The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-31
At THE CHURCHES.
The Origin and Meaning Of the
Word Christian.
GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF NAN.
The Oldest Minister of the Gospsl-The Lenten
Season-MethOdism in New England
Divine Services Held To-day.

Public services will be conducted in the
various places of worship, to-day, as fol
lows:
-CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY
SAINTS-Salt Lake Stake of Zion, Angus Nj.
Cannon, president; Joseph E. Taylor and
Charles W. Penrose counselors. Meeting this
afternoon at 2 O'Clock.
FIRST PRRsBYTBRIAN--Publ worship at II
am. and preaching by the pastor r. G. Nc
Niece. Sabbath school at 1925. Young Peo-
PIES Society of Christian Endeayor at 6:sA.
No preaching service in the evening.
ST. MARKS CATHRDRAL-Holy communion at
am. Morning prayer ltany and sermon at
II am. Sunday school at 2:45 pm. Evening
prayer and instruction at $3.50 pm. Bible class
at $50 pm. Evening prayer and sermon 1t 7.3O
pm.
FIRST UNCONVENTIONAL CHURCH.-The Rev.
| J. Brainard Thrall, pastor. Public worship with
sermon by the pastor at Ii am. Sunday
school at 1918. Young Peoples Society of
Christian Endeavor at JPN. Seats free at all
services, and public cordially invited.
METHODIST CHURCH-No. Al E. Third South
street; Rev C. L. Libby, pastor Preaching at
II am. and 80 pm. by the pastor. Sunday
school at 1918 pm: Young peoples meeting
at 6:l5 pm. Subject of evening discourse;
| Are the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and
Covenants from God:" MOrmonS especially
invited.
CHARLES ELLIS will lecture in the Federal
court room this evening, at So'clock. Subject:
The Revival of Religion that Utah Needs"
Mr. John D. Rockefeller has just given
$1,000 OO to the American Baptist education
society for educational work in the United
States payable $4,000 each month, begin
ing with March and ending with December
next
| The London missionary society, with only
thirty English missionaries at Madagascar,
reports the astounding numbeTof S2S native
ordained ministers and 4, 1876 native preach
ers, with $1,000 church-members and
230,0 900 "adherents.n
It is just one hundred years since the in
PRODUCTION of Methodism into New England.
Jesse Lee had the distinction of having
been the first circuit preacher, and bronze
equestrian statue on the site Of the old
apple tree at Norwalk where he held his
first meeting, is proposed
''The Baptist Yearbook for 1889 makes
the following showing for the past year:
Total number of associations, 1,312,
ordained ministers, q, APO; churches, %, 900;
baptisms, 134, 5J3; received by letter, IS, 923;
by restoration, 10000; by experience, 9,406.
Losses: BY letter, Il ASP; by exclusion,
81, S43; by erasure 1868; by death, 25,639.
Total membership, 1887, 194, gain over
last year Of SO,479.
The latest statistics of the China mis-
siOns, carefully collated, are found in the
Chinese Recorder for January 1889. The
total of foreign missiOnaries-men, wives,
and unmarried WOmen-is l, 123, an increase
of 90; navtive ordained ministers, 1872; I'M
ordained native helpers, 1,27S; cOmmuni-
cantS, "a, 555. an increase Of :, 295; pupils in
schools, "A, Sl7, an increase of l, $40; cOntri-
buttons by native churches, SD, l13, an in
crease of 1896.
Personally, we do not observe the Lenten
! 4
We have no quarrel with any one in respect
to days and meats" We allow every man
to be ''fully persuaded in his own mind If
any Methodist desires to observe it, we in
terpOse no objection; but in the name of
Christ we protest against the ridiculous
habit of society people" observing 1t simply
because they are tired OUT and need rest
and recuperation to fit them for the next
seasons ssipations.-CiriStiGn Advocate
(MethOdisD.
The Oldest minister of the gospel in active
service is the Rev. William Stoddart, of the
parish of Moderty, in Scotland. The bap-
tismal register shows that he was baptized
on the 29th of March, 1871, and is now in hif
one hundred and second year. Father
Stoddart walks about a mile to his preach
ing service every Sunday, with buoyant
step, and breaches sermon of about an
hours length, discharges, unaided, all his
pastoral duties, and is amost efficient chair
man of the county school bOard.-Church of
To-day.
Prof. Newberry, of Columbia college, in
his recent lecture on the Geographical
History Of Man, said that though there
Twas great difference Of opinion among
scientific men as to the date Of mans APP
pearance on the earth, it was generally ad-
mitted that he was present at the close of
the glacial period, and that a greater an
tiquity was reasonably argued. OF course
this statement gives peculiar interest to the
date of the glacial period, and which the
lecturer said was placed by the scientists at
the distance of 800, 900 and 100000 and $4,000
years. He did not think that it could have
been later than IL, 200 years ago. Old Arch
bishop Usher is likely to hold on to his
figures with considerable tenacity until the
scientists come a little nearer together than
the difference between 5000 and 100000
years.-New York Observer
THE NAME CHRISTIAN.
The disciplesswere called Christians first
in Antioch, so we are told in Acts TX, 26,
and most commentators and readers regard
the name as given in contempt or riducule
to the followers of the blessed Savior. Be
fore this they had been known by other
names-disciples, for their knowledge; be-
levers, for their faith; brethren, for their
love to each other and to Christ; witnesses,
for their faithful testimony to the truth:
saints, for their holiness, as sanctifed
through the truth and by the Holy Spirit,
and the faithful for their trust in and their
unwavering allegiance to the Savior. And
all these names are recognized by Christ
himself, or directly by the word of inspira-
ton. What, then, is the origin of the name,
and what is its meaning? AS already said,
it is the common impression that the name
was given in reprOach by the opposers and
enemies of the new faith, in the endeavor,
by ridicule or contempt, to cast discredit on
the new doctrine and its recipients. This,
however, can hardly have been the case,
for though their enemies, as we know,
stigmatized them as 'Nazarenes' and "Gal-
ileans,'' it is nowhere said that they gave
them any other name: and it is scarcely
probable that the church would so readily
have assumed and so willingly have kept
name which had been given to its members
only in contempt and derision. 1t is far
more reasonable to suppose that the name
was divinely given, forever to associate the
followers Of Christ with his own blessed
name. And the Greek word translated
''were called" makes it almost absolutely
certain that this was the case. Nine times
in the New Testament that word is used in
its form as a verb, and once as a noun; and
in every one ofnthese cases it signifies a
command or direction, coming as a message
from God himself, as when the wise men
were warned of God not to return to Herod;
and Joseph, being warned Of God, turned
aside into Galilee; and Cornelius, beirg
warned of God, sent for Peter; and Moses,