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Show UTAH CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. V if U ii i ' 1j i ( ' K' fla 4 .H 'E " f'ui bVtri u ii J . i' v I H i tut K' . L i oroari Continent there th spit. situated are haired tur- ate, uf leum ing. And yet, pome of its most enthusiastic followers aie nuni? ters, lawyers, physicians, teachers, and many who have graduated from other schools. Who can tell what "t'r.dc-- have ben wrought through this agency in thousand of homes, during the pan eight yearn. To how many has corne this hallowed ti utli. No matter Low sordid or mean our task, are, we may as Mrs. Browning lias said. Kftep our souts singing at some we work apart. Every time read a good book, or take in a noble thought, we qr ow. Where before we were imprisoned in a narrow valley, a broad land.swq e opens to our view, and. we adds glimpses beyond, of grand moun lam heights to be M.drd. Liue Ve can live a life one has said, of tlm mind, that soars as the bird soars aboc the ground, where else we should crouch and grovel. Our nature is a diamond given to us in its rough state, and should wh not try to return it to God, implored and polished to its best extent In our C. L. S. C. the religions element. is made a prominent factor, and this is well. Intellect and a taste for study, luck their deepest inspiration, unless built upon a foundation that cannot be undermined, faith in God and immor Vie study the word and tality. works of God.'' Another feature of the Chautauqua circle is, tint it is becoming a great Soeiat power. It calls people together regular! and informally, They are constantly thinking and experiencing the pleasure of interchange, of ideas and knowledge, thus social life assumes a higher and loftier plane. Our favorite poet has said that art is long and time is Heeling;'' but here we learn that every earnest man and woman may have within bis or her life, time at least to measure the length or bieadth of the treasures art may hold. A beautiful legend has come from the shores of On a time, the classic Greece: lesser gods of Olympus fell among men who soiled their garments and dimmed their beauty, until at last, Zeus sent down among them a great power, which took hold of the fallen deities, earned them back to Olympus, and chained them to the throne of the Some one lias said, great king. a prophecy which is this legend our school is to fuliil. That knowledge, as found in art, science, music and leligion Ins long been debased by selfishness and the passions of men, but tins great Chautauqua movement is to lift it up and bring it nearer the divine throne. Sur-l- y we, who have enlisted in this cause, seme of us perhaps with a self sacrifice that would glorify rim martyrs of old, are parch nable, if we allow oui in thrill for looking up, with pri.b and we behold our banner tlung proudly .n the breeze. and emblaz-OBe- d upon it in B teia uf gold are 'I'andim K nmuthese word; lus arbor. The sapling has at hat U - -- s v,,;!i joy. on1 As we we ara and tlnne, wan Hr r iji'w ie.n. nri! of (Hscriptrims v.t- - have lead of Greece and Home, Ever J rusaleiu and Switzerland. and a:i m ji- - Do.iih to mr ears woi!o uf thrilling eloquence, and we see thousands hurrying to and f;vi.witli Htcu a look of determined earnest m,',, wi are anxious to inMany are terpret it, meaning. with ua their wending eager , to a white pillared hall, in tall .shade trees, W ould you know tire inline of this p, ce ; 0a mystical wold explains !n-i- e w e!ai-"',t-r-- B is it a!!, chant wquafliv birth-plar-s- d i'iir C. L S. C., arid tire temple is the dear old Hull (if the drove Eight yea) .a since, a large assembly lie (, was addressed by a noble man. who eloquently unfolded to them the plan of an organization, vv hose wati'hw old should be edu-ea- fi m; education not alone for those who might have the privilege of winning laurels in college halls, but for tho'c who stood outside the gates of oppoi tiinity. The multitude heart, uf the gu-a- t throbbed in resume to this grand reaching out