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Show Tht harret f truly r? gnaf, IM the VOL. 1 albert rr an feicT SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL, 1. attend religious service?, and to lead a religious life; they met every night to confer about their woik, and to study their Bible, especially angelical Christianity the Greek Testament. Their methoand General ds? and aims resemble those of Religious Societies'5 begun by J)r. Horneck, in London fifty years SO A and the departing sun gilding the than John TV e&lev Urn self in after years. But the fact yet remains CSu'istiau Advocak. that this Devoted to after a better life, sometimes groping in the daik, it is true, yet Education, News in Utah. 1881. whole with a glory noble band worn Rwin'pg ithq mvr,YT1p! nv eg which oven rsar a nwilPf faintly picture, and it is no wonder that such a traveler should say, with bated breath, as many a always seeking, and ever looking one has; famous In all my wanto the word of God for light, and historic lands. I to the Spirit of God for powei. derings through sever before. ha.e looked a scene as the years swept on. the j And, upon Bishop Wiley, D. D. in varied the, superior and tmul giandeur and power came, The central figure in this little j lghfc C. 1L Fowler,' D. . this.5 to ail England was stirred and quickbeauty T. C. liiff-E- group of young men, or the such with ened revival a as Nearly every visitor is greatly had not Smith. Curator of the Holy Club, as the G- E. been witnessed since apostolic time. surprised at the merits of the city wits nicknamed lym, was John Jayne, itself. T. W. Lincoln. Instead of an unsightly It must not be forgotten that For fifteen years of his Wesley. A. W. Adkinson. village, where rude adobe dwellings etrly life he was associated with this revival began in a literary inP, A. H. Franklin mostly prevail, he finds an attractOxford; first as a student in Chiist stitution, and among literary men. J. D- Gillilan. ive, bustling city ot 25,000 inM, Nelson. Church, and after graduating there, These men were diligent students 1. habitants, embowered amid a green i Vf as a fellow in Lincoln College. He JJL VJJtdJL F, Brock. 'OlflVO) forest of shade and fruit trees of G. M, Jeffrey. was elected to his fellowship when most of all, they prized the wisdom C . Copeland . every vaxiety, a city of beautiful years old. lie that is from above.55 As Methodonly twenty-thre- e 1 ninn Irtl Wf1 n ev J 2 was a slender young man, short of ists, we should be unmindful of residences of modern architecture, The Holy Club of Oxford. stature, with pale face and long our origin were we to fail rightly with, fine business blocks of brick BY KEY J, il. FPEEUAV, D. D. hair. With health by no means to appreciate the value of education, and iron, three stories high, conIn this centennial year of the robust, bm had an iron vrup on or the important of revivals of taining Mules that would do credit history of our church, it may be unflinching courage, and a deter- religion in our schools of learning. to any metropolitan city, wan. a dis- well to note the beginning of that mination to make the best of his The history of the Methodist Episin me xiuiiu aiiaUg- wonderful levivai which swept time. Thus, when entering upon copal Church shows that the splat ...1 .. : j ....i itk5 t J (ijutbiv,.1XiO OtlU M ujuu iilivA !!...). tlnougii England, crossed tne the dunes ot his teliowsnip, ne said of sound learning has Leen foswill not find exposed in any of Atlantic, and, after the lapse of Leisure and I have taken leave tered among us, until we have now the great cities. years, resulted in tire organization of one another.'5 But, better still, connected with our Chu The traveler, too, i su. prised to of the Methodist Episcopal Church. when he found himself separated one hundred and lif'y aJioK ot ..r- all the modem city Theie k a special propriety in from some of his frivolous friends various grades. In oil these schools above the valley, and f vo m (lV.ni( nK st!Vt oaiF) pubic doing this in a Sunday. school peri- of Christ church, lie determined the religions ' lnent huuMy 1 Move into th Gw, eharic U. :m, lights and the m- - of iW to change the course of his religious prevail'', and odical designrd of pap.' fuel snow. One nf b g region TJp is al0 blir. ,ll0He ml. resolved to have no qaent occurrence. that the die life, and jyCujylc, y uuB lire refreshing things m toe m.