The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-02
The Services to be Held at the
Various Churches To-day.
THE SUNDAY REST MOVEMENT
A Plea for Better Music in Churches-Signs
of Progress Strength of
the Old Catholics.
Religious services will be held at the
various churches today as follows:

munion and sermon at II a. m. Bible
class at 6 80 p. N. Evening prayer and sermon
at 80 pm.
ST. PAULs CHAPEL-Holy communion at
III a. m Morning prayer and sermon atl1 a. FL
Sunday school at EGO pm. Evening prayer
and sermon atss7:30 pm.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN-Publ worship at II o.
M, and preaching by the pastor r. G.
McNlece. Sabbath school at 1925. Young
Peoples society at 6 :25. Evening worship al
~ and preaching by the pastor Seats free
at all these services and strangers welcome
SPIRITUALISTS MEETING-This (Sunday) even
ing In the Temple of Honor lodge room, ovel
DeSeret National bank, Main street, at O clock
Enbulrera invited. Admission free
The Woman's Foreign Missionary society
OF the Methodist Episcopal church has
over 100, 600 members.
Prayers We're ordered by 4 rchbishops
Corrlgan and Gross in their respective
dioceses to ward off the scourge of the in.
fuenza.
The simplicity of Christianity is as
divine as its foundation. What is given to
the world TO save it must be high enough
to be beyond the worlds furthest reach
and vet simple enough to come within the
comprehension of the average creature
The highest and deepest morality is en-
bodied in the Ten Commandments and the
sermon on tue Mount, and yet CHILD may
understand both at first reading.
Denmark, Norway and Sweden contrib
ute annually about $4,000 for foreign
missions, having 100 missionaries in the
field, with membership of $4,000 in their
missions. Baptist progress in Sweden is
one of the remarkable religious movements
OF the present time. Revivals are con-
slant. In twenty years the number of
church members has advanced from I, 600
to 32.5OS. The baptisms in 1888 were 800.
Christian at Work.
Here is a short sermon by a woman
though not preached from pulpit. 1t is a
good one, and is pretty sure to hit your
own case somewhere, whatever may be
your age and circumstances ''The best
thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness
to an opponent, tolerance; to friend, youl
heart; to your child, q good example; tc
your father, Difference; to your mother
conduct that Will make her proud of YOU
to yourself, respect; to all men, charity
The Christian World touches the question
How shall we get the masses to come tc
church. In this way: ''They do not want
disquisitions on Christian evidences. They
do not want painful attempts. either to es
taolsh miracles or to explain away the
supernatural. What they need is direct
appeal to the consciousness of God in pres
ent every day life. They need the practical
affairs of our own time to be illustrated in
the spiritual light of the New Testament.
Ii they get this they will come to the
church as eagerly as TO scientific lectures
Ii they do not, they will not come: and
warnings against meddling with intelIec
tual difficulties will only excite their
Scorn."
THE SUNDAY REST MOVEMENT
In Cincinnati, Denver, and other cities
the Sunday saloons have received very
serious backsets. The PENNSYLVANIA Rail
road company, the Vanderbilt lines, AND
others, numbering nearly score in all
have reduced their Sunday work. Mr.. p
M. Arthur, chief of the brotherhood OF
locomotive engineers, estimates that al
least seventy-tive thousand railroad en-
ployees have been given Sunday rest. A
group OF more than half a hundred high
railroad officials, including presidents, gen
efal managers, and superintendent, have
made written confessions that too much
work is required Of their men on Sunday
-Chica0O Ne,Cs.
MUSIC IN CHURCHES.
Those who plead for better music in
churches because it is better aru do moi
mean artistic music which-for want of a
better term-is merely stylish. Artistic
music should have beauty, but the beauty
of holiness; if it have strength. it should
be as the making of a joyful noise unto the
Lord; II 1T have tenderness, it should be as
the prayer which is the souls sincere de-
sire. Lord have mercy upon us'' is the
burden of the Kyrie; "Glory be to God on
High" of the Gloria; the Nicene Greed of
the Credo; ''Holy, Holy Lord God of Sab
bath" OF the Sanctus, and so on. In thus
giving expression to all Christian aspira-
lions, what more uplifting text could a
composer seek, and who can cavil at it?-
Hartford Courant.
STRENGTH OF THE OLD CATHOLICS.
The recent death of DR.. Dollinger lends
interest to q statement of the present
strength of the old Catholics. of which
body he was the leader. 1t is estimated
that there are at least 100,0 coo old Catholics
IN the states of Central Europe. Germany.
Switzerland, and Austro- Hungary. Off,
clal accounts give Germany Is, $780, of whom
$3.50 are IN Prussia. In Bavaria the old
Catholics are numerous enough to cause a
good deal of trouble to the Ultramontanes.
who nave tried IN vain to get q recognition
OF the Concordat at the expense of the con-
stltution. In Switzerland there are about
10000 old Catholics formed into sixty-two
congregations, with Bishop Herzog at the
head. In Austro- Hungary there are prob
ably 10000 to 5,000.-B0ston Journal.
SIGNS OF PROGRESS.
If it is true, and it is not disputed. that
good men are known by their works il
would seem TO be similarly true that religi-
Gus bodies should be known by their
churches. In these days a good deal is said
and written about the alleged extraordin-
airy growth OF agnosticisTa In all it's many
forms Of cropping uncertainty and positive
doubt which it is made to assume. and also
much is said and written about the church
growing cold and the world growing indif-
ferent to religion. All of which is EASY TO
say and write. AS one swallow does not
make summer, so single fact does not al
ways dlsapprove a general statement: but
the fact, put on record by writer in re-
cent number of Hdrper'S Weekyy. that. since
january. 1888. the enormous sum. in round
numbers, OF $1,000, GOO has been spent in the
city of New York in the erection of
churches, seems to go far towards disprov
Ing the frequent givings out of those whose
wish is apparently father to the thought
that in the United States religious Doubt
Is superceding faith. New York is not so
truly representative American city as
either of several others which might be
named. More than any other it is a for
eign city, suggesting largely alien thought
in religion as in all that is opposed to relig-
ion, and if its people contribute in less than
two years nearly s5,000,00O to the erection
of churches. there is reason 60 believe that
agnosticism is not having the wonderful
growth there which It's disciples attribute
to lt-that the church is not growing cold
and that indifference TO religion is not be
coming. common. II in New York, where
the social conditions are not SO favorable
to the development of religious sentiment
as it is in some of the other cities of the
United States, sacred temples rise so
rapidly, it is rather more likely than not
that the warmth of the church is growing
more fervid, and the interest of the people
OF the country more earnest. Since the be.
ginning of 1888, in New York city alone,