of the old and young, the rich and po r, the busy and neglected, offering Christian cul h shoal I Lighten and their live, and widen their ontlook upon the world. An an I enthusiastic response cime !rom In, ii,teiieis. Seven Lundr-- d took up the work at once, and thus began the history of the C. E, S. C.' Aug. loth TS78. The then sun, just rising, Chautauqua t( day bhms high in the heavens, uni its beneficent light spreads u bm - among the haunts of chdiwd men. It, lays have even the lrnpenetrabil-i- v t he City of SuinK white-pillari- -l in-ter- ini-m-H- rify cri -- evi-iy- pii-nv- d gnoitty ciini'.u.y i, oi r bn a I, t.fly tho..- - tii-- nuw wo daini, tn puipi- - riu u"ii a ronl Mi every lain' to siuuad it fame." Tt.i.-.V T ie- - 1 Chun! Tim t i i dVo, a, it is is pm diir, broad, and rep, , curing all that is Utah in li'iiuii ami's and dejjght-PmUii .a, hip. ennobling inset haei-ni. and mg in worship. I; p ,s n :ni,'inri. and is founded re; u i d , d ) -- j lo-aii- s - be-mm- a lrn the uf I ouotial and m: jii tt y ha pel In Brigham Cstv meeting with vv IsLh the Convention about SoiMu. is alwit s supplemented. The Presbyterian in Etali 11m ham rottras betwn tin- Brig- Out i f to day and that - Mi eight years ago, when the h Gill jsplc first located thert, isouM afford strurgenc.'Uiamenjciit for all in Utah who are engage I in similar work. Eight years ago, !u ealymnr Mormon in th tow n was obliged to sell his propeuy and nun e a a ay. i!1 . ( an kd r:k u till hugest force i ,)o In-uri- y -- and Is h-- u in it -f i i i mini-- ; 'rim will be htevuge and n oraanijd c huu h s. i iW in the four in whL i k led can wh: oil iiHE eii.-- ; the hhh.i lu.c, it make an a'.uj- t s I g, great was rite anro a he was subjected by the priest ho jd. And nothing was left undone bj to diii e Mr Gill-gthe prie'-tiioopie out of the town because he ua guilty of the offense of being an so The Collegium lntitn''. h Bioiv'sur d, F. bl 'sj ii i. lun I f li Gjg, -- i opiMi'na u y, to its hiriui . Tin--- t ns dbi.r uf i i s d , ! fust American and a Christum. Hi, property was repeatedly injured and his house Honed. I 'or several 2o;f wt-ek- ii at Jb t i n,uc i;j si; ,n k-ye- this tinm. t Nu in ! s ! 1 exjt'C's to begin r G - f muriuMon- el f , i n- iaiC j trCniri f tin.C'd-.now llurigerloid would sell him no mi plms ! any at buil.iing Spriitgvilie next inn; ; kind. But the people a: length lie lack? only about ?H'0 f l!:n g disco veied that they had been enough nionev in hand to bud i b giosHy deceived by the priesthood, mission and that Mr. Gillespie was a gaud man worthy of their confidence. Ihi' third anii'ui inviting of thv ui.t nati-u;I idea with lU.k', lfi"ivsnry the kindness Treating people ewLineiiccd on Wi!iiolay An gnu 4th. and civility, he soon won many to ami closed the W follow ir.g, his side. Then with the open Bible is said to Lot luen a mosteening iuterc-tiny This idon was orgaidved ot jn his Land, fiom the firt he has i In M.nnra Falls, two yeais ago, and kindly but most faithful!- pointed Paik, it second meeting on tin1 same ground, it g out the enors, set forth the is composed wholly of returned misrionatics Bible truth until the people of the dtfiemtl denominations, who come tohave become interested in hearing gether to eulthate soda! relations and tj his discussion of the ery subjects advance Ly discussion and otherwise tin 1 - , . 4 i , p,v n. it. utl m. H Mi . L i. ii. i huis h il.iisv-i.- v If IIUTI, e fold Hgiri'to.uT i.n-- as We judge he tluur trn uur, tin gleall of 1 i'te-- e edin-.-iSa- y celivtl't Mi-'- ii ju'i, ov. r .lie) Ne;dy J.hd each; mi'-io- il' ill and bOHiUiCO iriof H and the .idl b: uu! I i v't rai.-- d lii't .r an avei.ixo year a jubih e l md of ... si m t. ,i i ifs.vii. and a half ( . . g. Wv-lo- ce1 N. corres-pondin- A LT.TiA OITM-.