The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-03
Religious Services at the Various
Churches To-day.
THE THEORY OF PESSIMIsM.
The CreduIity OF the IncredUlous - The
Sunday Closing ldea-The Relics
of the True Cross.

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ST. PAUL's CHAPEL-Holy communion at Il
am. Morning prayer and sermon at II 4. m
Sunday school at 1890 pm. Evening prayer
and sermon al 7:30 pm.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-West,
Third South street. near Main. Brainerd Thran
pastor. Morning service, with communion, al
II. Evening service at 7:3O. Subject OF both
services: Familiar Hymns and lynn Writer'S u
| Sunday school 1T l2:i5 pm. Young peoples
meeting at 800 pm. Seats are free and stran
gers cordially invited.
REoRGANIZEp CHuRCH-Meeting at the
chapel, on Second South street. Sacrament
meeting at pm. Preaching in the evening by
President Joseph Smith, a. Z 30. AL are invited
Seats free.
| FIRST PREsBYTERIAN-Public worship at II
q m. and preaching by tbs pastor, Rev. r. &.
| McNiece. Sabbath school at 12:25. Young
peoples society 1T 500. Evening worship and
/ preaching by the pastor al 30. Seats free at
all these services.
METHODIST CHURCH-4t East, Third South
street Glass meeting at 10 q. m. Preaching at
/ IL am. and 1880 pm by the pastor, Rev. G. l..
Libby. Sunday school at 1918 pm. Young
peoples meeting at $50 pm. A cordial invita-
| ton to all.
| The issues from the Bible House during
the month of September were sc, 052 copies
issues since April l, 457, 069 volumes.
The net gain of Baptists last year was
! l06,94 members, according to their statis-
| tics; of Presbyterians, 43.42S; of Metho-
dists. 24,362; Congregationalists, 1904;
Episcopalians, 1857.
Is it not little singular that no one ever
speaks of DR.. Spurgeon; that Henry Ward
Beecher was never thus titled; and that it
/ is enough to say Phillips Brooks! Is it true
that men may be too large for the doctrate!
-ZiOn'S Herald.
| The relics OF the true cross having be-
come very rare, the holy father has just
recommended the bishops to leave to their
successors those which they possess, and
that they wear them on their neck rs a
privilege Of their dignity.-FTecmGn'S
Journal.
All thoughtful men are observing that
the decay Of public virtues goes hand in
hand with the increase OF skepticism and
infdelity. We have lost something our
fathers had-and that something is the
manhood and steady uprightness which
springs from sound Christian principles
Pittsburg Catholic.
Twelve hundred St. Petersburg mer-
chants have declared themselves willing TO
close their places of business on Sunday,
with Il view OF keeping the day as IL is
understood in the United States and Great
( Britain. The movement can not succeed.
/ The Greek church compels cessation OF
work in whole or part on more than seventy
man made holidays. Until this is reformed
the people will have to work on Sunday
! Christian AdU0odte.
The theory Of pessimism is that the devil
! practically rules this world, and hence
that things are steadily going from bad to
worse. The theory of optimism is that
! God rules the world, and that under his
rule things are going from bad to good and
from good to better. One is the theory
of gloom and despair, and the other that of
| 10Y and hope. We very much prefer the
latter, ana think that facts prove its truth.
The Independent.
The various conferences in the interest
Of religious and moral reforms now being
held are certainly ominous. The great
assembly represented by persons OF all
ranks and denominations which has just
finished It's deliberations at Lake Mohonk,
seeking to benefit the condition of Ameri-
can Indians, is an example of how much
more effective the oneness would be in all
Christian work if the church We're unit
III the sight and estimate Of the world 8
Judgment Church Union.
Theological fashions change as do fash
ions in dress, but the changes effect only
the outward garb, not the inner substance.
| We cast the old truths in new mods, we
clothe them with new forms of expression,
we see them from a different angle OF
vision, but they are the same old truths,
alter the proportions, we may vary the
emphasis, IL conformity to present views
OF the teachings Of the Scriptures, but we
give up nothing that is contained in that
revelation Of Gods will and purpose.-The
Examiner.
THE::CRRDULITY OF THE INCREDULoUs.
The current type of infdelity is agnosti-
cism. The agnostic processes uncertainty
about everything that can not be definitely
proved. He reproaches the Christian for
his credulous acceptance of mythical tales
and unhstoric writings. He is the man
that sticks to facts, that refuses to be led
by the imagination or the feelings, but &C
cepts the guidance of reason alone. These
be brave words but will they bear eXamin-
ationi They will not as Il single instance
will show. There is probably not an agnos-
tic who is not firm and even an enthu5
iasUc believer in the theory Of evolution
and especially in the DarWlnian theory OF
the descent OF man from the anthropoiG
apes. Now, this is theory regarding the
origin of the universe, and of man in par
ticular, of which the most that is or can be
claimed for it, by It's sober advocates, il
that it is probably true. On how slight 1
basis OF evidence the Dlrwiniau POUNDS his
faith may be appreciated when we consider
the testimony OF so great a man OF science
as Professor Virchow, the German
biologist He has no superior in his
specially, and that specially has led hin
carefully to examine the evidence in regard
20 the origin of man. His declaration
made anew in recent address before ar
anthrOpoiogical congress in Vienna, is thai
science has as yet no trustworthy word tC
speak on the subject. All that science car
safely affirm is that in the course of five
thousand years 10 change in the human
type worthy mention has taken place
Every living race is distinctly human, a.
distinguished from simian or semi-simian
Professor VirchoW has made acomparativt
denomination of nearly every skull of pre-
historic man yet discovered. 1.-The result
has BEEN" he says, that we have certainly
met with opposite characteristics among
various races; but Of all these there is no
one that lies outside the boundaries of oul
present population" In other words
among men still living, and admitted by Al
10 be distinctly human, there found skulls
corresponding to the types of every pre-
historic skull yet discovered 1t follows
that these skulls prove nothing regarding
the descent of man that is not proved b!
living man-whlch is exactly nothing at all
The intermediate stages between thu
lowest man and the highest ape are still Il
be found before the two can be connected
with any ;how of probability. Surely TIT
faith that can bridge this gap-that cal
even t eat the gap as non existeut-is Al
robust az any that is required by tn
Scriptures.-N. Y. Examiner (Baptist).