The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-22

but there has got to be something to
make him stop and think says DR..
Reisner, lust as stores have special
sales, and III every line of business
there comes time when all energy is
focused on one thing.
Christians in Washington.
Appeals for aggressive evangelistic
services to be held in all Washington S
Protestant churches this month gave
rise to vigorous denunclations of the
spiritual life of the capital, due to pc
culiar social conditions, at an interde-
nominational mass meeting of pastors.
Rev. DR.. Samuel II. Woodrow, in
speaking OF the difficulty OF maintain
ing strong spiritual life in Washing
ton, declared that in all his experience
in church work it is the hardest city
for the churchmen and laymen to be-
come Christians, with which he has ever
had 70 deal
Whenever any church duty was be-
fore the laymen, he declared, social
duties challenged them, with the re
suit that a great majority say that
they haven't time TO be Christians;
that to he a Christian would mean to
give up those social duties which their
position in society require that they
submit to.
DR.. Woodrow explained that. be-
cause of the peculiar environments
which prevail in the city, as the seat
of government, Its position among
other cities is unique and that strong
pressure is brought to bear against the
church by reason Of these environ
ments.
Authorized Version 800 Years Old.
1T has been agreed both in Great
Britain and in America by representa-
tive bodies TO commemorate next year
the tercenteDarv of the completion in
1911 OF the Authorized Version OF
the English Bible published by com
mand of James /. In London there will
he a united gathering In the Royal
Albert hall on Wednesday, March 20,
and it is expected that the Sunday be-
preached in many places of worship
throughout the United Kingdom In
the United States the celebration will
probably be a month later
The returns of the Congregational
churches in Great Britain show an in
crease of eightyfour places of worship,
making the total number 50l6, with
accommodations for 1,S20,963 persons,
IN increase Of 1881. On the other
hand. the number Of communicates is
493, ,5S3, decrease of 1887. In the
Sunday schools there are II .020 teach
ers, an increase of 1892, with 706,04l
scholars.
The "British Baptist Handbook
for 1911. just published, records, for
the fourth consecutive year. de-
crease in the membership Of the Bap-
tist churches in Great Britain. There
are in the United Kingdom 3Os0
churches associated with the denomina-
ton with Il total baptized membership
al 21G ESn of gTTS Ag -,
each of the three preceding years. the
decline is ascribcd chiefly to the re-
action from the Welsh revival which
oarently has not yet spent its force
The churches provide seatin~ accommo-
dations for 1862, $40 worshipers, and
, there are 576,4S scholars in their Sun
day schools.
Sermon on Mount as News
The Monmouthshire, Eng. Evening
Post of Christmas eve published the
sermon on the mount as it's leading ar.
ticle. with the following preface:
Tomorrow is the anniversary of
the birth Of the founder of Christian.
ity; md it seems to US that it is well
to have before US the gospel which
He came to preach. We therefore
print below the whole of the greatest
sermon that ever was preached-His
sermon on the mount. This is course
which is absolutely unprecedented in
daily journalism; but bearing in mind
that newspaper commands n larrer
con "rngation than any minister of the
gospel, and that it is read by a multi.
tude, including many whom tho
churches do not reach, we feel that VIC
have full justification for departure
IN regard to which. as Ruskin aptlv
said in different connection. the
only stran2eness is that this thing
should be so strange -