The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1906-11-16
ELY VISITED
BY THE BISHOP
Episcopal Services held Sunday
Morning and Evening by Bishop
Spaulding Of Salt Lake

Bishop Spaulding of Salt Lake came
to Ely Saturday evening and was the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. W. N. McGill until
Monday morning. He held Episcopal
services at Good Time Club hall Sunday
morning and evening. He had q good
congregation in the morning, but in the
evening the hall was crowded to the
doors. The Bishop is sincere, earnest
man and one of the best speakers. At
the morning service he took his text
from chapter 13 of the Gospel Accord
ing to st Luke, verses % and "a:
Then said one unto the Lord, are
there few that be saved?
And he said unto them, strive to enter
in at the strait gate: for many, say
unto you, will seek to enter, and shall
not be able
In commenting on the text the Bis
hop spoke of another question asked of
Jusus by his disciples in the case of the
man who was born blind. When they
inquired whether this man sinned or his
father that he was born blind A very
interesting question involving as it does
the theory that sin is the cause of all
sickness or importation and also limiting
at the then prevalent belief of rein
carmation. But Jusus in both cases
declined to answer or discuss the phlos-
phical points involved, confirming his
attention to the practical To the
blind man he gave light and in regard
to the question of the text as to how
many are saved he admonished to look
to their own conduct that it entitled
them to be among the number.
From this the Bishop concluded that
the bushes of Christ was not to answer
catch questions. But to teach men to
be good, and the business of the church
should be, and is primarnially, the same.
Although the church has at various
times been physician, artist and teacher
for the world, preserving in it's monas-
teries and cloisters the learning of the
ancients from the tidal wave of bar
barism that swept the earth through
the middle ages, these things were
merely incidental to its real work of
teaching men to be good. ''It is easier"
said the Bishop, to say prayers five
times days than it is to be good"
Mr.. Bull, it was announced, would be
in Ely sometime in December to hold
services. Apparently the scarcity of
labor is felt also in clerical circles as
no one has yet been found to under
take the work of building up the church
in Ely as resident clergyman.
In the evening service he took for
his text from chapter Is, Sc
verse, St Paul's first epistle to the
Corinthins:
THE strength of sin is the law"
"This is strange statement for a
lawyer to make" said the Bishop,
land yet the man who made it was a
lawyer-A student in the greatest law
school of antequity-so decide what he
meant we must note the connection in
which the statement is made. 1t is at
the close of great argument for
Human Immortality Paul in the
chapter which is usually read at the
Solemn Devine for the burial Of the
dead reviews all the evidence for the
Immortality Of the Soul-the proof from
Resurrection of Jesus-from the inher-
ent bringing of the human heart from
the manifest inequality Of life here from
the analogy of nature. Having
feared that death is but an event in