-- j to find fine such Christian jpriva r ounders of Methodism were young acquaintance by i Lance, bat by original Oxford file continues to of July an d August is to look olnurh edifices, some of them costdays young r r these mountains and see dm men, and, luce the ancient Bereans, choice.' Such a man was a fid leader burn in the hoards of ing upward of '50, 000, and such tine of Club for the tire all word the with 'received genera Mgth.odiits Holy they immen't banks of snow lying school bail lings, and well equipped readiness of mind, and searched Yet not to him, but to his brother tion. within a two American in connection with Tim Methodist visitor lu Oxford fhre apparently ddilv. he Cl miles, five years Ms junior, "ne five miles the-- c rim nan churches. Ills sur-rri1- walk. hunts Thirty Oxford has great attractions for longs Um audit of originating the still gae.s with interest on Lite illut south of the city, behind a big spur j will incj eased, too. when lie the tourist b manse of the natural little band. It was while John was sive walls and stately tower of the running eat from the Wasatch dkcover. that tliere is just as of Christ church, with its beauty of its situation, its magnif- absent in Epwoith and Wroot as college lies a beautiful fresh water hoepitabk. range, and intelligent and staircase,s and his fathers curate, in 172'.J, that ga-u- hull and be icent piles of architecture, its lake, known as TriaL. Lake, about American as can be curved society richly ceding; its v; schools of learning, its Charles, then only twenty-ordo miles long and 10 mies wide. found n in lime a of this town any libraries of rarejand valuable books, years old, proposed the plan to two apartments and vast quadrangles, Here rises the Jordan river which size. IM will also find here just as Morgan, of lie sees the wide spread meadow flows north and the great name connected with of hi? fellow-studentcenter cf the through business men, as good its history. But especially has it Christ Church, and Kirkham, of stretching in the distance like a Salt Lake valley, and empties into enterprising a abiv edited newspapers, hotels, marked attraction for the Method- Merton ;so that when John returned carpet of green velvet, and reaching Grat Salt Lake, which lies north- - as competent professors, as line ist traveler. If i? the Antioch of to Oxford in November of that to the river; and the famous troef n f f lu p ra xr pH cf a r f f rv if lawyXxb aliupjik oj.uun.pa's scholarly Methodism, for here the godly band year, lie found the three already Broad Walk5 inviting him to a about 12 miles. Salt Lake valley and talented ministers as he can of young men who studied the engaged in their godly work. lie ramble under the friendly shade is one of the richest in America. find in other any city of this size. word of God, and sought to regulate immediately joined them, and of its stately trees. He listens to Indeed the writer knows of but one The traveler will be still further their lives by its teachings, were naturally gravitated to Ms place as the chimes of the college bells, and other place in America where more surprised to discover that few cities hears the celebrated Great Tom55 wheat can be raised to first called Methodists. As the wits leader. acre than in America can hold as the great and This leadership he retained until strike the hours. As he looks and in this name f Antioch gave the valley. varied as a attractions summer as a term of con- - the left Oxford foi Georgia in 173-5- . listens he is thrown back to the Christian,55 North of the city, another bold resort for tourists, and as a time when the youthful Wesleys general T tempt, so the wits of Oxford con- - After this their organization , Opui 1 uiio ucou UGia ituv ITVI AOCHIVAI f . A I 3 , il, tv. a Q3 i lot f invalids, iaji tO Hally dwindlsu, Due its lujuueiice ctoAU vfcJLACAG ui tuts VAAUrtl ivieinoatlio titles 'MwthOuiSt, toward the lake. The City Lake City. In this latter respect, ridicule the methodic manner in remained, for its members, scattered ists trod these hills and paced lies at the foot of the southern slope it far Denver for its surpasses A walks. these ten minutes walk of this as they were, carried the sacred of altitude is a spur, gorge through a thousand feet nearly fixe wilL. them, though seme of to the north of Christs Chuich north-eas- t to Jess, that of Denver, from which, extending being 5,200 ft. them in after years lost all interest brings him to the narrow Turl south-wes- t, rises City Creek which and its, climate is far more mild and in the cause. Among those