The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-05
CHURCH AND CREED.
Services, to be Held at the Vari-
GUS Churches To-day.
CHRISTIAN FAITH AND FACTS.
The Immense Strides Which Christianity IL
Making Among the West African
Natives-Fundamental Facts.

Nat1YeS-Fundamental Facts.
Religious services will be held at the
various churches to-day as follows:
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LArrER-DAY
SAINTS.-Salt Lake Stake of Zion, Angus NJ.
Cannon, president; Joseph E. Taylor and
Charles w. PenroSe, counSelors. Meeting this
afternoon at 2 O'Clock.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHuRcH-West,
Third South street, near Main. Brainard Thrall,
pastor. Morning service, IL. Evening service
at $50. Rev. S. 5. Mathews, of Boston, will
preach in the morning, and Mr.. Thrall in the
evening. Sunday school at 12:l5 pm. Young
peoples meeting at $50 pm. Seats are free
and stranger cordially invited. Prayer meet
lngs VIII be neld TINS week on Monday, Tuesday
and Thursday evenings. The annual meeting of
the church and society will be held on Wednes-
day evening at 7:30.
FIRST REsBYTERIAN-Public worship at II a.
m, and preaching by the pastor, r. G.
McNiece. Sabbath school at 1925. Young
Peoples society at 6:25. No preaching service
in the evening. The week of prayer will be OBJ
served by meetings on Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday evenings from Z to s
O'Clock.
ST. MARKS CATHEDRAL-Holy communion
at 1880 a. m. Sunday school at 9:45 a. IN.
Morning prayer, sermon ana holy communion
at II a. ~. Bible class at $50 p. m. Evening
prayer and sermon at 7:30 pm.
ST. PAUL's CHAPEL-Holy communion at 10
am. Morning prayer and sermon at IL an.
sunday school at 1880 pm. Evening PRAYER
and sermon, 7:30 pm.
1t is said that there are more than one
thousand pupils in a single, rapidly-grow-
ing Sunday schoolin Okayama, Japan.
The Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Montana has a communicate list of 1,249;
confirms d, lis; value of church property,
Sl6S, 906,55; total offerings, S27, 500 SO.
The most precious of all possessions is
power over ourselves; power to withstand
trial, to bear suffering, to front danger:
power over pleasures and pain; power to
follow our convictions, however resisted
by menace and scorn; the power of calm
reliance in scenes of darkness and storm.
The CaurchmGn says concerning carving
the higher criticism into the pulpit: The
clergy arc not sent to teach criticism. 1t
IS well for them to study it, especially if
they can study it profoundly; but to repeat
at second a the supposed results of criti-
cIsm, which are not and cannot yet be final,
Is to incur the tremendous and uncharitable
risk OF lnlurlng immortal soulS.n
The organization in existence for some
years among Protestants, called 1.-The
Daughters OF the King" has been inflated
by the organization among the Romanists
OF The Daughters of the Queen.'' 1t was
organized in St. Louis, December 6, 1889.
1t IS said they will help the ignorant and
destitute children CT the city. gathering
them into Saturday sewing schools. teach.
ing them habits OF personal department..
cleanliness, etc. The girls who are taught
sewing will be given the clothing they
make, as rewards of merit.
The Missionary Reuiew of the World de
cember) gives a very valuable table of
statistics showing the amounts contributed
Tor foreign missions during the past year
by the churches of the United States. Can
ada, Great Britain and on the European
continent. The total income during 1889,
reaches the great total of S9.51S.2l4 To-
ward this the churches of the United States
n Canada gave s ,572. 034. The Presbv-
terrain church (North) contributed the larr-
est sum (sS4S,6O1, or an average of SIP
per member), but the contributors to the
a. b. Z. +. NJ. reached the highest per-
centage Of individual, giving, viz. ,S1.44.
a certain horror of sectarianism and
denomlnatlonalism has taken hold of some
Christians. They must adopt a platform
on Which all Christians can stan | and work
together. We have such a platform already
In the New Testament, but it does not re
qulre US to abandon our denominationalism
In order to cooperate intelligently and
efhc!entiy. In the effort to frame unde-
PldOioI LS anu Sy SlCHS.S some
wel[meaning Christians have laid aside
many denominational doctrines and usuages
which are most important and effective.
History proves that nearly all the substan-
tlal and durable fruits of Christianity in
modern times have been produced through
denominational teaching and effort.
EastAfrica has of late engrossed so much
attention that readers may be in danger of
forgetting the claims of missions and the
progress of the gospelin othe- parts of that
vast continent. The venerable Bishop
Crowther, who has recently arrived In Eng
land, speaks highly of the immense strides
which Christianity is making among the
west African natives; a very encouraging
feature being the self denying enthusiasm
which converts display in helping on the
good work. For instance, on the river
Benny they have themselves built an iron
church to accommodate 1,500, but which
has frequently a congregation of 1905. and
they have built three churches from the in.
terror for their use when attending the oil
markets. Along the valley of the Nile
from Alexandria to the first cataract. arc
shventy mission stations and seventy Sun.
day schools, numbering 4,Ol7 scholars
while the day and boarding schools have
over tifty-two hundred pupils. There ha:
been an increasing demand for Bibles
6,551 having been sold the last year. witt
1888 volumes of religious literature. an(
17.119 educational books.-Missionaru Re
vieiC.
CIDrCrI1N FAITH ANn IN rr,