- lr. llasrings lioid leli- sen lee' tut Boston Cun.mou. work to which yeais ago they ihwoted girms - uii-'lbthey are thinking about, and the great an act onitt (f i he (as-- and their liven. The u ,f the Unii'n just priesthood are talking about in the closed embraced bixty-twit c.ins o'.ei cos a? follow.', .vnh out of the nem ly TabernaeK In this way, in con- five hundred names they have registered on feuine iuteiMsriiig laets. It makvs nection with the school he estab their lists. In the number present there one llarne w if !i indignant wiath to ni h vt, f,n f) ,, p) t i "JUIO illv. f t I iSii Jut lished, he has wi ought a social, civil t I think the'' in H iiuiigs can he any-wln1 5 Reformed Congregationai, and religious revolution in Brig-La- m Preahytei'an, in ih- - United Stale. Bead 1 Dutch ami United Brethren. f the.-City. So that now- in the Gwuefroni Japan, IS from China. 3 from what Ms. ll.istit very tow-- where eight years ago, Burmali, 5 from Siam, 12 from India, o from it to your neighbors to lead. For under the lead of the priesthood, Africa, 3 from South America, 1 from tiie offense of preaching the Gospel the people were ready to drive from 2 from2 New Hebrides, 1 from3 Greep", i on Boston Common, on May IT. Italy, from Bulgaria, and from the every Christian American away North Amei ican Indians, IPSA, he wa placed in the dock in this with stones and brick-bats- ; The mornings during the week were dewith twent -- three common drunkvery town when some sixty voted to diseusbious, and the afternoons ai.d ard'. and lined $10. while the teachers and ministers arrived on evenings to special addresses on a wide drtink.ii du vote lined $1 each. Berange of topics connected with mi rionaiy Tuesday August 24th, they were wink in Uneign lands. The following wre ing told by the judge that it was met at the depot by the band end among the topics discussed: Music in Mis- ea'V io grt a peir.iii to pleach, lie escorted up into, the city u here the Bionary A ork, Education and plied f u ti. penult at once, but Work; Need of a idn Outlook and a Goiul aj Morhomes of the pleasant leading Geneialshin in the Conduct of Mission; Mis- it has never been granted and the mon families were thrown open to sionary Courtesy and Organic con. m it tee, whose chairman is a receive them. During the weeks Union of Chin eh Families, ami Federal Union rimsseiler, v ted to grant no pet mi t sojourn there, there was nothing Among .Societies Laboringiutho Same Field; for this puip",se. The next SunMedical VI (irk as Contributing to Evangelism ; lacking of kindness and v day lie lead three chapters from DeThe Type of Christian Experience on the part of the people. Mission Fields; Tiie Place the Bridie to an orderly assembly veloped in But the interested culminated at of Sunday Foreign Schools in Modern Missionary cn the Com moil, but delivered no the evening meetings which were Mark; prut, M hat can be Done to Inco-assermon, lor which offense he was nil held in the Court House. For Missionary Zeal and Intelligence in the again sumimumd to court and lined live successive evenings, five min- Home Churches? The Union had a grand He appealed to the Superior lovefeast on morning, $Aj. isters preached on special Bible and d with a farewell Sunday where n trial the jury was in meeting, which review that under The a Union number brought quite topics participated. directed to bring in a verdict of prominent Mormon errors and set arming oilier tilings formeily acted upon, and gui'sty. The e tse was then taken strongly condemning the forth the opposite Bible truth. passed resolutions to the Supreme Court, and March opium trade us cairlod on by the Eugli-- h The interest increased every evening to pay in China; recommended the 20, InnO, he wa-- seni-nee- d until the last three evenings the union of institutions of learning in foreign fl line an I to stand committed court house, which will seat about binds; rhe union of the saniedinomii'ational un.il paid. Mr. Hastings brings 300 must have had nearly HOC families in evangelical woik in any giv n our in addition the stinging facts, locality; and endorsing the action of the packed into it, while half ns many American Board in calling upon the Chriv that during sixty-thrdays in JhfcC) more v'ere obliged to go away. tian wot