The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-03
AT THE CHURCHES.
The Various Religious Services to
Be Held To-day.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND MEMBERSHIP
The Effects of the Salvation Army Alleged to
Be Beneficial---Church Charities---The
Methodist piscopals---0ther Notes.
Public worship will be conducted in the
various churches today as follows:


Cannon, president; Joseph E. Taylor and
Charles w. Penrose, counselors. Conference OF
the Salt Lake Stake of Zion conveneS this morn
ing at 10 o'clock.
ST Marks CATHEDRAL.-Holy Communion at
S am. Morning prayer at 9:45 am. Litany
sermon and holy communion at II am. SUNDAY
school at 2:45 pm. Evening prayer and INSTRUCT
tion at $3.50 pm. Bible class at 6:3O pm Eve
ming prayer and sermon at G.30 pm.
METHODIST CHURCH-C. L. Libby, pastor.
Preaching at II am. by Bishop II. w. Warren
D. D., of Denver. Sunday school at 1918 pm.
Young peoples meeting at 6:15 pm. Preaching
at $50 pm.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.-The Rev
j. Brainard Thrall pastor. Public worship with
sermon by the pastor, followed by communion
at IL am. Sunday school at 12:l5. Society Of
Christian Endeavor at pm. Seats free at all
services and public cordially invited.
CHARLES ELLIS of Boston, Mass will give
free lecture in the Federal Court room this eve
ming, at O'Clock. The subject is THE Golden
Age"
The New York city Comptroller in answer
to a resolution of the Albany Assembly re-
quiring information as to the distribution
of public charities in this city, has made
report which shows that out of the total
81 81, S37S7, while Hebrew institutions re
ceive SlG6, $500, and Protestant, S516, 004.S0,
the Roman Catholics are allotted the quite
disproportionate modicum of S9SS, S779S.
These startling figures, according to a well
used phrase, ''speak for themselves" and
speak good deal-among other things re-
minding us that New York may some day
become merely feoff of 1.-THE Holy Roman
Empire Is it time to ponder the warning
of Caiaphas THE NeW York ChurcimGn.
One hundred and twenty missionaries in
China represent twenty-one Protestant
societies.
The Province of Quebec having granted
property to the value of 100000 to the Jes
uits on an cid claim, vigorous protests are
being made against 1t as dangerous
precedent.
The Chinese Sunday-school, numbering
one hundred men, which is connected with
DR.. A. j. Gordon's Clarendon-street Bap-
list church in Boston, Mass, has voted TO
support three native missionaries in China.
The net gain of new churches in the
United States during the year 1855 was
6,434; the increase in the number of minis
ters was 4,505, while the increasein church
members was IA, SCI. The average gain
for each day Of the year was II churches,
y ministers, anG 2, 100 members.
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
The Church of England is an immense
ecclesiastical establishment. 1t has nearly
10000 churches in England, besides the
great abbeyS, caJhedrals, and ancient col
legiate churches. There are about $4,000
clergymen The church going population is
for whom about {, 100000 sittings are avail
able There are 80 bishops, of whom Is
have cathedrals with deans and chapters;
have cathedrals without chapters, being
newly-created bishoprics within the last
few years. The original number of "a Dish
ops sit in the House Of Lords as spiritual
peers. the prevailing opinion being against
any increase. There are about IL, 200 par
ishes, with old or restored or rebuilt parish
churches. of which S,467 were founded be-
fore A D. 1850. The extent Of the state
patronage is shown by the striking fact that
S,02S Of these parishes are in lay patronage,
4 257 in ecclesiastical patronage, and only
1850 in royal patronage. The revenue Of
the church is not easy to estimate accurately.
Much of its settled income is derived from
land according TO its letting value, and this
not only varies. but for the last fifteen years
has greatly decreased. The total proceeds
from all rces-endowmentS, title, glebe,
T mt value of residences, pew rents and
church fees-is said TO reach nearly So, OOO,
COO. But it is quite certain that the clergy,
all told, do not receive more than SO 100000,
if so much. The church houses and lands
are not to be recl1oned as productive II gen
eral. The fiuctuatiOn of good and bad times
affects the clergyman as much as the com
merci2l man. and IN bad times voluntary Oh
ferings fall off, too. The bishops, deans,
and what we may term their cathedral
stats, receive fixed legal stipends aggregat-
ing s., 765. 900. Taking the high estimate q
S2O.O0O,000 as the aggregate stpends Of the
clergy including assistant ministers, 1t
would give an average Of 81, l4O to each.
But this is probably an excessive estimate.
While some receive large salaries, many
rectors and many incumbents receive as
low as $500 or even $500 per annUm. Of
course those are increased by pew rents
and gifts. These large endoWmentS have
been the growth of centuries, some by pur-
chase, but mostly as free gifts.-PresbBteridn
Banner.
The forces of Great Britain, Continental
Europe and the United States have an an
nual income Of 1886, 1886, man and equip
$3.50 stations, support 5,43l missionaries,
have the assistance of 81, O15 native helpers,
and mission churches that have 5SS, 9I4 com
municants anal, $40 655 adherents.
. The statistical report, as given in the
Annual Methodist Episcopal Yearbook,
shows: Annual conferences, no; Inherent
preachers, IA, 1876; local preachers, IA, 1872;
Law members, ,, 093, 935; number of Sunday
school scholars, 2.Ol6,lS1; value of church
property, $50, So, 1872; value of parsonages,
$12, 90S, 047. Total value Of church property,
1913, 40, $50.
We read in the papers every day about
ssEpiscopalian nuns" and Methodist sis
ters'' establishing houses in this country,
but the general public have no ldea OF the
MAGNITUDE of the movement and Its RAPID
growth. Statistics taken last year, and
inst published in Germany, show that the
Protestant churches have at present fifty
seven homes, with 1929 sisters, of whom
.. 593 are on probation. This represents
gain of l 400 in four years. These sisters
have been employed in 2,263 places, gain
of over 500 in four years. OF these houses
thirty-two are in Germany, where the
movement originated, with 5,452 sisters,
laboring at SD places.-Frccndn'S Journal
(CGttOLic.)
Whatever may be thought of the theology
of the Salvation Army or its peculiar
methods, it will not be denied that taken
all in all, its influence has been beneficial.
Anything which tends to raise the moral
average of a great city-tO keep men and
women clearly, sober, decent, and Well-be-
have something of good in 1t;
and this the Salvation Army has most GER
tainly done in many places. 1t is freely
admitted that in the east end of London its
labors have caused a marked decrease in
crime, and more especially in that brutality
which finds its usual expression among the
lower orders in London in wife-beating;
and if an organization can effect reform
in this particular, where all other agencies
have failed, we can well afford to put up
with what 30 US are disagreeable features
of its method of operations.-Sdn Francisco
Chronicle.
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