The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-16
AT THE CHURCHES.
The Various Religious Services
to be Held To-day.
ABOUT OYE-ARMED CHURCHES.
Spirituality and TheoIogy-The Protestant
Jewish Missionary SOcieties-Signs Of
Weakness and Decay.

Public services will be conducted in tie
various places of worship, to-day, as fol
lows:
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY
SAINTS.-SalJ Lake Stake OF Zion, Angus M.
Cannon president; Joseph f. Taylor and
Charles W. Penrose, counselors. Meeting this
afternoon at O'Clock.
ST MARKS CATHEDRAL-Holy communion
at 7:30am. Sunday school at 9:45 am. Morn
ing prayer, sermon and holy communion at II
am. Evening prayer at pm
METHODIST CHURCH.--No Al E. Third South
street. Preaching by the pastor, Kew Z. l..
Libby at IL am. and pm. Sunday School at
l2:15 pm. Young peoples meeting at pm.
Strangers cordially invited to attend all services
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.-Public wor-
ship at II am, and preaching by the Rev. w. II.
Clagett, the Presbyterian evangelist from st.
Louis Sabbath school at 1928 Young PEG
pies society at 6:35 At 80 the Rev. Mr.
Clagett will preach on ''SplrltuaLsn, from a
Bible Standpoint" Seats free at all these ser
vices, and the public invited.
ST PAUL's CHAPEL-Morning prayer and
sermon at II am. Sunday school at 1920 pm
Rev Mr.. Gilman will otficiate.
Last year there were reported forty
seven Protestant Jewish missionary
societies, and spending nearly S5OOOOO an
nually In the last half-dozen years the
work in this field has nearly doubled. The
100000. There is, then, one missionary
TO about 16, $40 Jews.-ReligiouS Herald.
Of the late Father Damien the Religious
Herald (COngregatiOnaD says: Another
father of the Roman Catholic church has
taken his place Let US remember this.
Amid all the superstitiOns and spectacular
contradictions to Christianity in that
church, it has on its records many of the
noblest examples of the spirit of true and
undetiled religion the world has ever wit
messed
Beginning with the seminary year
1SS9'90, the trustees of Hartford TheolO-
gical seminary have voted to open all
courses of instruction to women on the
same terms as to men. This action is taken
to meet the needs specially of women who
are DESTROYS of preparing themselves for
Christian teaching, for the missionary
field, and for any religious work other than
the pastoraJe.
The church is getting so old that she is
sterile, and sons are not being born into
the ministry in proportion to membership
as in the past. The old mothers in former
generations thought the greatest thing this
side the kingdom of heaven for woman to
do was to raise minister of Jesus Christ,
and to live to hear him preach. Many of
such have departed from the world, say
ing, Let thy servant depart in peace, for
mine eyes have seen thy salvation. The
Presbyterian.
Why is it that one Of the Oldest mission
airy organizations in the world should show
signs of weakness and decay. Here comes
limping along in half paralyZed sort of
way, the London Missionary society, bear
ing the record of nearly a centuTys 3p-
proved and divinely accepted labor, saving
that its regular receipts do not permit en-
'argement of its work; that $4,000 are
needed to meet its present actual needs, and
that an additional annual income is needed
to maintain the efficiency of its present
missions; while an extended work is left as
pleasant day dream for the future by such
as can work themselves up to it. What
does this mean!-New York Evangelist.
SPIRITUALITY AND THEOLOGY.
The distrust of creed, the WEAKNESS with
theology, which is so often and so vividiy
expressed in our own day. is at bottom
doubt whether God has really been to past
generations what we family hope that he
is to US, though it is often expressed as if,
by making light Of the story of the past,
we could somehow magnify the reality of
the present That surely is not so. Spir-
ituality implies full recognition Of what
God is to each human heart that fears and
hopes and suffers now; but that recOgni-
tion is hardly separable from the glad be
lief that ne has done for countless genera
tons of men all, and more than all, that he
Is DOING LOT uS-WC say more JHal all,
lust because the very fact that we
are beginning to observe this sense of
unreality'' in our faith, this aversion to
every form Of prayer in which our fathers
have poured forth their souls, this prefer
ence of vague natural beauty to the great
story of Christs passion, this nausea of
religious history, this intolerance of revela-
ton, this preference for eXalting emotions
which spring up in odd times and places,
and which ignore all the form and phrase
ology of our ancestors, proves that we are
less capable than our forefathers of realiz-
ing that God is the same yesterday, today,
and forever-and that he at least does not
dwindle when faith declines, any more
than he grows when faith Increases
London Spectator.
ONE-ARMED CHURCHES.
Certain churches have been very appro-
priately described as "one-armed
chur hes" They are not useless by any
means, but they accomplish only half they
might if they were two-armed and ambi-
dextrous. These one-armed churches usu