The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-17


: Rome. There are tWenty-siX III Bombay.
The American board is urgently calling
for thirty-twO missionary families and
twenty-nine women for their various mis-
sion fields.
The church on the little island of Atafu,
in the South Sea Islands, includes all the
adults on the island Not one remains III
the service of Satan.
Bishop Hurst says that 229 newspapers
are now published in Mexico-seventy-t two
in the capital and 157 in the provinces. OF
these, six are published by Protestants.
Rev. He'll Chatelaine, one of Bishop Tay-
lor's missionaries, is in Switzerland pre-
pairing books in the Kimbunder language.
He has already translated the gospel of
John.
When DIR. S. Wells Williams arrived in
Canton in 1888, there was only one Chinese
convert, and the penalty for teaching for
eigners the Chinese language was death.
a Now there are 33, 900 converts.
The receipts from donations for the first
five months of the financial year of the
American board are about $500 less than
those for the corresponding months OF the
preceding year, and the receipts from leg
acies are about 81, 200 less; so that the total
receipts fall short by over $4,000.
Preach the gospel, enter into the expert
euce of the Christian life, and practice the
principles of this religion, and no other
answer to atheistic and intidel arguments
viii be needed. By so doing the ignorance
of foolish men will be put to silence.-NeC
York Christian Advocate.
Since the organization of the Children's
Aid society it has picked up out of the
street 5000 boys, given them wholesome,
moral training, and found homes for them,
mostly in the country, where they acquired
habits of industry, economy, and self-sup-
porting thrift. Many a man of intelligence
and upright character will look back in ma
ture years, to this agency with profound
gratitude for his life of prosperity and use
fulness.
The will of the late Mrs Amelia Kerr, Of
New York, bequeaths about $4,000 to
various benevolent religious, and ed
vocational societies Those receiving the
largest sums are: The Lincoln University
of Oxford, Pa, SIS, 600 to found a Henry
A. Kerr professorship; the Presbyterian
board of relief for disabled ministers,
$4,000: the board of missions for freed
men of the Presbyterian church in the
United States, $4,000; the Presbyterian
board of home missions, $4,000; the Union
Theological Seminary, $4,000.
Bishop William Taylor has preached the
gospel in every continent on the globe, and
in many of the islands of the sea. He is
one Of the most unique personalities of the
nineteenth century. In 1862 he went to
England, ireland, and Palestine. Then
Australia and Tasmania were visited, in an
evangelistic tour, lasting nearly three years.
In 1865 he first entered Africa, and labored
in Cape Colony, Natal Colony, and Catfra-
ria where multitudes of foreigners and
natives were converted by his preaching.
In 1870 he went to India, and in 1871 he
began his self-supporting work there, which
has developed into the South India Confer
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chain of churches and mission stations in
South America.-MGil and Express.
Under I head Of ''Pharisees Wanted, "
the Evangelist (Pres) says: 1.-The real
Pharisee of our Lords parable is almost
the rarest of men. The publican who holds
that, bad as he is, he is as good as the rest,
and so is content to stand up rather than to
kneel and confess, is altogether too album
dant, and infinitely to be feared. He it is
who teaches our youth to despise genuine
goodness by parading the false, and calling
that the standard And if an honest, up
right, benevolent man, the Pharisee of
scripture, should stand up now, he would
so tower over much modern morality as to
help rather than hinder his own cOmplac-
ency. The great need now is to put the
publican out of the place of the Pharisee;
to make him stand afar off, so that his con-
fessiOn shall not seem so much like boast
ing Of his wickedness; to make him really
ashamed of his public sin and private i'm
purity. For a man is lost to God and lost
to himself who can confess his sins and still
be proud"
The Frecmdn's Journal Or. c. says: "The
position of fanatics who attempt TO inter
fere with the work of Catholic education is
as ridiculous when tried by the tradition of
constitutionality, so to speak, as by its let
ter. A reference to history will show that
the men who laid the foundations on which
Is reared the public school of to-day, we do
not say the originatOrs of the system, were
firmly fixed in the conviction that religion
in the school is of as great Importance to
the state as the imparting of merely secular
knowledge. Winthrop, in his history of
Massachusetts, says that the founders of
that state believed it essential to the well
being Of the commonwealth that there
should be schools TO teach the science OF
learning morals, and religion On that
basis were established those schools OF
theirs which were the precedent for all the
state schools In our country.
'In what darkness Of understanding must
not these malevolent spirits grope when
they threaten Catholics for adherence to
principles strenuously maintained by their
own revered pGtreS pdtriOe. Having, at the
outset, adopted cry of patriotism and con-
stitutionality, they are now found adVoca-
ting ideas both unpatriotic and unconsti-
The Nashville Christian Advocate (Meth.)
quite agrees with the Roman Catholic view
of the common school system. 1t says: ut
is agreed among Christians that Christian
education, distinctively such, is necessity.
Secular schools do not and cannot meet all
the needs of education in our country. This
the Christian conscience and Judgment
universally affirm and maintain. 1t is gen
orally agreed also that Christian education
means UNCONVENTIONAL education. The
Christianity that is not UNCONVENTIONAL in
this country is hard to find, and when found
does not amount to much.
"All the churches have practically settled
the question for themselves that they will
have their own schools. Education is in
this country universally recognized as
function of the Christian church. There
will be no retrogression on this line On
the contrary, the conviction is deepening
that the church must do more than 1t has
ever done for Christian education. The
more fully the subject is canvassed the
more urgent does this necessity appear"
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