| Show 1' 02 RELIGION Saturday November The Salt Lake Tribune Fear of 'Mormon Menace' Boosted Protestant Utah 111 Continued from 1)-- women's orgAni7ntion News 1 W Home Missionary Society rallied ' about him and he organized First Congregational : said Mr Reherd Early Protestants certainly did not enter into a ' vacuum Mormon pioneers had settled in Utah nearly 20 years before and many did not welcome Protestant missionaries who reminded them of the persecution Latter-JaSaints suffered before the exodus to Utah "In 1866 Mr McLeod went east to raise money for the church and to testify before a committee of Congress regarding affairs in the territory of Utah" related Mr Reherd In a bit of diplomatic understatement he wrote: "A strong antagonism developed toward him in Utah and it seemed unwise for him to return" e writer and member Polly Harrington a of Ogden's United Church of Christ Congregational says an October 1866 marder figured in McLeod's decision not to return The murler of King Robinson superintendent of Salt Late City's Congregational Sunday School was never solved and gentiles saw his death as a Mormon Church sponsored assas: sination - free-lanc- 0 Mormonism Stymied Statehood: and its doctrine of celestial or plural marriage was : common Protestants among Utah's pioneer-erProtestants who abhorred polygumy joined with sympathetic congressmen to stymie Utah's repeated efforts to gain statehood and to urge Congress into legislapassing increasingly severe lion For some Mormon polygamy had a practical benefit It was a major money raiser As long as the Mot-mon Church openly practiced and encouraged it and as long as American society viewed it with eisgrust a Utah missionary minister could count on polygamy to generate liberal donations Mr Reherd recounted a number of church schools and churches wholly or in part financed through do- nations from Christians in the eastern United States One that evolved into a private school in : Salt Lake City owes its name to the memory of Ben jamin Rowland of Philadelphia His family provided : the 1st Avenue site for an Episcopal school for girls ' Rowland Hall-S- t that has since become the Mark's School But liberal mission support — and donations slackened after President Woodruff renounced polygamy "Missions declined rapidly after the Manifeqo" says the University's Mr May '‘There was the sense that the missions had succeeded because of the aban g a anti-polyga- ' - well-Vnow- n co-e- d : t J-t:- :1 w Ugh-Ris- Several churches are basing bazaars or fairs United Methodist Church 1740 S 500 East is having a bazaar from 10 am to 3 pm today El The Inner Light Center 3090 E 3300 South Suite 5 Salt Lake County will hold a boutique from 10 am to 6 pm today and 1 to 5 pm Sunday The Cathedral of the Madeleine 331 E South Temple Salt Lake City will hold its seventh annual Good Samaritan Fair Thursday through Nov 20 A telethon to solicit donations takes place Thursday a silent auction and games are scheduled Friday 6 pm to 10:30 pm and a rummage sale and Italian dinner will be Nov 20 from 9 am to 10:30 pm Proceeds benefit the cathedral's Good Samaritan Program - s Susan Chilton a program specialist for the Jordan School District will discuss -- Seven Develop k Individuals' mental Characteristics of 7 pm Wednesdav5 at Sandy's Hilltop United E 10600 South Methodist Church-91l- LDS Art Contest Deadline Nears a Salt Lake City's Centenary (Congregational) Utah Historical Society Salt Lake City's first First Presbyterian Church was at the corner of 200 South and 200 East donment of polygamy and the fact that there were very few converts" dried up surpluses Also: "The Panic of 1893 eastern congregations used to support missions" El No Room for Dead: The 19th century Mormon-Protesta- Wednesday is the deadline for entries in the Museum of Church History and Art's Third International Art Competition The contest is open to all members of the Saints EnChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y trants may submit one work of art relating to the theme "Living the Gospel in a Worldwide 5 Church" For details call 240-461- Evangehs I to Address Basinm People Evangelist and recording artist Dick Williams the featured speaker at a Nov 20 banquet of the International Fellowship of Christian Businessmen at the Olympus Hotel 161 W 600 South Salt Lake City The dinner costs $10 a person: Reservations can be made by calling Phil Miller at 7 3 or Paul Cur Al Alexander at 6 bett at will be Calvary Baptist to Celebrate 101st nt rift extended even to the dead The Rev Donald Baird pastor of Salt Lake City's First Presbyterian Church says that led to the creation of Mount Olivet Cemetery in the capital city in the couldn't "The main reason was that be buried in the city cemetery" he said "Secondly the Protestant community was successful in getting the military to help them secure a cemetery "I've never seen a document saying couldn't be buried but my impression is that made it difficult and expensive" he said The US Army provided the land and threw in some water rights from Red Butte Canyon above Fort Douglas It was enough for Congress said the Rev Baird It approved the transaction and specified that the cemetery's governing board be composed of Protestants Utah's first Episcopal bishop Daniel S Tuttle who served from 1867 to 1886 backed the cemetery because he felt Mormons did not maintain their burial grounds well said Kathryn Miller archivist for the Episcopal Diocese of Utah But "he didn't want to make enemies out of the Mormons" she said "He didn't speak out against the Mormon Church" It was a delicate balancing act even for a bishop who served in Utah after statehood in 1896 Utah Episcopal Bishop Franklin Spencer Spalding continually faced the dilemma said historian John Sillito Mr Sillito and Martha S Bradley Mormon historians wrote a profile for an Episcopal journal on the bishop who served from 1905 to 1914 "On the one hand as bishop of Utah he had to live with the Mormons" said Mr Sniff° "But to raise money he had to go back east and talk about the Mormon menace and polygamy" Salt Lake City's Calvary Baptist Church 532 E 700 South will observe its 101st anniversary Sun- 278-136- Greek Orthodox Missionary Visits SL The Rev Daniel Byantoro a Greek Ortho-- : He will participate in the Great Vespers service at 6 pm today at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral 300 S 300 West Salt Lake City and at Divine Liturgy at 10 am at Prophet Elias Greek Orthodox Church 5335 S Highland Drive Holla also will speak at a youth meeting at 6 day pm Sunday at Prophet Elias Church St Paul's Episcopal Church 261 S 900 East Salt Lake City will be the site of a Service of Remembrance Sunday at 4 pm British Deputy Consul General Mervyn Jones will be on hand to read letters of greeting from Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother A reception will follow the service Douglas Ward to Celebrate 50 Years: ExBaseball Star to Speak at ICS Salt Lake City's Douglas Ward will celebrate its 50th anniversary Nov 20 at the meetinghouse at 721 S 1200 East — the same meetinghouse that former LDS President David McKay dedicated 40 years ago Festivities begin at 6 pm and will feature a program and refreshments Former major league baseball pitcher Dave Dravecky whose career ended when he lost his arm to cancer in 1991 will speak at Intermountain Christian School Monday at 7:30 pm Tickets are $10 and are available at the school office 6515 S Lion Lane (3110 East) Salt Lake 1 City or by calling a Thanksgiving Service at Cathedral 942-881- Author Rig DIPii dox priest will visit Salt Lake's Greek Orthodox Community Nov 20-2- 1 to discuss and raise money for his mission in Indonesia St Paul's to Remember War Dead non-Morm- 943-667- 484-293- day with three services The Rev Sargent Nelson of Ogden's New Zion Baptist Church will preach at Calvary's 8 am service For the 11 am and 3:30 pm services the Rev Henry J Lyons of Bethel Metropolitan Baptist Church in St Petersburg Fla will preach mid-187- - Lecture to Reveal Iligh Rill' Traits Pews FROM THE It's Church