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Show SERVICES 1 PARK CEOSEJi SEASON Minister Comments Upon Success That Has Attended the Gatherings. Sunday services In Liberty park, which have been held during the summer months, were closed for tho season yesterday yes-terday afternoon with a well attended service in which ministers from four Salt Lake City churches participated. The Rev. D. E. Carter, pastor of Liberty Park Methodist Episcopal church, delivered the sermon, taking his text, from the story of Naaman. the leper, as it is recounted re-counted in the first fourteen verses of the fifth chaptor of Second Kings. The Rev, Mr. Carter told how the cHp-taln cHp-taln of the Assyrian king's host had been cured of his disease and made whole by obeying the Instructions of Ellsha. and ho applied the lesson to modern timos. The Prophet Eilsha drove out the leprosy lep-rosy from Naaman, just as Christianity will drive sin, the moral leprosy, from our souls. If we will but follow instructions, instruc-tions, was the substance of the sermon. There was a good attendance at the services, practically every church In the city being represented in the congregation congrega-tion The scripture lesson was read by the Rev. B. F. Bronson, pastor of the Rio Grande Baptist church, the Rev. Frank O Leonard, pastor of the Third Presbyterian church, conducted the song service, and the Rev. Will A. Betts. pastor pas-tor of the First Methodist Episcopal church, pronounced the benediction. When asked last night what, he thoufcht of the success of tho meetings In Liberty park during the summer months, the Rev. Mr. Carter said that In his opinion they had been a decided success. "There has always boon a gratifying turnout," he said, "and those who have attended the services have at all times been attentive at-tentive and apparently Interested. I believe be-lieve that the meetings should and will be carried on again next summer." Concerts In Liberty park will also be discontinued for the rest of the year. Many enjoyed the last of the programme which was given yesterday afternoon, and many expressions of appreciation were heard for the splendid music that has been furnished to visitors in the park during the summer months. |