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Show IN THE HOUSEso7 t.SUrk-.Ch.p.,. ' I J he services at St. Mirk-, t were well attended yesteni,.. cbl and the words of the spe5,1,lon' " close attention. The la, -sermon related to St. M-uiu nf sacrifices. The nJj , devotion of St. Matthew tr Z !?' ' -in his noble sacrifice of p0iti . and command to follow the in, 1 1 of the Lord Jesus Chris, "Vs 'T" Christ calls no one should u 1 follow; tbat the Lord s wa ' S"al" unfathomable and past liming, . always for the best. ;i First M. E. Church, Rev. Dr. Mabry preached iu t1(,r-Methodist t1(,r-Methodist church lnstevenint? ft i .nanSvii 32; .'Hewhosd0;1 , own son but delivered him n fo . , how shall He not with Him frp,.i, us all things." -1 8' There is a tendency, even., Christian people, to fear tint God not bo doing for us the very w a This is the result of our Lr in life. The speaker then liS to passage on an express train oX are traveling the earth at 1000 mL hour, and we are apprehend ,. : trip may be attended by peril ,nH culty. ButGodisourVattS' . He is ready to do anything for,, need have no fear, "tte spar.nl n, own Son, but gave Him up f,lr 1 not an angel or a good ,aB-.wh ;: would have been a sacritiee-biit ' own Son. The speaker dwelt on great atoning sacritice, the BivinV God of His own .Son, the delivWiii Him up for saenhee on the cross ii all should not perish but have evw ing life. " The Swedish Lutliprnn Chnrrli. Rev. Dr. Doerr preached at t Swedish Lutheran church last nijn his theme being the old familiar one Christ and Him crucified. Ia his d-course d-course the reverend gentleman r ferred to the life and character of Paul and bis fidelity to the doctrine Christianity. Paul was a man who intensely believed iu the godliness the Redeemer that when he was calii upon to prove the doctrines to wh:. he adhered he merely replied: "G forbid that I should boast anvtliimrin a Saviour crucified." In this day ni age when a christian is called ujioq I defend his faith, he refers to the goo ness, the sublime character of ii Saviour, the excellence nf the plan redemption, tho purity of the ideas II advanced, all the learning of the men bers of the church of God is called in! question. And how different from Pa are they. Here was a man who one of the most learned men of I ; time, who was a savant in reality, co.; petent to cope with the greatest seliolai of the day, and yet the only answer i made was to boast a Saviour cnirilic Why? He knew the religion of Chri was the true one, and had the evident in his heart. What a blessed sense o realization ! The Y. M. C. A. , There was a good attendance at tli Young Men's Christian associati'i meeting at 68 East Second South, am very ' interesting services were liell The singing of tho choir was excellent General Secretary Murphy will'arriv in Salt Lake about the loth of the com ing month to take general charge. TI.-present TI.-present room in which their meeting are held is too small to accommodat tho members of the association. Ar rangoments are being made to secure more commodious hall, whereaivgulai . course of lectures may be given, t bath room and gymnasium will also U provided for. The Church of Jesui Christ. Bishop Wilford Jones was the speake. at tho Tabernacle yesterday. His rt marks were attentively dwelt upon bv his hearers. He attributed the fuiimlii of tho Mormon church as tho diiec result re-sult of God's design and that the Latter Day Saints were the chosen servants o; the Lord to lead the world into hetur ways, to raise up the fallen aud nt for the wounded in the great battle o. lile. His address was of very near!" an hour's length and was full of interest inter-est and wisdom, both to Mormon ant gentile. l'irst Congregational Church. Rev. J. H. Thrall preached to lie first congregational society yesterday, in Hammond hall, from Job six-, ,-"I ,-"I know my Redeemer liveth." It is not strange that Handel show have found in the book of Jon a uune fo'r the darkest aud loftiest strains oj his Messiah, one of the sweetest and loftiest of oratories, said the speaker. Job is an old testament gospel. Tenipt-ations Tenipt-ations are resisted; afflictions borne; n eternal wisdom and goodness vindicate-even vindicate-even in direst pain and privation; the redeemer revealed to man tlie s . ner aud the sufferer, the siireijiacv -tho spirit over the flesh, and the n triumph of the spirit in and thro" -the flesh by humility, obedience faith-all this stands forth id the of Job as clearly as in the life of tw;. The subject is full of revelatwMj God the Redeemer, "I have of thee by the hearing of the ear. " now mine eye seeth thee. i , the last word of this ancient paiw' as of the christian faith. -He tuatn seen me hath seen the rat""- , know that my Redeemer livetM that he shall stand in the last !' ' . the earth." Have we christians" ; ( nineteenth century got beyond u think the world has not adva" step in spiritual conscionsnc?s sua days of Job. The nian of today cites history, authority ana ni -. a sufficient source from whicn , u our knowledge of divine things, is . by the last word of Job, "I hve of tnee by thee hearing of Uiee .1 now mine eyes seeth thee. ' J in heaven or earth can ha w 1 soul uuless it be of the same w the soul. Force is nothing i, projectile. The forces that . d by spiritual nature accomplish 1 w burling spiritual nature ag. -it When the Soul realizes that (,od is everywhere, the few iect above the perished body seems 0 . thinnest gauze. The speaker a making a wide acquaintance r- jj with a hish and vitalizing. fn "m-e:i Christ, and closed by reciting N poena on Immortal Love. |