The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-19
CHURCH AND CREED
The Eesses and Gains in Chaaac-
ter-Building,
THE. CHURCH AND REFORMATION
The Services to. be Held at the Va1Ious
places Of Worship To-day-Tbs-
Better Day Hastens.
Religious services viii be held III the
various churches to-day as follows:

various churches to-day as follows;
SAESTs.-Salt Lake Stake of Zion, Angus M.
cannon, president; Joseph E. Taylor and
Charles w. Pearose, counselors. Meeting this
afternoon at 2 O'Clock.
ST PAUIis- CHAPEL-Holy communism at IL
am. Sunday school at 300 pm. Evening
prayer and eatechising at 3:45 Evening: PRAYER
and sermon at G:30.
| ST. MARKS CATHEDRAL-Holy communion
at $50 a. IA Sunday school at 9.45 a. N
class at $50 p. N. Evening prayer and sermon
at 80 pm
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURGH-West
Third South street, near Main. Brainard Thrall
pastor Services at II am. and 7:30 pm. Mr.
Thrall will preach in the morning and Rev c.
l.. Libby In the evening. Sunday school at 1915
pm Young peoples society of Christian en-
deayor meeting at $50 pm. Seats free and
strangers cordially welcomed.
BAPTIST CHURCH-Corner Second South and
Second West streets. Sunday school at 10 q m.
Preaching at II am and 80 pm Young peo-
pie S meeting at 6:45 pm.
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Worship at II a.
m, and preaching by the pastor, r. c.
McNiece. Sabbath school at 1925 Young
Peoples society at $40. Evening worship at
30 and preaching by Rev. S. NJ. johnson, pas
tor of the Twenty-lhird avenue Presbyterian
church of Denver. Seats free, at all these SER
vices
REoRGANrzED CHURcH--Preaching in the
Mission chapel on Second South street, East
at Up. m. and 1:30 p. m. Free invitation to all
Seats free
The man whose ideal is not above his
own best performance will steadily decline
IN his course of life-in comparison with
the low ideal that contented him to begin
with. 1t is better to have lofty ideal and
to strive toward it even afar off than to
have an ideal so low that it requires no
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| Times.
Nothing helps church more than the
spirit of good cheer-the kindly hopeful
word, the noting and the announcement of
| all that Is encouraging All this means
help, sympathy, faith in God, faith in the
minister, faith in the people. Set the op-
poslte OF all these going, fill the air with
gloom, give wings to idle gossip, be sure to
proclaim and add to what is or seems dis
couraging, utter complaint instead of ap-
proval, and 1t will be to the minister and
the church what an untimely frost is to the
fiowers.-Mid- Continent
Isn't the church getting above and be-
yond the reach of the conn., mon masses with
It's costly edifices, high salaried choirs
elaborate services and rigid rituals
Wouldn't little of the old-fashioned Cos
pei doctrine and gospel work do much to
lessen the breech which is daily growing
wider between church and people Why
not spend more time in going after men
ana less IN discussing the abstract PROPOSE
ton of means? The church must, of
course, decide this question for itself, but
1t is something in which all human kind
has an lnterest-Omaha Republican.
There can hardly be sillier utterance
imam that found on some lips, to the effect
that religion is not theology, but a life.u
and that IF the life be right, no matter
about the theology. Pray, upon what shall
the life be based if not upon the truths
that constitute theology? The idea of piety
toward God with no creed in the mind with
respect to God is an absurdity. The Bible
is not speculative book, but the duties
which it imposes rest on the profoundest
truths IN regard to God. 1t gives a creed
as the reason for deeds to be done.-Inds-
pendent.
hitting spirit is to throw ourselves on
t tne care OF God, prepared to meet his
blessings with gratitude and his trials with
resignation. AS the time flows we will
esteem 1t Gods most bountiful blessing,
ana tnlnk each moment too rich to souan-
DER. Inc years that carry US nearer the
grave should bring US SOLDERING sense of
responsibility to our Maker and an encour-
aging prospect of wellmerited rest that
follows profitaby- life. AS the
years marx the decay in physical powers,
they should record an elevation of spiritual
perceptions and an advance in moral en-
deavors.-Cdtholie Weekly.
In 1890, when our first census was taken.
only one-thirtieth of the population of the
United States lived in cities of 5000 or
oyer over; In 1900, one twenty-t fifth; 1SiO and
1870, one-twentieth; $780, one sixteenth.
1910, one twelfth; 1850, one-eighth: 1880
ones sixth; 1870, one-fifth; 1880, 22J5 per
cent, or nearly one fourth. From 1890 to
IoSo Inc whole population increased twelve
told, and the city population eighty six
1old The population of our country is
now estimated 60,000,00O, of whom about
l400O, 200, or nearly one-fourth, reside in
| cities, and of this number about one fifth
or $500, 900, are young men. If as has been
estimated, only 8 per cent. of our young
men are actual church members only Is
Per cent. attend church with any regular
lty, and that % per cent. is the limit of
those who ever go to church, three-fou
OF our young men, or 81, 900, 600, never go
to church at all.
THE BETTER DAY HAsTENs.
And that is the true consolation that
comes to us in the midst of smoke and
DUST OF the hard battle we are fighting for
the overthrow of error and evil and the
establishment of truth and righteousness
IN the earth. There is study. positive
gam II we measure not by years or de-
cades, but by generations the evidences
OF this are clear. Every year brings ms
nearer the land of promise. Christian
IDEAS are more widely diffused; the Chris
tlan spirit more and more pervades the
lie OF the nation; Christian ethics arc
becoming more and more the rule of CON
duct, and the organized institutions of C.rs-
tanlty are more and more recognized as
the chief factors in the worlds progress
Inc perfect 0nV will
and walt-work with the energy born of
love, and wait with the patience born of
falth-NdshriNc Christdnt Advocate.
THE CHURCH AND REFORM.
There is not now and never has been a
moral reform movement that did not owe
Its bone and sinew to the church. There
never would have been an abolition agita.
tion In this country if the Bible and Chris
llan training had no tgiven it birth.
It's Leaders were, with scarcely an
exception, from the orthodox churches:
aud though few impatiently
broke away from their churches,
many more remained in church fellowship
to their dying day In our own time so
far from the church being the bulwark of
the saloons whatever of moral power
there Is IN the agitation for the saloons
suppression is due to men and women who
nave been trained In Christian churches
ana are still honored and useful memters
OF these churches. Ii the enemies of the
saloon were composed only of those who
gain for themselves a brief notoriety bv
attacking the church, the religious press
and the clergy, on the ground of fancied
luke-warmness, the saloon might fear
lessly look forward to long lease of life.
instead OF now having "a certain fearful
expectation of judgment Tho Examiner
(BdptisD.