The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-20
CHURCH AND CREED.
The Various Religious Services
to be Held To-day.
THE POPULARITY OF HERESY.
Popular Prejudice Against the Jews-Ckrlsti
anity il Judea-New Version Of
the Prodigal Son.

various places of worship to-day as follows
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATrER-DAY
SAINTs.-Salt Lake Stake of Zion, Angus N
Cannon, president; Joseph E. Taylor and
afternoon at o'clock.
ST. MARKS CATHEDRAL-Holy communion
at Z 80 a. IN. Sunday school at 9:45. Morning
service with sermon at II q. m. Bible class al
$50 p. m. Evening prayer and sermon at 7:3N
D. N. Prayers daily at 9:l5 am.
ST. PAUL's CHAPEL-Holy communion at II
am. Sunday school at 1880 pm. Evening
prayer and sermon at 7:3O pm.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,. Brain
ard Thrall, pastor. Morning service at II am.
Evening service at z;so P m PIP. Preaching at
1913 Young peoples meeting at $50 pm.
Seats free IT all services and strangers cordially
invited.
FIRST PREsBYTERIAN-Public worship at II
am: and preaching by the pastor, Rev. R. G.
NcNiece. Sabbath school at 1925. Young
peoples society at 6:3). Evening worship and
preaching by the pastor at go. Seats free at
all these services.
The ratio of the gain in converts in all the
Protestant missions in China during the
last decade is about one hundred and forty
per cent, and in Japan it is over three hun
dred per cent.
Christendom is required only to deposit
the leaven of Christianity in the mass Of
heathendom. 1t will diffuse itself by its
own law.-Nashville Christian ADVOCATE.
Words and phrases that belong to the
rhetoric of vulgarity and low slang, some
times heard in the Christian pulpit, are
there most grossly out of place. They fit
neither the place nor the theme. The
preacher who INDUCES in them ought not
to be excused, but sternly condemned
Independent.
A plan is under discussion in Episcopal
ial,, T,,I 20, foI@1, .h
ment of Christian university. The idea
is to build up an institution of the highest
grade, under the exclusive control of
Christians, in which the study of the Bible
will be required of all who attend and by
which degrees in divinity, as well as the
arts and sciences, shall be given. Interior.
In the whole history of the attempt to
civilize, educate and reclaim the Indians
one fact stands out pre- eminent 1t is that
the only way to get control of the red man,
to influence him really and permanently,
and to do anything at all in the way of
genuine lasting reform is to give him a re-
ligion, to awaken and inform his con-
science, to give proper direction to his ma
tIral religious sentiment, and to make a
good Christian of him. This done, he is,
perforce, good citizen.-CGthOlie RsUi6tp.
A great deal Of what we Hebrews call
popular prejudice against the Jew may be
due to our failure to populariZe Judaism.
Whose fault is it if not largely the Jews
that its universal elements are not recog-
nized at their proper value, and its ethical
beauty, simplicity, and world-embracing
| character do not lind more general acknoWl-
| edgelnent! The nations have been sore
taskmasters, it is true, but the Jew him
| self has often Stunted and Stifed Judaism.
| Yet the giants heart was always there, and
awaiting only Gods own time for the full
| F111
The Freemdns Journal Or. c. says:
| ''There is meaning in the name borne by
the true Catholic church. There would be
none in the assumption of such a title by
the Protestant EpiscOpalian sect. Their
clergy do not seem to grasp the primary
meaning of Christ's teaching. This is
forcibly illustrated by the rector of St.
Clements, on West Third street, who an
nounces theat he has discontinued his usual
Sunday evening services, and may prob
ably have to move his church away, be
cause of the wickedness in the neighbOr-
hood. Christ announced that His mission
was to sinners. No true ministerial SER
want of His would run away from those He
came to save"
The COngrsgationdliSt says it is not always
safe to appeal to human feelings as illus
trating the attitude of God towards men.
His revelation of himself shows how men
10 IGtl, DuG uldIi . IGNCldIlOu VI Hllu-
self cannot be confidently appealed to to
show how God feels. 1t enforces its teach
ings by this incident:
"a home missionary was preaching to a
frontier audience on the prodigal son.
After he had described the condition of the
son in rags among the swine, and had
started him on his return, as he began to
speak of the father coming to meet him
and ordering the fatted calf to be killed in
hopor nj q nrOdiCql'G return ba nntipo6 a
cowboy looking interested, and he deter
mined to make a personal appeal. Looking
directly at his hearer, the preacher said {:
NV son, what would you have done if you
had had q son returning home in such a
pIights' I'd have shot the boy and raised
the calf was the prompt reply"
CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA.
1t is the peculiar distinction of India tina:
it has been the theater Of four great re-
ligions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Moham-
mechanism and Christianity. The first
three have each had many centuries of OPP
portunity, and yet Christianity has done
more for the elevation of Indian society in
the last fifty years than during all the long
ages of their domination. Neither Budd-
hism nor MohammedaniSm made any seri
ious impression upon caste, neither was
able to mitigate the wrongs which had been
on women; MOhammedanism rather ag-
gravated them. The horrors of the suffice
and the murder of female infants, those
bitterest fruits of superstition, were left
unchecked until the British government
made them crimes. Even the native senti-
ment of India is now greatly changed, and
the general morality of the better classes
is raised above the teachings of their re,
Iligion.-Dr. Ellinwood, in Church at Homo
and abroad.
THE POPULARITY OF HERESY.
There are no disabilities for heresy in
these enlightened times, either civil, social
religious, political, or reputatiOnal. On the
contrary, it is the quickest route to great
ness. 1t is the short cut to renoWn and pop,
ularity. The modern hereto has all the
, glories of martyrdom without its suffer
ings If a man can only get up good
: heresy case nowadays his fortune is made
He need not be brilliant or profound, OF
scholarly, or eloquent, or specially attrac-
t ", but only now eccentric and heretical. A
man has only to declare himself an evolu.
ZIONIST, contradict the Mosaic account of the
creation ana the fall, deny that Moses
wrote the Pentateuch, affirm that the in
SEPARATION of Isaiah and Paul was the same
! in kind, and only different in degree, to that
of Shakespeare and Tennyson; affirm that
the incarnation and resurrection are moi
historic realities, but rhetorical draperie;
to illustrate the idea Of the indwelling Of
, God in man, and the rising of man into
new life. Let him do all these or any one
of them, and men viii throw their hats int
the air and shout themselves hoarse in hi.
Qualification. The newspapers at any ratt
will espouse his cause and advertise hin
gratituously all over the world. WhC
would not live in the nineteenth century
and be a heretic?-ChristiGH EvGngeliS
disciple.
Its Excellent Qualities