The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-01
CHURCH CHIMES.
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Instructive Sunday Reading
Cleaned From All Sources.
BUDDHISM In AMERICA.
A Church Not Alin-Other Religious Matter
of Interest to All
Readers.
AMERICA.
BUDDHISM

various places of worship to day as follows:
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY
SAINTs.-Salt Lake Stake of Zion, Angus NJ.
Cannon, president; Joseph E. Taylor and
Charles W. Penrose, counselors. Meeting this
afternoon at 9 o'clock
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURcH-The Rev
W. Brainard Thrall, pastor. Preaching by The
fp3Stor and communion at at IL am. Sunday
School at 1918. Seats free and public cordially
invited.
hST MARKS CATHEDRAL-Holy communion
Y7:SO am. Morning prayer baptism and cate
Missing at o:45 am. Litony sermon and holy
communion at II a. m. Evening prayer ana
sermon at $50 ON Prayers daily.
The city of New York has 600 Sunday
schools, with a total of Isl, 900 scholars and
teachers. Philadelphia has SIG Sunday
schools, with total of 1875, SO2 teachers and
scholars.
Judaism is not archaeology or philology
or theology. 1t is the simplest, directest
message-cease to do evil, learn to do well.
A little more Isaiah and a great deal less
casuistry would improve matters.-JcDiSh
Messenger.
AS the sun does not wait for prayers and
lamentations that he may rise, but shines
at once, and is greeted by all, so neither
wait thou for applause and shouts and eulo-
gies, that thou mayest do well, but be
spontaneous benefactor, and thou shalt be
beloved like the sun.-EpictetuS
The Nashville Christidn Advocate says:
THE African Methodist church, which has
not white man among its members or any
organic relations with any white church
organization, reports membership Of $780,
CO.,"
DIR. Henry Van Dyke says in his article
on "Tennyson and the Bible, - in the August
Century: 1.-THE Bible is in continual danger
Of being desiccatedfby an exhaustive-and
exhausting-scientitic treatment. When it
comes TO be regarded chiefly as a compen-
dunn of exact statements of metaphysical
doctrine, the day of its life will be over
and it will be ready for place in the
museum of antiquities.
The Lutheran church in America is just
now agitated over the question of admitting
ministers of other communions into their
pulpits, and communicates to other
churche, to their affairs. At the meeting of
the general council, held at Galesburg, ILL.,,
in 1875, action was taken which forbade the
use of Lutheran pulpits and affairs by other
ministers. 1t is said that this action was
pressed upon the council by the German
element in the denomination, and was en-
dured by the English members for the sake
Of peace.-New York Christian Advocate.
DBARTH IN THE MINISTRY.
In many of our religious exchanges we
note anxious and ominous words of appre-
hension because of the need of available
men for vacant pulpits and for new fields
of Christian labor opening in our great
west. One prominent religious journal
characterizes the restitution as "a famine
in the ministry" The fact IS observed,
also, with no little fOrebOding, that a very
much smaller proportion of the young men
at our educational institutions, particu-
larly in New England, are contemplating |
the ministry as profession than in former |
LNears. Our own denomination is disturbed |
esss, relatively, because of this need, and |
Rst it is being felt not little in the diff !
Guilty with which our leading pulpits are
supplied when an unexpected vacancy |
occurs.-ZjOns Herald (Hcthodist.)
TIRE LAST KICKS OF BUDDHISM IN JAPAN.
While it is certain that Japan is rapidly
becoming Christian nation, It Is equally
evident that the change is not to be made |
without a last desperate struggle from the |
Buddhist Propaganda in that empire. The |
most decisive battle Of campaign fire. |
quently comes at its close. That OF Chris |
tjanity against Buddhism in Japan seems |
likely 20 be closed in this way, and soon. |
Just now Japanese newspapers have much |
10 say about the teachings of Buddhist doc
trines with renewed activity, and |
with no little success, and Of the |
organization of new schools, and |
other adjuncts TO an acti7e missionary |
campaign. Among the latter is, singular as |
IL may seem, the appearance of Buddhist |
paper published in English, and called the I
Bijou Of Asic. Its combination of ignor-
ance and anger will probably prevent 1t |
from becoming a very efficient campaign
ergan.- By process not very lucidly de-
scribe6in English. and certainly without /
existence, Christianity is said TO be declin- |
ing both in Europe and America(D; and |
with a look Of innocent sincerely, 1t is pro
posed that Buddhism shall occupy the va |
Gated fields. For the purpose of expound- |
zig the doctrines of the coming religion TO |
the West, this Bjou has been started
New York Evangelist (Eran0clieoD.
CHURCH not MILL.
The modern Christian public has come to |
feel that church that is not good for some |
thing is good for nothing. This is the day |
Of high pressure, superheated activity IN |
church work. The lazy, sleepy, do-nothing |
church is Justly impaled on the shaft Of |
criticism. The question is fairly raised |
whether a church that is open an hour or
two on Sunday and closed the rest of the |
week is doing its duty to either God or
man. But on the other hand, the question |
NAV also be raised whether the tendency is |
not extremein the other direction-whether
a feverish, eXcitable activity, a religious
hustle, confused whirr of cogs and wheels,
the noise of escaping steam, has not taken |
the place of the Old-fashioned somnolence.
We will not say word to discourage in the
least earnest and well directed activity. A
church that is not working is dying. But |
there is a vast differenceI In the way
in which churches do their work.
In some it is done with noiseles5 effective
ness The air is astir, there is a pleasant |
breeze of activity; gentle figures like min
istering angels fly here and there through
all the departments of the church work. A
good deal is accomplished. but there is very
little friction in doing it. Everything is
well oiled and so nicely adjusted that there
is no suggestion of machinery. We are
constantly wondering how so much can be
done with so little noise. On the other
hand. there are churches which make just
the opposite impression. You hardly get
within sight of them before you hear the
rumble of wheels, the creaking of journals,
the lar of machinery The steam whistle
blows pretty loudly to let the public know
the church is at work. There Is parade OF
statistics. The roster of church offices is
large. But, somehow, the product of the
whole establishment is not very great.
Judging by its stock of machinery and the
pressure Of steam, it is a very active reli-
gious mill: but, when you measure the
output, it is exceedingly small, and lar ex-
celled by many churches OF less NOISY fame
No church ought to be turned into relI-
rious mill All machinery that is simply
running on exhibition ought to be broken
up and cast into the scrap heap. The lazy
church need not give place to restless,
superficial deed doing, to an englnery OF
charity which does more to foster pauperlsm
than TO remove it. The true church is not
NJ be. on the one hand, dormitory or
tomb. nor on the other hand, religious
machine shop. Rather is it to be deep
spring of moral and spiritual inspiration,
home. a shelter, Bethel of rest an ora
go, ae 1.,alI az a. source from which shall