who Street, where on the corner of the city with its pure equable than that of i Jenver. Withafterward became noted we may Brazenoee Lane, he nd& Lincoln supplies mountain water, which ripples by in three hours time, one may have mention Broughton, Herrey, Clay- College, and Ms interest is immedi- the side of so of the streets. here almost many latitude any a4 temHere is the Now let the ton, Gambold, and Ingham. One of ately heightened. traveler, experienced the last to join, was the most won- chapel, small, yet beautiful, rich in who has made the circuit of the perature he desires during the summer months, for he may reach derf ta preacher of them all, George rare, old stained-glas- s world and become familiar with the snow of both ranges of mounwindows, and here (he pnlpir it? mr.sr famous scenes of viled, and what were the practices j Whitefield. His zeal never fiaggeu, beauty tains by a narrow-gaug- e railroad. 'Ge precious influence of his where the young tutor, whose name stand on the bench "north of the which raised this storm of reproach? j mi liaa SiliCd b6C0Iu6 famOuS jOIiet? tiiuuu citv about a thousand feet above -- JLL vtii but Jaw us The General Cmuerence of the Meth to mnst We with the last. him and preached. You cross the quad- it, some evening in the Ve cannot ascertain that at any oJist Episcopal Church meets in Philaopening one time during the six years of not fail to allude, in passing, to rangle, small compaied to wLat summer, as the sun is sinking delphia Pa. May 1 . It will be composed of oer four hundred ministerial and lay their history in Oxford they num the help which the baud received you can see at Christs Churchy and he. inti lim mountains west of the delegates, almost all parts representing 1 from ol and Af advice niAi'l counsel the Lpr J fho arid tne courteous janitor !?adv you u1 Lake, casting a silver sheen over its vx kuw b Vi u wuu utT4Ug evo nn ff yi. ucacuj uvci hwaiAiy j.id ci 1.1111. vy its body. ximencana. vmiernble of the Weslevs. a fathei fiie'ht nf Englishmen, stairs a turns kgv beautiful waters, gilding with Africans, Germans. Chinese, llindoosj very often a half a score or even godly you are in Wesleys room,' as it matchless glory the less would represent them all. They and of their Italians, swedes, Norwegians, See The General Conference meets once mother. is called. be still it must difChanged were fellows and students of peaks of the Wasatch, imparting in four years and remains in session In their meetings for study in a ppearancesince he left it in 1 735, to the rich, home dotted about thirty days. The growth of ferent colleges connected with the valley .American was J.hthoixsmis remarkable, as God for size form and 4V and in same the preparing prayer, Hia Without iru yet negcf IJli'J great. University. J UAi 441 it ri the following table of statistics indicates. slummen to a awaken these feet is fifteen It about young square, those wondrous and varied hues of A hundred years ago the Methodists lecting their scholastic duties, they a to arouse and well Here light and shade supposed hitherto in the United States numbered less than and Church, a in bering two hours lighted, pleasant. day private spent 1 5, 040 . The Method ist Episcopal Chu rcli prayer; they visited the poor, the skeptical and dep raved nation. the Holy Club often met, and tube exclusively confined to the Ica- - had, in 1787, two bishops, three conferTfow imny Un t the traveler take ence 1112 preachers end 12,921 members. uu siuk, and the prisoners; they gave True, some of these doctrines and talked and prayed. The different Methodise have gone up Li in at a single gl.va freelv of what little they had to some of their practices were not of this match-- l Churches have 21,680 travelingEpiscopal prpach- V room ami f i 1 r.( in com in, mo lof Ick. mountains, t; help' the needy ; they received the a character which ivo can no C0iu iTvtu uiu vubuoitj, ''i7hiic fficmlws. rGi-hkall of kinds error-rotetencMnoios the diminutive, t river, (he in th ? United States have 23,839 v.tlh y, filver-wledijbuuu & Kuppei once a w Colv they mend- cf their traveling ' to exiles'-no vrir more Tim one the convinced was i m to induce ; cifv ungodly it o.'i-jiving at his feet. rmnkk-fsought and ? fully adjoining! mui.bf w - - TI- -- 1 U..U.V4. - 1 1 L. . - im-lY- ! j fI'o-,vio- c t j " e s, grad-Xtxrio- u 5 - - cedar-carvlng.an- --- d -- itiT-1- 1 mr clear-heade- d, snow-cappe- TnArs-nfiXjLi 4 - t. AfcO d-- : s i . ir. f uvu.-av- s e ; n - d E ei |