The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-13

The receipts of the American board for
the year Just closed were 1894 ,994 in dona-
tons, and S153, 653 in legacies.
The British Sunday-school union sug-
gests October 20 and 81, as the time for
prayer throughout the world for Sunday
schools.
| When culture. so called, increases, and
reverence declines among a people, it is
time to consider what sort of culture it
is.-Nashville Christian Adrocdte.
| The Moravians, though small in numbers
and wealth, have sent out during the last
century, q, 900 missionaries, and expended
$780, 900 yearly. They have nine mission
ships.
The constitution of the Society of Chris
tian Endeavor has been translated into
German, French, Tamil, Chinese. Japanese,
| Zulu, Turkish, and into various dialects Of
Southern India.
1t appears from the year book of the
Church of England that in 1873 the number
of persons confirmed in England was under
| 13S,000, while for 1888 the corresponding
total was over $4,000
Our Methodist Episcopal Mission in
Brazil has 346 members, Z ordained min
listers, 6 candidates for ordination, 3 local
and foreign missionary lady teachers.
Bishop Taylor has four laborers in Para,
Pernambuco, and Maranhao.-CentrdI
| Christian Advocate.
The appropriations Of tho American
Baptist Missionary union for the year
ending March 81, 1890, amounted to 1902, =
7S5.T. Much now work is provided for,
and the schedule is more clearly in accord
Ance with the estimates from the mission
aries than for many years.
Other qualities have in a measure set
| l.. b. bal ~ 81
| brilliancy and flash, eloquence, "hustling,"
after the manner Of the world, have too
largely taken the place Of the beauty Of
holiness as factors ia sur church life
g., ChrFsttHa Standard.
The number of Roman Catholics in Ire
land is 3,792, 457; the churches number
l2,47, and the priests 3,251. In England
the Catholic population numbers 1 1853, 465,
the priests 1910, and the churches 1,26l.
In Scotland there ars 30S,643 Catholics,
laos churches, and 800 priests.
No man, however confident he may be in
himself, can certainly tell, if reasoning
Of future and unknown temptations upon
him. Hence, Paul's advice is always in
order: Wherefore let him that thinketh
he standeth. take heed lest he fall" QI.
Cor Z, 19.)-Ths Independent.
A correspondents Of ths Je,ctsk Messenger
urges wealthy Jews TO make up . purse.
and buy Jerusalem from the Turks. It
might not be dif1culs to buy that parcel Of
real estate; but to bny Independence would
cost more than tho aggregate wealth Of the
Jews could purchase. The Turks of Jeru-
salem might sell city, but the Sublime
Porte would scarcely sell its sovereignty
Christian at Work.
Faith Is q manly quality; but faith is also
| pre- emiaently a Eomanly attribute. No
man can be- at his best without faith in
God: yet man without faith in God does
not always seem 90 incomplete and I'M
10 Jely sS woman without such faith
Even . man without faith In God would
perceive Woman's unwomanliness if she
were as destitute of faith as himself
SVnddV- School Times.
THE DEcADHNcB OF THE GUARANTEEING.
Methodism owed it's pristine strength to
the class-meeting. The device to secure
one result proved equal to all uses. 1t be
came the unit Of organization, the test and
stimulus Of piety, the assessor and collec-
tor of ecclesiastical funds. Nothing in
Methodism promised more, nothing yielded
half so much. But Methodism then was
Christianity in earnest. People having the
form, banded together to seek the power Of
godliness Grievously at fault, the erring
Methodist was amendable to discipline He
I DalQ the lEAQeE lib CUnLTIDublUu' anu
''ouit his meanness" ct one and the
same time All who bore the name were
fleeing from the wrath to come. They had
a wholesome dread of hell, and sturdy
purpose to avoid it by Gods help. The
class meeting was normal school where
the best methods Of overcoming evil were
discussed. AS long as the heart was
stirred, go long these meetings were full
! of attraction Of the cross. When love
| Foa in onH "a ysycrId
hid the cross, mon went to class for forms
| sake. bore false witness before the Lord,
lied TO one another in His name, and finally
| threw their oars into the boat, pillowed
| their heads on the cast-off garments of
righteousness, slept, and drifted. There
never comes an awakening but something
akin to the class meeting 10 demanded. It
is because we have lost the spirit, Of piety
that we have SO generally abandoned the
class. - Western Chrtstt1n Advocate
(Aeshodtst).
COMMERCE rs THE CHURCH.
Wehave not yet in English churches aud
chapels the plan adopted in certain popular
Brooklyn churches, where the pews are
ANNUALLY let by auction to the highest bid
ders: but the difference is only of degree,
not principle In an increasing number of
Nonconformist churches one uniform price
is charged for all seats alike. In others,
again, no regular traffic is fixed; each pew
holder issleft to assess himself. and to sub
scribe what he can afford for church ex-
penses But in almost all cases the allot-
ment of seats Is equally rigid. Is not this
state Of things unscriptural and unchris-
tian? It is difficult to read those scathing
words about the man with gold ring and
the goodly apparel getting front seat in
the vast assembly, while the poor man in
vile raiment was pushed in a corner to suit
his clothes, without feeling that St. James
would have made very short work with
pew-rents in the primitive church at Jeru-
salem. He, at any rate, had not forgotten