The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-04-16

but to become Catholic. He entered her com
munion, made his submission to the Pope, whom
less than three months before his conversion, he
considered to be antichrist. The younger
brother unwilling to sacrifice the Protestant prn
! cpes instilled into his mind from childhood fol
lowed these to their logical conclusion, and, to be
consistent with himself, rejected the authority of
the Bible and all forms of revealed religion.
But the new ideal of Rev. Hills is OH an eco
nomic basis. 1t is a merging process. Instead of
many churches where different creeds are preached
there will be zone noble building centrally located,
crowded from Sunday morning to Saturday night, a
church that is the center of the social, the mu-
steal, the literary and the ethical life of the COM
munity." To this amalgamating process the diff
ferent sects will naturally object. AS long as Mr.
Hills remains a Protestant, and tenaciously adj
heres to the principles of the reformers the diff
ferent churches should command his respect The
more the merrer If they feel like building church
es, the reverend gentleman should be the last to
censure them. Mr.. Dowie and Mrs. Eddy are en-
titled to their opinions of Biblical lore and will not
go into the merging process. When finally accom-
plished, /. e., the union, it will be something like
union labor and non-union labor. To bring the nom
union churches into the trust there will be strike
greater than that of the sixteenth century. But
Rev. n. D. Hills reasons this way: That when the
non-union churches see the advantages. $50
cially, unsteady, literary, and ethicaly," they
Will come into the union. In New York for ex-
ample, the sweeps, scavengers and stevedores will
be socially in with the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers
and Goulds i'll the big church; their children will
mix ndlscrimlnately at the grand muscales; the
gamlns and future aspirants for Yale honors will
indulge IN the same literary entertainments, whilst
all will be governed by the same ethical code All
these advantages will force the non-rnion churches
into the union. This roseate glimpse of the prom
sed land, where all will soon be landed when the
zig temple is erected cannot fail to appeal to the
senses, If not to The ears will be gratifed
When all the musical talent of the community is
organized and unified, music will become a great
moral force" 1t is strange how Christ and his
postes never thought of 'the great moral force
# music" when they were preaching Gods word
then again, when all the teaching forces are unit
d, the Sunday school will again become popular"
must be unpopular under the present SYSTEM
nd, If so, why! Is 1t for the same reason that
on-union labor is unpopular! Another advantage
Inch will be hailed with JOY by all classes of per-
ons Is: Instead of ten preachers there ought to be
lree. Still another: "In this church of the flu
Ire there will be great sermon in the morning
lat represents the thought and study and prayer
the six days and nights This great sermon viii
a>entirely different from the sermon preached by
lie Savior on the hillside 1t would not do to tell
e bankers and railroad magnates of New York
no occupy pews adjoining the plebeians that ''the
Dor are blessed; SO are the meek and clean of
cart" No. this great sermon will be on the cur
mt topics of the day. It will be sensational and
5-to-date, 1t viii be masterpiece and cannot
ii to tickle the ears of the rich and poor alike
hat big church is coming sure we are told 1t is
e last straw that Professionalism depends on, to
We it from infdelity.