The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-06
The Various Religious Services
to be Held To-day.
HEALTH AND CHRISTIANITY.
Faith and its Results Sadness and SOlace-
The Salvation Army and Its Work
General Religious News.

mon at IL am. Sunday school at 1890 pm.
Evening prayer and sermon at 1880 pm
ST. MARKS CArHEDRAL-Holy communion
at 1880 a. m. Morning prayer baptism and
catechlsing at 9:4J. Litany, sermon and holy
communion at II a. N. Bible class at $50 p. m.
Evening prayer and sermon at 7:30 pm
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL -MorniL G
worship at II am. Evening worship at 80
p. IN. The pastor j. Brainard Thral, viii
preach morning and evening. a male choir
will lead the singing at the even ng service.
Sunday school at l2:l5. Society OF Christian
Endeayor at $50 pm. Seats free, and public
cordially invited.
tn ought to show itself at its best
when the need of it is greatest. Hence it
is that when everything seems to go
against US we ought to be surest that all is
going well: for, at such time above all
others, it is clear that God is choosing for
US, since we should never have chosen this
for ourselves.
The supernatural element in the form of
miracles lies upon the face Of the Bible as
book of history, especially in the record
given of Jesus of Nazareth. Take away
this element from Christianity and the
whole system, as set forth in the Bible,
would at once fall to the ground. The
supernatural is really the battle ground be-
tween the friends and enemies of Bible
religion.-Independcn
1t is not so long since an estimable Epis-
copalian divine deplored the spirit of com
mercialism in American churches. That a
similar tendency is shown in many Ameri-
can synagogues cannot be denied. 1t is an
old story, and perhaps it is best to write as
little as possible on a topic that is discredit-
able to us as community, without unity,
and with its houses of worship rivals not
partners.-JCICiSh Messenger.
On one of the old Roman coins there is
the picture of an OK standing between the
pillow and the altar, with the inscription,
Ready for either.n This should be the
attitude of the Christian-ready to render
or to be rendered; wholly devoted. so that
he shall be as ready to sacrifice himself as
to exercise his powers in the service of the
Master. tits rare spirit, this. Yet some
Christians possess it, and manifest it in
their lves.-ZiOn's Herald.
Among the announcements of Sunday
services in the Boston dailies is one of the
Salvation Army: Conversions nightly.
another constellation of diamonds, emo
tional girl preachers. charming song
stresses, musical nightingales recently
from Scotland" The programme reads
quite like the advertisement of dime
museum. Is it Xix 3ly that conversions"
under such ministry will produce real
changes of character from evil to good!-
COngregGtiOndlist.
In heather countries Protestants occupy
500 separate mission fields, containing
10000 mission stations, supplied by 10000
missionaries. In these 10000 mission sta
tons there are 100000 Sunday school
schOlars-an average of twenty-five to each
station. In the 10000 Protestant mission
! stations there are 100000 of native COM
municants, or an average of fifty to each
station. There are also 10000 600 of adher-
entS who are friends of the Evangelical
faith and hearers of the gospel preached
from the Bible-an average of 100 to each
station.-MissiOndry ReuielC.
With the church doors closed most OF the
week, and the church organization practi-
cally imperative save as an ecclesiastical
body, there is very little to attract the at
tention of those who are Indifferent to re-
ligious matters. What possible reason can
be given why Young Mems Christian
association should keep open doors all
week, and be engaged in all kinds of secu-
lar work, in order to reach and save young
men, while the church, which claims to be
the body and TO enshrine the beating heart
of the Christ of the world, is sitting in
practical idleness six days out of the seven!
''LET THEM ALONE"
Christian science, faith cure, mind cure
are all different phases of an inevitable re
action against the agnosticism and materi-
alism of the age. The doctrine that there
is no knowledge except what the reason
produces begets q morbid mysticism-the
belief that there is a knowledge which the
reason can not even analyze and verify the
doctrine that there is no spirit except such
as is an emanation of matter begets the be-
llef that there is no matter except such as
Nan emanation of spirit. All captivating
errors are those which are half-truths;
the way to rob them of their captivating
power is to discern the half truth and pres
ent ii in clearer and more attractive forms
Direct attack upon the error rarely has any
other effect than to entrench it and convert
half-faith into a polemical conviction.
The counsel which Christ gave his disciples
respecting the Pharisees has u wide appli-
cation, paradOXical as it at first seems to
DE: Let them alone" he said; they be
blind leaders of the blind. "-Chiistiun
Union.
HEALTH AND CHRISTIAN CONDUCT
Somebody has said that no chronic dys-
peptic can be true Christian. UufOrtu-
nately, the data for this statement are by
no means incOnsiderable. man can not
he demOralized physically without some
sympathetic degradation of the mental and
moral powers. There is an enormous moral !
inertia to a sickly body. We see, then, |
how essential 1t is that Christians, and all |
those who value conduct as ''three-foUrths |
of life,'' should endeaver to maintain u rig- /
orOus and healthful condition of the body. |
Time was when all manner IF hfe-giving /
sports and recreations were looked upon
as inventions of the devil for ensnaring
the pious soul Thank God, that Puritanic
notion is as dead as d fossil trilobite, and
now muscular Christianity, other things
being equal, is accorded the highest rank
in the development of the individual.
Everything that tends to promote health.
to provide a sound body for sound mind,
is in accordance with the spirit of the Cos
always, of course, that ply
steal recreation and culture are not
carried too far and are not prostituted
TO other ends than they can legiti-
mately serve, Byall means, let muscular
Christianity be encouraged. The more
sound muscle and the more pure blood
there are in the church, the more true piety
there will be.-Zi0n'S Herald (Methodist)
SADNESS AND soLACE.
It can not be denied that the general ten
dency of the human heart a sage advances is
toward sadness and d OPPRESSION. II might
also be said it is the natural tendency
This does not hold, as a rule; there are
many pleasing exceptions, but the general
is in serious, sombre direction.
It is not be wondered at that this should
be; sorrows grieve, and it is a constant
struggle to overcome and rise superior to
the first one, then another besetting i'll.
Yrue, natures differ widely. and where one
Win brood and mourn, another may,
through buoyancy of position. succe sfully
,ry. AWAY with melancholy" There can
be no real pleasure. it would seem, in that
which is mournful and sad. and vet there
Is that in the soul of man which makes
many pathetic story far more fascinating
matter could possibly prove. There is a
nournful sweetness to some of the saddest