The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-30
BEAUTIFUL CHURCHES
ARE THE PRIDE OF ZION
While Latter-day Saints Are Most Nu-
merous, All Denominations Are
Well Represented.
Catholics the Wealthest Congregation of the City, Now Com
petng Magnificent Cathedral.

bishop and his two councillors. gather
in the ward amusement hail where a
tseparate building is provided for that
purpose. and in fact lead what, if il
were not for certain well defined linn
its. would be a practically autonomous
religious life. The bishop and his
cOunselIors not only administer the re-
/ ligious rites of the church, like the
! sacrament. visit the sick and poor and
administer charity and take charge Of
the ward finances, but they settle all
civil disputes that may be brought be-
| fore them.
/ The autonomous idea is further car
/ Tied ont by each ward having its own
Mutual Improvement associations
for young men and women. They COM
I bine instruction in church discipline.
with social evenings, and serve gener-
ally TO keep the younger brethren i'm
/ line.
Withdrawing From Business.
| The Mormon church is not. of course,
partak;ng of the same relative progress
as the other churches. Therefore its
activities during the past year cannot
/ be pointed out so cOncTetely as can
those OF the Other churches. While they
are building and adding to their mem
/ misunderstanding N shOrt-the Nor
mon church does not have to. 1t is
/ there" already. In fact. its most no
/ ticeable tendency last year was TO
withdraw itself to some extent from the
/ commercial activities which through
its heads it has in the past taken part
/ in. The most noticeable move in this
direction was the withdrawal from the
| Utah Light and Power company Of
those interests who held stock in the
company in trust for the church.
Growth of Unitarians.
/ While in the immediate past it has
! not been large numerically, the Uni
tartan church has shown signs of activ-
! ity during the year. The present pastor
of the First Unitarian church, Rev.
Frank Fay Eddy. has done the pTelim-
/ mary work of starting a new church in
/ Ogden. and as a result the headquar-
/ tiers of Rev. William ThurstOn Brown,
! field secretary of the Rocky mountain
division, will probably be made in Og-
/ den early this year. The Unitarian
church, since its inception here by DR..
Utter. now of Denver, twelve years ago.
has. of course, been subject TO changes
of policy. 1t may be said, therefore.
that the present policy of the church ~
! essentially railroads.&c.. By taking its
stand upon ratiOnalsm, the Unitarian
/ society. says Mr. Eddy, wants 10 define
its logical position IN the religious life
of the city and to keep as far as pos
I
water on both shoulders" The pres
ent parish strength Of the society is
200 families
Presbyterians Have Misfortune.
The chief event in the Presbyterian
year book was the completion of the
new church building on Brigham and
c streets The event was followed by
a tragedy. when, during a hurricane IN
September, the great east window,
magnificent stained glass reproduction
Of ar English cathedral window, stand
ing forty feet high. and which cost the
church $4,000. was blown i'm. The darn
age wrought in the interior OF the
church by its fall has driven the con-
sregation out ana services are now be-
ing held in another room in the church
building The auditorium, il is expect
ed. will be restored by the time this
writing appears. The missionary work
Of the church last year has resulted IN
. a Sunday school enrolment, including
the mission schools in the southwest
part of the state of 500. While The work
of the chureh's missionary society has
been a feature of the year. The actual
adult membership of the church Is 5eo-
The Methodist Episcopal church in
Salt Lake marked the year by the
building of the new First Methodist
1 Episcopal church. which marks new
era III GtluIcn Dul4UlilS III ltAC fNI't- Il 10
plans, which We're drawn in the east,
sacrifice the old conventions of eccle-
| siastical building to the solution of The
space and the acOustical problems ~
! consequence the MethOdists have a
! church which will seat 1500 people,
/, while it looks as if only half that num-
Der could be squeezed into the build
! ing. Late in the year an organ. said
/. to be the most complete in the state,
barring the tabernacle organ. was in
: stalled The present membership Of
] the church is $50
Z New Church for 5aptists.
: Among the sects who have outgrown
= their quarters in the past year are the
Baptists. In all the church has two
6 congregations here. the First and the
D East Side the latter also keeping up
{ two mission chapels in the city. The
0 latter church has a membership of $50,
2 and that is as many as the church will
{ seal. So a new church building became
Y the order Of the day. To that end an
i option was obtained on a lot on First
T South street. nearly opposite the Epis-
copaI cathedral. and building will pro-
= ceed there as soon as the financial con-
e ditiOn of the church will permit.
QUITE A MOUTHFUl.