The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-18
CHURCH And CREED
The Various Religious Services
to be Held To-day.
THE SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY
Preaching Should not be Confined to Men
Who are Exclusively Educated
For That Purpose.
Religious services will be held in the
various churches to-day as follows:

IN61glOuS S6TNICSS Will D6 HClu III tue
various churches to-day as follows:
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY
SAINTS.-Salt Lake Stake of Zion, Angus M
Cannon president; Joseph Z. Taylor and
Charles W. Penrose,- counselors Meeting this
afternoon at clock
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-West
Third South street. near Main; J. Brainerd
Thrall, pastor. Morning worship with sermon.
at II O'Clock. Sunday school at 1918. Chris
tian Endeavor society at $50 No evening ser
vice. Seats free and everybody welcome.
ST. MARKS CATHEDRAL-Holy communion
at F:SO am Sunday school at 9:45. Morning
service with sermon at II. Bible class at $50
pm. Evening prayer and sermon at730pm.
FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH-Third
South and Main street. J. w. Jones' pastor
Preaching at IL am. and 1870 pm. Sabbath
school at 1918 Young people 5 meeting at
6:9Op.m. Glass meeting at 10 am. General
prayer meeting "Wednesday at 7:45 pm. Cor
dial invitation extended to all.
ST. PAUL's-Morning prayer and holy com
munion at IL am. Sunday school at pm.
Evening prayer and sermon at pm.
REoRGANIZED CHURCH-There will be regular
meetiHgs in the chapel, on Second South street.
between Second and Third East at D. m. and
7:30 p. Preaching by R. j. Anthony presi-
dent of the Rocky Mountain mission. Free in
vitation TO all. Seats free.
CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHuRcH-Services will
be held at the Thirteenth ward schoolhouse. at
IL am. Sunday school at 10 am All are cor
daily invited to attend these services.
The figures increase for the Japan mis-
sion. This week the secretary announces
a grand total of SCI, S74. 62.-the UniuerSdl-
iSt.,
OF the more than 1000 students who
have joined the volunteer movement for
foreign missions about one-q quarter are
women.
The American mission in Armenia re-
ports an addition Of 534 new members to
the church as the result of the revival al
Aintab.-I Illustrated Christian Weekly
The Eliot church of Newton, Mass, by a
gift of s 200, has provided the means for a
station at Tottri. place of 10000 inhabi
tants, on the west coast of Japan.
Between Catholic agitation on the one
side and Protestant protest on the other
there seems to be little approach to unity
among eminently Christian brethren
JeIUish Messenger.
Let each man see that his voice and
influence shall help aud not hinder. 1t is
good thing every day to strive to be bless
ing and an encouragement TO every one yor
meet.-Cumberldnd Presbyterian.
The Baptists are marching 90, their new
denominational year book showing a gair
the past year of forty-one association, 6SS
churches and - 253 members. The regular
Baptist membership is 3 900, 049.-Lhris
tidn at Work
In the New Hebrides fifty years ago
there was not a Christian. Now it is sail
there is not heatheni
Micronesia saw her first Christian hap
tism but a little over quarter of a century
ago. Now there are forty seven self-sup
porting churches and about 5000 church
members.
Mrs Sarah Utermule, of Washington
d. c.. has decided to the Lutheran churcl
twenty seven acres of valuable land as
site for the Utermule home for the aged.
The American Missionary association
received the past six months from collec
tions Sl01, 500 A: from estates. SOL 179. GO
from income, S4,262, 81: from tuition
SD 1898 and from the United States gov
eminent for Indian schools, IS, 9f6.07; total
S23S, 627.3L
Tive thousand five hundred native Chris
tians of Canton have addressed an ope
letter to the Christian churches of Eng
land, imploring them to be active in secul
ing the overthrow of the opium traffic.
Portions of the Bible are to-day trans
lated into twenty times as man
tongues as were heard on the day of Pente
cost During the present century alone
has been put into $50 languages.
The Friendly islands fifty years ago ha
not a native Christian. Now there ar
more than $4,000 church members, VIII
give duJludIly IlOA blCh 5Oduby SbOl
$4,000 for religious objects.
In Burmah, seventy years ago, there wa
not a single Christian. Now there are nc
far from 100000. The Baptists alone hav
500 churches and nearly 10000 commun
cants.
Africa now has at work within her bort
ers 10 American, II British, and 10 contir
entail missionary societies. There al
more than 700 ordained missionaries, an
more than 1000 native preachers. 1t
estimated that there are, both white an
native, about $4,000 communicates an
10000 adhererts.
There need be no special fear of tn
Catholic church. Catholicism will doub
less be quite ready to return the compl
ment and say: There need be no speci
fear of the Liberal church. Neither bod
sets the Bible as supreme; neither has an
fear of the other.-Prof. Suing, in II
Chicago Standard.
Miss Mary Coddington, of New Yorl
has given the City Mission $4,000 wit
which to erect boys club house. Arc
deacon Mackay-Smith,. Major 7. ]. Glib
and b. NJ Whitlock are appointed a con
miutee to purchase building near I'll
Bowery, and put it in suitable order. TT
$4,000 will include the cost and endoy
ment-The Church of To-day.
The government has offered to contra
with the board of home mission of tn
Presbyterian church for the establishmel
of mission schools among the Attic Eskiu
al Point Barrow and Cape Prince of Vale
Alaska.
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