Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-10
UNION MEETINGS
ARE SUCCESSFUL.
Large Crowd Attends Initial Re-
yiyal Service Of City
Churches.
AT FIRST METHODIST CHURCH.
Series viii Continue All Week With
Meetings At Noon aud Evening
Each Day,

The frat Of the series Of Union Evan
gelistic meetings, which 1t Is planned
to hold throughout the week az the
First Methodist Episcopal chudch, be-
ginning at 1880 and s p. m, daily, con-
yened last night. AZ the close Of the
service all who wished to pledge them
selves 10 live nearer - the Christian
standards OF life, were asked to rise,
and every seat was Immediately va
Gated. The s,orm which gathered at
tire hour OF opening prevented the at
tendance uOm being large, hut several
hundred earnest mel were present,
ON the stand were seated Rev, Benz
ilmin Young, REV. ". M, Paden, Rev.
IA, }. Talbot, REV. 7. w. Pinkorton,
Key. r. a. ompkn, and Rev. d. A.
Brown.
Mr. Plnkerton opened with prayer
and was followed by several hymns
from the congregation. teN' MI.
simUkin explained the nature OF the
service, ana followed with a briet ad-
dress on the proposed meetings, ana
the aims hoped to be reached through
hiding them.
The benedictlon was pronounced by
Dr. Brown.
FAREWELL TO OLD CHURCH.
Rev. W. NJ. Paden preached his fare
well sermon at the First presbyterian
church yesterday morning, bidding
goodbye to the structure which Tor
thirty years has housed the PresDy-
a a
stead OF to his congregation, which
next Sunday will move with him TO the
new structure at the corner Of Brig
ham and G. streets. The new church
is not yet completed, but the Sunday
school rooms are ready for occupancy
and the meetings viii be held there
Rev. Mr.. Paden took his theme from
the occasion, running over the work
of those who had preceded him IN the
ministry, and pointing from their WORK,
the truth that all Christian service Is
In unity and seeking the same end, The
Seen and the Unseen was his SUBJECT
| lie said In part;
May we not find ground for good
courage in such thoughts as We sum
up the work of EeneTatiOl-ds we
stand where old things end or seem to
end and new things begin or seem to
begin? Have we had wise and earnest
| leaders, men of faith like Welch and
| Colonel CritchloW, men of eager hope
| like McNiece and COyne, men of love
| and prayer like Arnold ana Osbourn?
| Let is initiate their Christian cont-
| dence. Have we been able to raise
| tens of thousands for Christs work In
| the past? We are not poorer but rich
| err, now; the great communion to which
we belong is not poorer, but richer ana
| our Master Is as ever rich and ready
| to aid us beyond our most sanguine exc
| pectationss,
AT UNITY HALL.
At Unity hall, Rev. FRANK Fay Eddy
preached the second sermon In his Sc
! rles on the epochs In the life Of Christ
/ Following his talk upon the Dreaming
! Christ" which covered the era Of prep
! aration, he took up the period of work.
| under the title OF The ConquerinS
Christ" After picturing the scene
Of His baptism at the hands OF John
| and the public proclamation that no
| was the Christ, the speaker said
! "Then He was comforted. Jesus was
a man, passionate and intense. He was
neither a god nor a cold and bloodless
| saint. on the wings OF a beautiful
| and splendid aspiration Ills spirit had
| rose to an ecstatc seventh heaven, and
sweet and clear had come the divine
| response. Then, rapt ana inspired, ne
sought the solitudes, barren and waste,
of the mountain side. He went feeling
| Himself man Of God. a prophet fresh
from His home of inspiration. But
| with such nature the hour Of reaction
was sure.
THE spiritual conquest OF Himself
| completed, Jesus went forth 10 period
| of Joyous ministry. The shadow of the
cross had not yet fallen across his life,
He did not yet appreciate the magnI-
| tude Of the task, or how SLOW Is the pro-
cess of spiritual regeneration In re-
| luctant, dull-eared world. Gladly and
! freely He spent Himself, Feerlessly
! He cleansed temples, preached glad It'd
| ings, served and loved, disregardng the
! restrictions and laws Of His own Jew
! lsh folk
splendid and inspiring is the spec
| tacle of the young Christ conquering
| Himself and, nothing doubling, going
forth TO the conquest Of the hearts Of
| men,
PREsBYTERIANS IN SIAM,
Mrs ]. A, Eakn Of Bangkok, Siam,
spoke yesterday afternoon In the First
! Presbyterian church on the work be-
| ing conducted there by the Presby
terrain denomination In this country,
There are but " missionaries now IN
Bangkok, a city of 900 inhabitants,
! and their lahorers are never ending,
Within recent years many OF the GUS
toms OF the Anglo-SaXon race have
been introduced, and hospitals have
| been erected with American doctors IN
charge. The mortality is very heavy
among infants. az native women do not
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