The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-04

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-The Rev.
!. Brainard Thrall, pastor. Public worship with
sermon by the pastor at II am. Sunday
school at 1918 Y p. S. C. f. omitted during
August Seats free and public welcomed.
ST. Marks CATHEDRAL-HOly communion
NJ 7:3O Il. m. moCning prayer and baptism at
g:4j a. m: litany sermon and holy communion
With ordination at II a. m; evening prayer at Z
nm.
ON account of the ordination there will be no
service at st. Pauls to-day.
New York city has 600 Sunday schools,
IL, 900 scholars and IL, 900 teachers.
The American Tract society's report
shows that it expended Sl23, l65 last year
In Canada there are: Sunday-schools,
$685.; scholars, 467, 292; teachers, $1,000;
total, 522, 342.
Iutherans in the United States number
l,OS7, $40, and have 1910 congregations and
45l0 ministers.
During the past fifteen months the Ameri-
can board at the japan mission has regis
tered 9, S67 converts.
No amount of praise for the dead can
atone for lack of kindness to the living.
Better give the old folks less tombstone
and more blankets.-Dr. T. Dewitt Tai
mage.
in all this we do notmean to depreciate
a the least the, excellent work of Father
Damien. but only to show that his work was
Protestants of the Hawaiian Islands,
In the sixty five years of its existence
the American Sunday School union has
organized more than 81, 900 Sunday-schools,
anu gathered in 600, 900 scholars and teach
srs. 1t has been organizing on an average
four Sunday-schools every day.
The Hebrews will not take part in the
celebration of the four-hundredth ami
yarsary of the discovery OF America, which
: to take place in 1892. This is the decision
If the Hebrew union convention that
recently met in Detroit. The decision is
based upon a tradition of the eastern Heb
rayys. particularly those of New York, that
my celebration in which they take part
must be of decidedly Jewish church char
auter
The Dunkards at their late convention
yassed some remarkable resolutions. One
was in favor of prohibition, but advising
against engaging in public agitation OF the
subject: another was against the sending
Of female representatives to annual meet
inCs; another prohibited the election and in
St0llation of deacOns who use tobacco; and
another declared that it is not right for the
brethren TO rise when requests are made
IN the meetings of other denominations for
those vino are Christians to rise. The
Dunkards are 4 staunch and reliable,
though peculiar Christian sect.-ChifSttdn
advocate.
Concerning the Sandwich Island lepers
the INDEPENDENT now says: 1T is true that
the Catholic lepers were neglected, religl-
ously. until Father Damien so nobly vol
unteered to take up this work; but the
larger body of Protestant lepers were not
and never have been neglected. At pre-
sent the pastor of the Protestant church
IS not a leper but has joined the colony
with his wife, who has contracted the de-
Sease. The physical wants of all have
been well provided for by the devoted
superintendent appointed by the Govern
ment.
The Christian Advocate (NIeth.) says: GAS
10 the length of vacations, the tendency is
70 make them too long for the good Of
churches or for the highest good OF minis
ters, morally, spiritually, or physically: 1t
is well for every church to offer ITS MINIS
ter q few weeks vacation. 1t will make
MIN better and do them no harm; but let
the Sabbath services, the prayer meetings,
and the Sabbath schools be maintained,
and let arrangements be made by the
church. with the cooperation Of the pastor,
TO secure pastoral work Then there will
ba no occasion TO criticise adversely the
pastors when they go out, as our Lord did,
INTO a desert place to rest awhile
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES"
Mr. Huxley is not believer in Chris
,ianity, and therefore does not accept the
Bible as an inspired book. But unlike
many of his class, herecognizes the value
Of the Bible as literature, and is fully SEN
sible of the fact that no one can be called
4 literally educated man who IS Ignorant |
of the book that has so profoundly intu- |
snced the development of society and the |
character of millions of people. He there !
fore strongly advocates the reading of the |
Bible and insists upon "the diffusion OF |
the study of that most remarkable collec- |
ton of books among the people" Mr., |
Huxley's commentator is a little patroniz- |
ing, but one can forgive that. There is |
nothing that is less likely to swell the |
ranks of agnostics and unbelievers than |
the careful study of the Bible. Most of |
chose who reject the authority Of the |
Scriptures do so in pure ignorance Of their |
contents and quality.-NeC York Examiner |
(Bdptist).
UNREASONABLE PETITIONS.
A great many people seem to think that |
IL they pray for what they want the Lord |
is bound 10 grant their petitions. They |
do not always allow him the liberty of judg- |
ment which they would not think of deny |
ing to any human friend, and his failure |
or delay to respond as they wish annoys |
them. But great many petitions do not |
merit the expected answer. Often no an
sWer at all is deserved. Many of our pray
ers are as unreasonable as the demand of
little child to be allowed razor, or a dy-
r.arnite cartridge, for a plaything Still
others pay no need to the divine under
standing Of the fitness of things, and plead
FOR the Immediate accomplishment of what
requires along time to bring to pass; as
when we pray for change of character in
a friend, and are distressed because no i'm
mediate transformation is witnessed. Many
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in a wrong spirit. Such would have been
those in the test case proposed a few
years ago by famous scientist, IN which
II we recall the scheme-the number of
cures in a hospital where the patients
were to be prayed for was to be compared
with that of cures in another hospital for
whose inmates no prayer was to be offered
Petitions offered merely with purpose
70 test God mechanically, and in temper
Of rivalry, can not be expected to be heard,
and the proposition very properly was
refused. An unreasonable petition has no
more reason to expect favorable answer
than when made to fellew man, except,
possibly, in view of the fact that Gods
compassionate forbearance is unspeakably
greater than that Of man. He who
would receive the desired response to his
petitions must take care that they are
reasonable and right, must draw near to God
humbly and revsrently, must defer cheer
fully to the div ne wisdom, and must APP
Dreciate the great privilege of holding
with the Almighty at all, apart
from possible benefits to be gained.-The
Congre0dttOndlist.
Judge POuers has earned s., 900 per year for
fftesn gears What has Judge Pol0ers got to
,lol0 for $4,000?
Oh. What a Cough.