The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-30
CHURCH AND CREED.
The Success of Evangelistic Work
in Kentucky.
us RELIGION A FAILURE9'
Divine Services to be Held at the Vari-
Gus Places Of Worship To-day
The Lutheran Annual" for 1890.

Religious services will be held in the |
various churches to-day as follows:
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY |
SAINTS.-Salt Lake Stake OF Zion, Angus Nj. |
Cannon, president; Joseph L. Taylor and
Charles w. Penrose, counselors. Meeting this
afternoon at 2 o'clock
ST MARKS CArHEDRALl-Holy communion
at 7:30 a. m. Sunday school at 9:45 am.
Morning service with sermon at IL a. m.
Bible and confirmation class at 6:30 p. m. Even
ing prayer and sermon at 7:3O.
Daily services this week as follows, except
Good Friday: Holy communion a. M; morn
ing prayer, 9:45 a. M; evening prayer with
preaching by the bishop, p. m.
Saturday, service of renewal of baptismal
VOWS, 7:30 D. m.
Good Friday-Morning prayer 9:i5 a. m;
special services with addresses on the words
spoken from the cross, IL m; evening prayer
with lecture, 7:3O p. IN.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-West
Third South street, near Main J .Brainard Thrall
pastor. Morning service with preaching at IL
a. m. Evening service with preaching at 7:30 p.
m. Sunday school at l2:l5 p. m. Young Peo-
pies Society of Christian Endeavor at 7:30 p. m.
Seats free and everybody welcome.
REoRGANIZED CHURCH-Preaching in the
Mission chapel on Second South street, East
at Up. m. and 7:30p. m, by Elder r. J. Anthony.
president of the Rocky Mountain mission.
Invitation to all. Seats free.
THE Spiritualsts' association of Salt Lake
versary of modern Spiritualism this, Sunday,
evening, at 7:15 o'clock, in the Temple of Honor
lodge room, over Deseret National bank. The
public are invited. Admission free.
THOMAS c. ARMSTRONG, Secretary.
There 213 Presbyterian ministers in Cal
ifornia, of whom thirty-nine are without
| charge.
1t is worthy of notice that the jokes of
the comic papers which are directed
against religion are the feeblest in these
periodicals. To put the matter on the low
est plane, don't read anti-religious with
cisms, for they are quite sure to be stupid
l-Christidn Union.
One who makes himself thoroughly &C
quainted with the Bible will not be likely
to fancy that sort of preaching that uses
| the Bible mainly to find texts for sermons
and then looks almost everywhere else for
the subject matter of discourses. This
surely is not preaching the gospel.-Indc-
pendent.
SIS religion failure?" asks the Christian
| Union, and declares that the daily news
papers are inclined to answer the question
in the affirmative. Not at all. The people
who practice religion are now and then a
failure, and a newspaper which prints all
the news has to notice the fact, but religion
is not failure, and there never was time
when more money was raised for it, OF
more good works done in its name.-Phild-
delphid Press.
The evangelistic work in Kentucky has
reached remarkable success. Within eight
years 500, % have been expended, SO new
churches have been organized, half as
many more resuscitated; 40 new church
buildings erected; 9,506 members received
on confession of faith (the Synod had only
$500 when the work began;) the number
of candidates increased from 3 to 35, an6
the Presby terrain tioated in 16 new coun
ties.
| We must walk circumspectly in these
days. A man scarcely dares open hi.
. mouth without being charged with putting
his foot in it. If he says that God is immi
nent in nature, forthwith some scholas
will rise up and charge him with being
pantheist. Ii he verge by hair the othel
way, another will say he is an atheist. L
he insist that God is not abstract arbitrari
: ness, he will be called an Arminian. If hi
dwells too fondly on the love of God he will
l be set down as Universalist.
Never before was the Bible itself such
3 center of interest in the world as at tn
present time. 1t is now the study o
/. scholars, the theme of thinkers, and tn
object of attention by the common people
all the world over, as at no former time
When, therefore, such man as Mr.. Glad
e stone signifies his purpose of series o
special articles upon the Bible, he Is sur
of world wide hearing. Mr.. Gladstone i
to write a number of articles of this nature
i, and is TO give them to the public simulJar
: eously in the pages Of the Sunday Schot
Times in this country, and in the pages @
Good Words, in England.
O The Lutheran Annual for 1890 contain
r much valuable information and evince
!. care and interest in its preparation. Frol
}. it we learn that the Lutheran church i
= America has grown from mere handfl
in 1888 to be one of the strongest and mos
numerous religious besides in the land, G
has increased from one minister, one cor
gregation and fifty members in 1888 to {
r. synods, 1912 ministers, 1911 congregation
4 and ,0S6, AS members in 1889. Its mo!
q rapid growth has been within the la.
h twenty-five years, gaining from 1864 to 1SS
n IL synods, ,S62 ministers, 5,095 congreg
n tions, ana T91, 327 members. AS Lutheran
l. ism is strong in the United States, so is
% throughout the world, having 2S,201 mi
" listers, 1926 churches, and 50,0l2, $50 bal
n tized members.
re The Conqregationdlist says The Christie
Mirror estimates that the lottery bushes
draws from the state of Maine 5000, 900 a
nually. 1t is hardly less damaging al
:. demoralizing than the liquor business. Al
these statements ought to move citizens
urge upon their representatives in Co
gress the enactment of the bills recent
introduced giving postmasters great
authority to keep lottery letters ana Giro
ID lars out of the mails; for if that could
done, the miserable swindle would be pra
tically suppressed.
The Examiner (Bapt.) says: We Meth
expect nor wish to see prevailing Bapti
ritual. At the same time we are not di
tressed or alarmed to note among Of
churches disposition to make the servi
of worship more interesting and attractiv
Many Baptist congregations join now
- days in repeating the Lords Prayer and
y. responsive reading of the Psalms. II
% ''Gloria in Excelsis' is sung by mai
~ every Sunday. We even know of some
which that grand old symbol-notable ali
1t for its comprehensiveness of statement al
n the Saxon purity and strength Of its la
=, guage-the Apostles Greed, is regular
10 repeated, the congregation standing, al
al either uniting with the minister or ell
I'D responding at the close with an "Amen.''
r. The Christian Union says: There is not
at ing more foolish than an investment In
DIV lottery, except for state to license Oh
A single ticket may result in greater ga
than loss to the purchaser-though in t
long run it rarely happcns-but hundr
D. thousand tickets, which a whole sta
es would buy, are certain TO result in I'll
mendous loss, and this loss keeps on i