The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-27
The Various Religious Services to
be Held To-day.
THE GROWTH OF LUTHERANIsM
Man and the Infinite-Some new Views From
Rabbi-Life Like an Ocean
Changes of Faith.
Religious services will be held in tn
va riors churchor IN dow oc folIoryr.

afternoon AT = CLOCK
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-West
Third South street. near Main; j. Brainerd
Thrall pastor. Morning worship with sermon,
at ii. Evening service at 80 Subject of
morning sermon, 1.-The Religious Value of the
Sabbath" Sunday school at l2:l5. Christian
Endeavor society at $50. Seats free at all
services and everybody welcome.
THERE will be meeting in the federal court
room this evening to protest against the effort
being made to establish the Puritan Sabbath
in Salt Lake. Mr.. Charles Ellis will review
the speeches of the clergy in union meeting last
Sunday evening. Doors open at 80. Addresses
at o'clock. All are invited.
ST. MARKS CATHEDRAL-Holy communion
at 1880 am. Sunday school at 8 AS am. Morn
ing service with sermon at IL a. m Bible class
at $50 pm. Evening prayer and sermon at7:30
pm.
CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH Services will
be held at the Thirteenth ward schoolhouse, at
II am. Sunday school at 10 am. All are cor
daily invited to attend these services.
The Baptist year book. just issued, shows
that the number of Baptists in the United
States is 3,070047. During 1889, 144,575
new members were baptized.
The Baltimore Methodist Episcopal con-
ference has adopted plan for the insur-
ance of the churches of the conference, and
pointed treasurer of the fund.
The great revival which has taken place
in connection with the Turco- American
mission at Aintab in Armenia has resulted
in the addition of 534 new members to the
church.
Life is like an ocean; some souls, like the
great waves, bear heavy burdens and carry
treasures to far-off lands; others, like the
foam, sparkle for moment in the sunlight
and then are cast upon the rocks or dis
solved in empty air.
Two missionaries, one in service on the
Mosquito coast, Central America, the other
in Labrador, are representatives of fam
lily who for six generations-from 1875
downwards-have been laboring in one or
another of the Moravian mission fields
Illustrated Christian Weekly.
Rabbi Gotthall, a man of learning, of
| much breadth of views and philosophic
| spirit. is preaching a series of discourses in
| New York on the subject of the treatment
by the Jews of Jesus while the founder of
| Christianity was on earth. The rabbi
AYERS that the great majority of the Jews
were in complete ignorance of the death of
Christ, knew nothing of his life or teach
ings, and "only small minority of the race
within the boundaries of Judea were cogni-
zant of his career, and could not be held &C
countable for the tragedy of Calvary" In
general, the learned rabbi contends the
Jews were liberal, tolerant, and receptive
of Christ's teachings, and rejected him
only ''as God or part of the Deity ."-Phild-
delphid Times.
The Lutheran church in America has
| grown from mere handful in 1888 to be
one Of the strongest and most numerous re-
ligious bodies in the land, or has increased
| from one minister, one congregation and
fifty members in 1888 to fifty synods, 4,6l2
ministers, 7,9ll congregations, and l ,OS6, O4s
members in 1889 Its mostr rapid growth has
been within the last twenty five years from
1864 to 1889, seventeen Synods, 1862 minis
tiers, 5,095 congregations, and 79l, 1897 mem
bers. AS Lutheranism is strong in the
United States, so is it throughout the
world, having 2S,2O1 ministers, 1926
churches, and 50,012, 180 baptized members
God has given to her a grand history and
an extensive field, especially in Germany
Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Russian
! provinces, Hungary, and the United States
while in other portions of the globe she has
a more or less important infiuence.-Chrts
tian at Work.
MAN AND THE INFINITE.
Man does not live of himself. Whatever
beauty there is in human nature is beauty
given, a beauty derived from maternal ma
ture as we say, but beneath and beyond ma
ture we recognize that infinite and eterua
power on which the hopes, the fortunes
and the destiny of mankind depend. Lee
US not evade this; either mankind is self
created, self sustained, or it has beer
created (terms are unimportant) and i.
sustained by power greater than itself
This is the kernel of truth in the teaching.
of theologies and this is what men mus
recognize to the end of time Man is moth
ing of himself. The suns wax and wane
planets speed along their destined paths
they become the abode of life, and lif,
grows cold and dies; and on their tiny islet
washed by the ocean of infinite space, tn,
generations of men arise and pass. Ant
shall this helpless atom, momentarily issu
ing amid the stress and rush of multitude
nous forces, pretend to cut himself off from
the mighty influence which controls hin
and do himself homage as to divinity! Ii
man is beauty and the perception of beauty
in man is goodness, in man is elevation O
thought and feeling (tried necessarily b,
human standards): yet surely we mus
admit that man has not made these thing
for himself, but that they are the NANTES
tations through human beings of qualitie
inherent in that cosmos of which human
life forms an infinitesimal part. u
BroWn, in the Open Court.
CHANGES OF FAITH.
Heraclitus was not far from right whe
\ he represented everything as in constan
motion. The worlds move and the atom
move and thought moves as well as life
Motion is condition of growth, whethe
in mind or matter. The law of change j
manifest in religion and theology as it is i
. science or society. This law of change
j divinely benefcent It has been the mis-
take of the church, for which it has pal
very dearly, to suppose that it is any les
benefcent in religion than elsewhere
, While the church has been vainly seekin
= some lnfallible form or manifestation c
truth, the truth itself has been CONSTANT
;. unfolding, and revealing itself in ne'
. forms and in pew energy. The vitality {
f faith is shown by growth, not by stagni
= tion and there is no greater mistake tina
to suppose that faith thrives only in tn
!, darkness; it is all the more healthy whe
L it grows in She light. The responsible
of judging what is truth can never b
. wholly transferred from the individual.
man may Dase his convictions upon bool
:, a pope, an inspired guide, or upon the her
= tage Of opinion which has come down I
= = him, or upon the general consensus of h,
= man belief; but the conviction itself mu.
y be his own. Convictions are not merel
! the result OF the will. They result fro
the action of the intellect and the col
, science. A man who changes his religion
L belief from conviction does it simply b
!, cause he is compelled to. If he is seekin
. truth, the supreme question must be
" him, as it was to PLATE, What is trutl
: This momentous question he must answ,
:, from the light which pours on his own sou
: tits question of evidence. If, then, "
> are asked, What is the gain of liber
: Christianity to-day over the Christianity
!, fifty years agos we may say in sing
sentence that it is better adjusted to tt
condition of human knowledge In 9TH
y words, it is nineteenth century religio
u u And, in our view, the inspirations for Ii
u which come, not only in increased know