Bazaar Season in SI 1001 McLeod arrived in I8C5 under the auspices of the 'American 13 1993 htsFest Fest Fest S leral Utah religious leaders will participatel in an interfaith Thanksgiving service Nov 21 Cathedral of the Madeleine 331 E South TemplC 4 in Salt Lake City The Most Rev William K Weigand bishop '0' the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City wilt be speaker at the 7:30 pm service -- Compiled by Peter Scarlet a Author Lee Ezell will share the story of her book about finding God's peace The Missing Piece Tuesday at Koinonia's Fall Banquet at the Holiday Inn Downtown 999 S Main Salt Lake Ms Ezell will speak at an 11:30 am luncheon and at a 6:30 pm dinner Komonia is a Christian -- r AC1 Charges Agamst Lardmal ATTEND THE CHURCII OF 1 if al mai" Dominate to 'Expected Bishops meeting l&- r'll UR CHOICE nexual-Abutly- e 4 Mta OF RELIGIOUS (CON CHURCH There's A Whole New 01014 71 Igh INDEPENDENT SCIENCE Gring Ore ) NEW THOUGHT 5448 South 900 Bost 265-860- 1 Rev Bonnie Apps Minisier ' By David GANNETT charges leveled at Cardinal Joseph Bernardin probably will over shadow pastoral messages on families and peace making at this year's annual gathering of the nation's Catholic bishops Bernardin 65 the spiritual leader of Chicago's 23 million Catholics — the nation's second largest archwas accused in a federal civil lawsuit Fri diocese r more than a decade day of sodomizing a ago The lawsuit was filed in US District Court in Cin cinnati by Steven Cook a former student at a Cincinnati-area seminary who now lives in the Philadelphia area The lawsuit seeks PO million in damages Also named in the lawsuit are the Rev Ellis Har sham a priest Cook says first abused him the Archdiocese of Cincinnati the Cincinnati archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk and Francis Voellmecke the for mer rector of the seminary Cook attended The lawsuit accused Pilarczyk and Voellmecke of being neg ligent in hiring Harsham Voellmecke is pastor of St Thomas Aquinas Church in Logan Bemardin who served as archbishop of Cincinnati from 1972 until 1982 has denied the allegations But the scandal is bound to dominate discussion among the some 275 members of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops when they open their annual four-da- y general meeting here Monday Bernardin is a former president of the conference and heads the group's Committee on Marriage and Family With almost weekly media reports nationwide about lawsuits accusing priests the public perception that sexual abuse of children is a widespread problem among Catholic priests may force the prelates to address the issue of pedophilia among the WASHINGTON : — Bauman NEWS SERVICE Sexual-abus- e teen-age- : : : : : : ' clergy The 188 Catholic dioceses in the United States have no national policy for dealing with sexual abuse by priests although ironically policy established by Bernardin in 1991 is used as a model by many dioceses around the country e Bernardin set up a hot line in Chicago to handle complaints and established an independent board to investigate such accusations There are no firm numbers on how many of the nation's 53000 Roman Catholic priests have engaged in sexual abuse or whether the number of abusers is rising or falling Yet some experts estimate the Catholic Church has paid $200 million since 1985 to settle sexual-abus- e cases And a recent US Catholic Bishops report acknowledged that the publicity about clerical pedophiles "has eroded Catholics' confidence in their priests and bishops" As past president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops Bernardin is chairman of the bishops' Committee on Marriage and Family The panel has spent three years drafting a pastoral message to families "Follow the Way of Love" that addresses topics from fidelity to divorce to taking time for child rearing and sharing housework If the statement is adopted by the bishops the letter will be presented to the United Nations in December to commemorate the International Year of the Family a 1994 UN