The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-26

Public services viii be conducted in the
various places of worship, to-day, as fol
lows:
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAl
SAINTs.-Salt Lake Stake Of Zion, Angus NJ
Cannon, president; Joseph E. Taylor ant
Charles W. Penrose, counselors Meeting thu
afternoon at O'Clock.
ST. MARKS CATHEDRAL.-Holy communion
at 7:30 am. Sunday school, 9:45 a IN. Mornlni
prayer and sermon, II am. Bible class, 6:S
pm. Evening prayer and sermon, 80 p m. Tn
evening service will be particularly for meT
under the auspices OF the Gullo OF the iron cross
Addresses will be made by the bishop ant
others.
ST. PAUL's CHAPEL.-Morning prayer anC
sermon, II am. Sunday school, 1879 pm
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.-The Rev
J. Brainard Thrall pastor. Public worship witt
sermon by the pastor al II am. Sunday schOo
at 12:15. Young peoples meeting at 6 pm
Seats free at all services and strangers cordi-
ally welcomed
METHODIST CHURCH.-No. Al E. Third South
street. Rev. C. L. Libby, pastor. Preaching
pm. Young peoples meeting ut $50 pm.
No evening service. The pastor breaches q
memorial sermon in the G. A. r. hah at pm.
CHARLES ELLIS lectures in Temple of Honor
hall this evening, on Robert Elsmere,' This
will be Mr.. Ellis last lecture here at present
and it will not be reported.
It's said that the Friends have 40 mis-
sionaries in Japan under their care. They
are also doing missionary work in Constan
tinople, Roumania, and on Mt. Lebanon,
and in ROumelia, Madagascar, Zululand-
India and China.
There is only one Lutheran church in
Switzerland; it is found in French-speak-
ing Geneva, Calvin's city, but is composed
of German tradesmen settled there; and
her pastors reports to the Supreme Com
sistory at Berlin. The membership is 600
Christian at Work. 9
According to an English authority a sue
cessful evangelical missionary among the
Jews must possess Abraham's faith, Jobs
patience, Moses's meekness, Samson
strength, Solomon'S wisdom, St. Peters
courage, St. Johns love, and ROtkschild's
money-JelriSh Messenger.
The British and Foreign Bible society
reports that the sacred scriptures were last
year translated into six fresh languages.
The number of tongues in which this
society now publishes the Bible is thuS in
creased to 300. Fifty years agoit was pub
lished in $50 tongues The society dis
tributed 4,206, 900 volumes during the year.
Christianity needs no defense. Il IS self
evident truth, holy, serene, calm, immut-
able; or it is deIuSion that must ever thWGrt
intelligence while the myster of life fills
heart and soul with intense longings for
the fulfillment CT sublime hopes, and the
fruition of ideal Saith. In either case the
believer can but preach the word as il
stands, believing, presenting the character
of Christ as it is revealed IN the gospels,
trusting. Defense is out of the question
Chicago IRter-OcedsR-
Up in Canada committees Of tie repre-
sentative church OF England Methodist,
and Presbyterian clergyman and laymen-
heads of colleges, members of parliament,
Judges, editors, etc.-haye actually met and
CO ferred. On the motion of the Presby-
terrain moderator, seconded by the Meth
Odist general superintendent, the bishop OF
Toronto was voted into the chair. One OF
the principal topics considered was the
amount of unity in doctrine, worship, and
modes of action already existing. So well
pleased were the distinguished men IN at
tendance with the results of this first con
ference that they voted to ask their respec,
tive bodies to make provisions Tor another
Hartford COlrGHt.
Much interest has, been taken in the
movement for union between the Presby-
terrain and Congregational churches IN Japan
The missions of the northern and southern
churches are already united. An agree
ment among themselves was reached last
November, but the COngTegati9nahsts were
restrained from action by formal objection
of their brethren in this country. This op
position came especially from the American
board of missions, into whose treasury
thousands of dollars from PresbyterianS
have been poured annually for many years
The subject is to be taken up again IL
Japan this month, with some modification:
of the proposed plan of union. II seem:
highly probable that the union will be &C
pomnliShed The Mid Continent
The Jclrish Messenger says; ''In our cen
tury, when such ugly charges Of material
ism are raised against its character, such ;
life as Damien's, with the knowledge tina
he is but one of thousands who almos
equal him IN resOlute spirit and humans
impulse. is sufficient refutal. We are no
all called to pay the rites to u few hundred
lepers in the Sandwich islands But whel
we contemplate what profound conviction
was Father Damien's creed, and what
| loving service his ministry to sutferin
men and women, how ineffably unrehgiou
is the religion of most of US, which content
itself with stated appearances in the cost
tabernacle and formal hymns and prayers
| when the only kind of response, perhaps
that reaches the Diety is the response W
make to the calls for loving service that H
scatters around us on every size, whateve
the class or creedn'
The Christian Leader Univ. says: "Bisho
| Potter's address at St. Pau's church ma
been much discussed. Evidently he sal
something out of the usual vein OF annivel
sary eloquence. What he did say was tina
the personal and administrative characte
of Washington remains the highest histori
ideal OF the good citizen and the goo
magistrate; and that our material chas
after money and material progress, and OF
subserviency to the spoils doctrine, do NJ
reflect credit on the memory Of Georg
Washington or the political conscience {
the American people. We think he spoke
brave, truthful, and timely wor'
Bishops are not always so apostolic"
CONTROVERSY.
There are some good and gentle souls {
whom everything in the way of contrOvers
in religion is shocking. Theirs is kind {
placid piety which is not to be despised, an
for which even in the church militant thel
is place. It should not, however, /
exalted above the more sturdy type whiC
has the courage of its convictions and seel
to propagate them by all means that al
lawful. There are other good people, NJ
so gentle, who deprecate controversy b
cause they fear its effects upon some
their own views and practices. The lea
agitation must be wrong. AS the churC
was their childhood, or as they conceived
to be, so must it always be. Fifteen yeal
in vestry are counted by them as bette
precedent than fifteen centuries of tt
thought, the life, and the work of IL
= church Controversy we must have viii
human nature remains what 1t IS; onl
when it degenerates into contention an
persecution does it endanger the unity
the spirit and the bond of peace. Yet tho:
who are loudest in declaiming against COZ
troversy are often most forward in advoca
ing repressive legislation against thoseiwf
value peace and principle as much as theI
selves. They charge their fellow churc
2 men with agitations that disturb the
neace. and straightwaY set about to agita