The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-26
y CHURCH And CREED.
The Various Religious Services to
be Held To-day.
THE COMPULSORY BIBLE STUDY.
The Best Givers to the Missionary Cause
Talmage as the Prince of Sensational
- ShOwman-General Religious News.
THE COMPULSORY BIBLE STUDY.
Religious services will be held at the
various churches today as follows:

Religious services will be held at tn,
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 anC
Charles w. Penrose, counselors. Meeting thi!
afternoon at o clock.
ST. PAUL's CHAPEL-Morning services apt
sermon at IL am. Sunday school at 2:3O u. no
Evening prayer and sermon t7:30 pm
ST. MARKS CATHEDRAL-Holy communion
at $50 a. IN. Sunday school at 9:45 a m
Morning service with sermon at IL a. m Bible
class at 6:3O p. m. Evening prayer and sermon
at 7:30 pm.
SPIRITUALISM-Temple of Honor hall. above
Deseret Bank, First South street at 7:3C
pm. Subject: E'Phenomenal Spiritualism -
by Mr.. John Stubbs of Newcastle on
Tyne England. All questions entertained on
the subject.
Il FIRST PRESBYTERIAN-Public worship at II a.
~ and preaching by the pastor, r. G.
McNiece. Sabbath school at 1925. Young
People society at go. Evening worship at
80 and preaching by DR.. r. l.. Bachman, OF
Utica, N. S. Seats free at all these services,
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-West.
Third South street, near Main Brainard Thrall,
pastor. Services with sermonsat II I'm There
viii be evening service Sunday school at ~ NJ
pm. Young peoples society of Christian en-
deavor at 6:3O pm. Seats free and everybody
welcomed.
There are forty-two CONGREGATIONAL
churches in the limits of Chicago.-RcIi-
.giouS Herald.
Narayan Sheahadri is one of the collere
converts in India; and he has been the
means of bringing thousand heathen into
the Christian fold.
In the Methodist tabernacle at Spokane
Falls, Washington, an endowment fun
of $4,000 for Spokane college was raised
in a short time.-NdshUiue Christian id
pocGte.
fn the New Hebrides there is babel
ofetongues, but the Presbyterian mission
aries have reduced twelve of them to
writing. The seventeen missionaries la
boring on the group are all busy with the
work of translation.
Miss Sharp, the well-known teacher in
Africa, has ten students from the dark
continent who are prepared for a better
education than her school proposes. She
wants to send them to this country to have
them prepared for missionaries in Africa
Thirty years ago the first Christian
church in Japan was organized with six
teen members; now there are 80 churches
with $500 members. In five years the
members have increased from $50 to 433:
the native ministers, so to 142; hcentiates
and helpers, from 100 to 297
Outside of the thousand of churches in
xLondon, there are five hundred missionary,
ksg9rkers. They visit the slums and rum
holes, and are subjected to many dangers.
During the warm season open air meetings
are held every day and night on the streets
and in the parks.-The Church of To-dau.
OF the three Scandinavian lands-Den-
mark, Norway, and Sweden-the Norweg
ians claim to be the best glvers to the mis-
sion cause, they giving about five cents per
head to SwedenS two and Denmark's one
On the whole, the three lands have in the
Lutheran mission work one hundred mis-
sionaries in the field, with a total col
lection of 100000.
The year to come viii be very much what
you make it. You may not be able to
control its events, but you can, to a large
extent, determine whether those events
shall help or hinder you in the yyay to
heaven. Without your co cooperation, the
best things Will avail you little: with faith
fitness in service. the most bitter herbs
will give forth an agreeable odor. and
possess healing virtue.-Zion's Herald.
The intimation is thrown out from time
to time that there will be trouble in our
church over religion-that there will be a
split in the church. The time was when
threats Of secession and rebellion had
an intimidating effect. but NOT
now. The Presbyterian church will
go forward in strict obedience
to the constitution and laws of the
church. 1t will follow the method pro-
vided in the constitution for its own amend
ment-which being done, whatever the re-
suit, yea or nay, all Presbyterians will
agree to make it unanimous-Tbe In,
ksrior.
u TIE Central Christian Advocate Methodist
&.ys: "Dr. Talmage is certainly the prince
ohministerial showmen and sensationalists.
He is now or was recently in Palestine. and
certain newspapers of this country are
publishing sermons that, their readers are
informed, were preached at various places
In the holy land on the Sunday previous
to their publication. And one reading
these sermons, not knowing the facts in
the case, gets the impression that they
were taken to the places named and sent
by cablegram to the papers. The facts in
the case are that they were all prepared
beforehand out of the guide-books and
works OF others: the scenes and feelings
are all simulated. Barnum could hardly
beat this, if his conscience were not
too tender TO keep him from making the
trial''
HE, Canadian Baptist says: ave OBJ
~ % the compulsory study of the Bible in
ou public schools for two reasons, which.
to most Baptsts at least, must be sufficient
We object first, because we do not think a
political government is either authorized
TO prescribe or competent to direct re-
igious instruction. We do not think our
correspondent would like to send his chill
dren to study the New Testament under the
guidance of an agnostic or an irreligious
man. We Go not think he would like to
trust the civil government, whose mem
bers may at any time be agnostics, or ir-
religious, to apply religious test to ascer-
tain the Christian character and creed of
public-school- teachers. There is the first
dilemma. We object to government COM
pulsion in the matter in the second place.
because we deem it unjust and therefore
unrlghteous-and we think our ideas of
Justice and righteousness in the case are
"a A.aoc %h<arr
or the popular majority. to compel the mi
nority to pay taxes for the teaching of a
creed which they do not believe If ra- !
u3Aalists were in the majority in the State, |
Xwould not like to have rationalism com
ptasorily taught in these schools. We may
not do evil that good may come. The only
safe ground, the only New Testament |
ground, SO far as we can see, is, then, to
forbid the state to NEEDLE with religious
instruction. 1t is not the place of the
civil ruler to attempt to steady the Ark of
God.
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