event "It is a broad document that recognizes the struggles of families and that families are not perfect" said Joan McGuinness Wagner of the University of Dayton's Center for the Study of Family Development which helped to draft the document "It throws a net out and casts a lot of families in it" Wagner said "I would describe it as good news for families in the 1990s" toll-fre- Jr: 611 gbilt1 El ‘::Zylil 1 "III t - Mit PO INNER LIGHT CENTER SOUTH VALLEY UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST Service at 4 pin 6876 So 20th East 4:00 PM 9 944-97- r 582-868- 7 Chid Care Provided Nks FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH 569 So 13th East MOLENCE IN AhtERICA: A RESPONSE?" IS THERE Robert Booker Rev Tom Goldsmith - am Intergenerational Service Religious Education II Nursery Care 10:30-11:am D-- 1 throughout the United States The phone line draws about 200 calls a week "You will still see us writing let ters and articles in newspapers on Mr ! behalf of our organizations" Allen says "We are definitely not leaving or giving up" But the newsletters and meet : ings will be sorely missed by those 30 to 50 faithful I was able to meet other people of my persuasion They : 4end to be people who have open thinking" says longtime group member Sue Lockman of Kearns The members will continue to meet informally as friends ' "In a sea of pious religiosity ::and pompous bigotry" these exp4shanges provided a sense of corn- munity for Atheists says Mr Al-len One reason to give up the news- letters was lack of funding "We can't and wtWdn't make - demands for large donations of money and volunteer time" he says "After all one of the advantages of being an Atheist is our freedom from such 'spiritual abuse' American Atheists can't threaten you with hell if you don't help except possibly the hell of living in Utah with no other Atheists around" Madelyn Murray O'Hair organized American Atheists in 1963 after her successful battle to rid the public schools of mandatory prayers and Bible reading Today it has about 25000 members The Utah Chapter was organized March 6 1979 by Richard Andrews in response to concerns about the religious "domination of the state's laws and schools" Mr Allen believes the main achievements of the Utah chapter have been: Li An increased awareness of atheism in the community through articles ads on buses and participation on talk laows & of God Sound am 5 f Racial prejudices must be eliminated Science and religion must agree There is only one God Man was created noble not sinful The Hothee religions can't all be Use Baha'i Faith Information Line 582-20- 26 I 943-005- 9 11 DR 7:30 WED jfirzt Prtcsbpttrian at "C" Street 10 (5000 S) WED 7:30 PM AM Church Area CottonwoodHolladay 1580 East Vine Street (6100 South) 19 Rev David Crockett 278-46- 930 Bible Study 10:45 Morning Worship Potheringbarn Minister This week's message "WAKE UP AND LIVE" Milts Fotheringbarn Minister Music by: Cynthia Venn Preid 8 7136 S 1700 East SIC Utah 84121 Awakening the Spirit of Love within humanity LN E SPRING Worship Services 8:45 and 1100 AM Sunday School 9:45 AM 4 Bible Study Thum 1000 AM Wed 7:30 PM 8 pm Sunday Services 11ert C7day SINGLES MINISTRY NURSERY MOTHERS DAY OUT YOUTH MINISTRY SENIOR ADULT MINISTRY Pastor Andy Hornbaker Assoc Pastor David Brown Music Wayne Tuttle Counseling - Kenny Wiggins 2780 E 3900 So NEW CREATION CHURCH AI Il i I 277-94t- 2 "WHEN I SHOULD DIE" t I Dr Donald H Baird COMMUNITY' OF GRACE Ni' T4 WORSHIP SERVICES 8:30 & II:00 AM 11 CHURCH SCHOOL tall ages) 945 AM (ample parking at Chase E anbaltan Vet k ESTABLISHING THE ORIRCH IDV E VICTORY THRLI FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST SUNDAY WORSHIP1000 2100 South 28 East AM Presbyterian Church 0 2015 Newcastle Dates (8850 So) e :r3911r Summer Worship 9:30 am- - 4R114iNor PASTOR: 3 DAVID GILBERT South Child Care Provided (between State & Main) Craig & Sharon McCune Pastors Church office — - 2150 Foothill Drive Great Harvest IFSMill Church tSt FIRST 4dr CONGREGATIONAL 1 CHURCH the Gospel is