rid to observe Sunday, Nov ember Tilt, tlm city gov t ament of B istoii The interest pervaded the whole as a day of special prayer for foreign 2,0?, t permits to sell liquor, T. D. for a Rev, J. I)., years Giacey, town, and nothing else was talked and only two t preach he Gospel, in India, was the original r of ti L of but what was said by the and rim' in f mr vears only nine Mriuonary Union, and from the boginhing the courthouse. ( ot.vicied preachers at teen out Tl muiM-ilei- s lias lieeu its President. Of course, the priesthood were The above, from an exchange, in- of s riling liquor illegal' were sento counsel balance the dicates huw uneasy and, rapidly the wot Id's tence! to punishment, while for influence uf the Christian woiL, et angelizinq forces are conrioq to preaching the Gospel uf Christ their agents tame in and read a see eye to eye, as was foietold u knout a peimit conviction is cera for in discussion public challenge in the Scriptures. Methodism 'a vs tain. sentence inev itable, and pun" Tlie letter of Air. the Tabernacle. This challenge to all the toilers in God's vinev ui d, ishment ho . was accepted I rcvidnl the church in the and cam y, Uanimrs m dated in language t'f John authorities uf the town would if thv heart be ns my henir, Mi e cnJ-3 a Inllows: e!ect a represen'ativo naan to con- me th Iran u. ISh'- B.i'fon lines In the v duct the dD'u.Mvhm, and provided n.o.i'ti-i- ' i.a pn The fullowing Nrihri'i v, lii.g th Gwspi-i Bible to iilnly only one side uf the discst-Mothe an leading tlie St. Louis Christian Adcnii should be heard the same evening, in till connection, will be im.-- t tomrnon be( ams j crov.d'. u.i iliei eby getting rid of a meie war mu to obtain th ride ha-- . y ilit it as ale they ing raiding, But the discussion on of words. r'a'sohubk terms was deriim-m.u h to seau-1- ' use convert m Chin-of Ihe priest ho- d. as it does to cat by tin tigf-Ory a ship load .,f But the people of Brigham City I'himtmen back to their Asia:;.1 have had such a fute of fieedom, home. that the futmer priestly p, tunny Of 'him'. popiu .1 u n of vokh.jm'. y.'di them arc ia Chri-ila- u oai! never be exercised ove mui'iiiiuh"' ; f Iia'iO'! again. All uf which is due to the 2rM!(M',ov at), nit Im Vo ; of Japan ' ,0),o'o influence of tne Bible, in the hand?, oViabci.t i j,C(V) ; uf Sian.' s.Kyod, Tk) ; of 2n,( mjio , loyoo ; uf IVr'iriri of one faithful man. But the T.y lurkcys 0,0 in, hunt! ; uf Afi ih.iVioVOn, )'. h.u m word of the Lord enlurefh Vuioricaa rn"in ficb.' r.iU '.'oiiko TJ- T 11- - . s ees-io- o, s O O if m1 J IVMI XC? J i ! tv ( 1 s j -re . 1 al-- e, o, n Oei-man- ho'-pitalit- v e mis-ionar- y C-nr- clo.-e- ee mri-non- -- YV--H- - 1 ; n j The Presbyteiy of i tali, has laid ra M;ng-,- . fiom many inGtv-fin- g differ in in at town to year, year interto none Utah, but ompuiein est with the meeting uhbdi adjourned in Brigham City, Augm-- t AHh. The meeting was preceded There by a Teacheis Comention. e teachers wtie present f uty-onother Christian and twenty-twworkers. The pipers read and the l discussions of the MISCELLANEOUS IlF.Ws. : anl..a Ctri with topics presented, offered vriiu in a of total have 2. for the gouii Mr. Gillespie lus the plans all a valuable preparation Gobi .ue ririi.-' wlioh1 ml'.-io- n school and Christian wink of the drawn, and expects in a Hw weeks aThHcnHof OhrMian chureh- -. coming year, in connection with to begin the erection of a neat j Now let us gl.ui.fp ar ci'J'par Uio espi-chill- sill-si- o " d , j ; for-ever- .- . many-practica- h .,. . 5 u: tiiK'b with u".d r, by the bowed down with the I ile dialling that Jbr whose ions j'ov r.v5 lets, !J.Uth' at 1.j-- j average j per (i.i'i LI ! eti.T-- s fur Uiotestaiit e'i, uvei eg Iniiie. wo Juiudied Ltborert. ('hii'tia:i' at in the south rveii' l.Pt ! soul lo tin London I il g,uh-uin- i i ilium g i , Villi . ti-u- the riiiMiviTiiTTridiifdiPi riul l.n Ad .tried t I ai a t. it u mu. hi i.ii exceed $ ee Mini !u.. - a- - ia'u i. U the - l'ue Uuie Rev. 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