The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-06

pastor IN Paris, and legislator as well,
VINO Is the author of some historico-religi-
Gus works of high character, has been
erected member of the French academy.
lt is the highest honor to which French
man OF culture and literary or scientific
gifts can aspire, and this, it is said, is the
nrst time 1t has eyer fallen to Protestant
pastor.
The Lutheran is, doubtless, the most
polyglot church in America, not even ex-
cepting the Roman Catholic Her minis
uers preach the gospel to her people of vari-
GUS nationalities in more languages than
lhose OF any other denomination. These
are English, German, French, Swedish,
Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Lettish, Bo-
hemlan (at Minneapolis), Wendish Tin
Iexas), Hungarian (at Freeland, Pa.),
Slavonlan Cat Streator, Ill.,
A STRONG DENOMINATION.
The Methodists are the strongest religi-
GUS denomination in the south and thew
nearly all belong to the southern organiza-
ton of that church. The northern branch
organized churches and conferences in the
Southern States soon after the war. and
stlll maintains them, but they have never
made much Roadway. The Northern
Methodist church is very rich, and there
are evidences that it intends to make large
investments in the south. 1t has completed
plans Tor the establishment of a high grade
school at Bluffton, Ala, to be known as the
University of the Southland. The city has
donated IN lands and money $500, 200 to the
enterprise, and DR.. Mann, who is at the
mead OF the movement, says 81, 500. 600 will
be expended on the main building, which
is to be an enormous structure of white
marble. Ground will be broken on April
10Th, and the work completed as speedily
as possible.
THE PAPAL BUDGET
Ior lo9O arranges for an expenditure of
i,OS5,000 francs for the year, which is 3OO,-
o0Ofrancs less than 1889. The leading items
are ,925, 800 francs for salaries of the car
dlnals over against 100000 in 1889; the
dl1ferent executive departments cost 1,O0O,-
OOO francs, and here a saving of fully so
per cent. is made; the pensions for the
Papal army have been reduced from $50. 600
TO 10000 francs; the support for needy
cnurches and priests has increased from
5SU,OO0 to $4,000 francs; aims to poor
churches and priests in Rome, Italy, and
foreign countries make a total of 400, 600
francs, little more than it was year ago:
the Papal movements demand 300 600 francs
the diplomatic corps, 100000 francs; the
maintenance of the Papal palace also 30O,-
900 francs. The Pope has reduced his
stables to twelve horses, four of which are
reserved for his personal use.
CoNDEMNING CREMATION.
AS already announced, the archbishop of
Paris has issued instructions to his clergy
commanding them to condemn the practice
OF cremation, which he regards as 'sthe
triumph of materialism over religious
spirltualism." M. Ernest Renan thinks
that this pastoral letter is in conformity
with true Christian doctrine. He points
out that the great dread o. the early Chris
tlans was lest their bodies should be torn
by the wild beasts or burned after their
death. For myself" adds M. Renan, las
| do not believe in the resurrection of the
body as the dogma of the church describes.
1T matters very lutte to me in what way nv
body may be disposed of when l am dead.
Whether it be burned or buried or CON
sumed by the birds of the air or the beasts
OF the field is to me matter of the most
complete Indifference. My objection to
cremation is that it must be very painful
to the feelings of the survivors. Burial is
sad enough, but how much sadder is burn
ing n'-Er.
THE IMAGE OF GOD.
The very first fact mentioned In the his
tory of man is compendium of the whole
OF spiritual science, human and divine
And God created man in his own image. -
What pity that agnostics and evolution
lists do not credit that first grand truth /!
The nature, the character, the dispositions
OF God are no longer a mystery to the man
who knows that he himself is spiritually
an image of God. His own soul is mirror
in which he sees face to face the image of
the Creator. What he is, God is. That is,
what he is by his original nature, as created.
not as defaced and corrupted by sin. His
sense of justice, his benevolence his
truthfulness, his paternal instinct, even
his tilial instinct, his sense of beauty
whatever in his soul he may have of good
is an exact counterpart of the same quail
lty as God. In fact, we might perhaps saw
that the only difference between man in his
deprayed nature and God is that God is in
finite while man is finite. What difficulty,
then, can there be in seeing and knowing
God almost as Moses did-face to face?
Evolutionists, too, would find in the same
significant and controlling fact nopler and
more glorious explanation of the origin of
mankind. No evolution of matter can pro-
duce the living image of God, for God is
not matter and matter is not spirit Even
though we might imagine that gradual
process of evolution is implied when it is
said, And the Lord Coo formed man of
the slime of the EARTH" yet this was only
the animal man, and the next step was
clearly an act not of evolution, but of
original creation. "And breathed into his
face the breath of life, and man became a
living soul.n-EG.