the Power of God" 2 An affiliate of Aherne Bible Church Tulsa OK Sunday Services 10:30 am & 830 pm Executive Inn 280 W 72008 Pastors James & Backy Knight Preaching Greco a Marcy through Janos Christ Fat 1 no information - 1865 "rho Church of tiro Pligritne" FOUNDED oHope "WHY AM A CONGREGATIONALIST" Rick Carlin 1010 m Worship 1030 am Sunday School cHapu Free "God's answers to Human problems through Love Aco3ptcnoe and Liberal Democratic rr - 41600101 Forsdveness" GUMPTION AND GUSTV Dr David A Henry T "GUTS Worship Services: 10:30 am 11:00 - 1230 pm Sunday 9:00 1624 So 1000 West Wasatchpreibytoon 1700 t AST 4 Worship Services 8:30 am & 11:00 am Church School (AU Ages) 9:30 am 41IlitEiii: 1'1 8 1881 E Vine St (6100 So e Von Wink vtl S 4:3 Roc Robed R Powell Moretti!) donde 1101 am m a!inday 9rhool "' ret'AIL CHF0SI UNITED METHODIST 237b E MO So "BE THE BEST OF WHATEVER YOU ARE" Roo Hodges worship Sooloot 1010 a 11 am Chad owe provided Churoh Eohool 9 30 flnn Hodues Minintnts: Khnf HILLTOP UNITED METHODIST iivab E RAW° So b?1677 "ARE YOU RICH AND POOR" Rov Jire Covroa iionthip Services a 30 I 1100am Sunday Schc019300P1 Sumin309 Promthnot W Pwitv e ' 1!) 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Ttwodry 740 pm 'Mar Study Viedumodny 1:00 pm ttellowyldp of Owlet Mu Adult Singles Pridny 700 pm CY mutfire - I am am pm r — (Vout Homey tur ll Sundoty Semler REV NOEL RAVAN SENIOR PASTOR ia(m) Si) 700 11101f 26m 217p t o s 4 1 s WORD ALIVE " t FELLOWSHIP a S ' t I i I ' S ' w WO liard Richard of ' ' i 0 a : Pastor and Mrs' 1r --0 AM 15ciwn But Not Out" 6:00 PM "4Th:3 XWey) Minister Jerry Lewis 4n independent Christ Centered Body ''7 '''''t' DAVID MONEY LAY SPEAKER '- - 8 8:30 8 11 Worship Church School 9:45 Evening Service 6:00 David A Henry David C Lee Horace M McMullan FIRST UNITED METHODIST 203 EL 200 E - 328-872- 6 vr'xiTzuoil' Southeast Christian Church: SOUTH-17- Pastor Steve MUllin Weekly Care Groups 9 Hope Counseling Services Professional Christian Counseling "Don't gOve up rftere's stilt hope" ' 2662001 FULL GOSPEL I CHURCHFS Men and women are spiritually equal We must jndeoendentiv seek truth PM Presbyterian: '4it' of salt Lake EFf SERVICE Mike Unity UM Haven't you always believed: AM 7 Cottonwood (1(:"f-”d I SCHOCH SUN UNITED METHODIST Are you seeking truth? WED 9 To argue for a more clear separation of church and state pointing out the ways religion intrudes in Utahns' lives To oppose tax exemptions for religious institutions particularly nonprofit hospitals a To introduce graduation-praye- r lawsuits MI To oppose prayer in governmental meetings and to stand against an amendment to Utah's Constitution that would allow it g THIRD SO 1165 FOOTHILL 10:30 THIRD CHURCH 1306 Sunday Celebration Servioe 11:00 AM E So Temple Utah Atheists Close Shop But Refuse to Give Up Fight Continued from of the Light Worship Sorvica 10:00 171"7N 4:tika1iiDA 484-00- 99 13 Religion 10:00 7 E AM 11 CHURCH & SERVICE SCHOOL 484-022- I i A SERVICE SCHOOL SECOND SUN "THE VOICE OF GOD" Free Dream Workshop 6:00 pm at the Eck Center 1 507 E1700 So Suite A SLC "THE JOURNEY OF THE FREE SPIRIT" Rev Bill Hamilton-Holw- - SUN 13th East ECKANKAR Ee 466-997- fq FIRST CHURCH 352 Church School (all ages) 9:30 AM Worship 11:00 AM Nursery provided Ministers: Stan Smith Ntay Darnell Joanne Wesson (801) & 77VIT:7 WIa11 CHURCH 8th So 8 Pt 1 DON'T KNOW WHAT ANYTHING IS FOR" Service: 11:00 am 3090 East 3300 South Ste 5 Salt Lake City Utah 84109 Vb6491 SW81'01760 So MO E SUNDAY SERVICESIO am Robbins - Minister Roy FIRST BAPTIST 142 l'4 4 at4 NO SERMON "SO WHAT?" Rev Bonnie Apps Celebration Service: 11:00 am Meditation Service: 10:30 am 461-5024 hr CENTER: 4i Invite you to praise 1 worship with thorn at 4 Moir now location Their church le " nondenominational am? is located at 4000 W 15415 tors in Kearns Nursery Srovidad The Richards are graduates of Shoma"1d bible Training Center in Tulsa OK Service times are: Sun 10:30 Sun 6130 pan Midweek is Wad 730 For mom information at 3 piatose or S Gan' tt" pm's tented thrtms r I |
