Show CHURCH AND GREED i I I I Value of Good Music in the Sunday Sun-day Schools I I I THE ARMENIAN CATHOLICS The Use of the Bible The Husk of Fruit Various Relteious cervices t lie Held Today Divine services will b held in the various places of worship today as follows CIUlICH OF JlUS CItS 01 LARDAY Lalw of Zion Stke SAINTSalt Angt Cnon president Joseph E rlylor and Cnanes w r euros counlors Mcetg this afternoon at 2 oclock aftenlon ococ ST MAitKs CATIIKDHAI Holy communion at 71 I I Sunday school at 945 a m Morning prayer and termon at 11 a m Evening prayer at 730 nm Prayers taU through the week at SI5 am 4 FIKST PBCSUVTEKIAS Public worship at 11 am and preaching by th pastor Rev K G McNiece Sabbath school at 12B Young peoples society of Christian endeavor at 030 Seats free at all these services ST PAUoS CIUIEIllorlng prayer and sermon ser-mon at 1 n Sunday bchool at 12 Im Jenlng pmycr all bcron at 73pm FlIlST CONGHElATIOXAt ClIUKCIl The Rev J Brainanl Thrall pastor Public worship with sermon by the pastor at 1 am Sunday school at 1215 Young peoples meeting at Cpm C-pm Seats free and puolie cordially invited METHODIST CHURCH 11 Eat Third South street Preaching at 11 am and 730 pm by tbe pastor Rev l L Libby Sunday school at ll5 pm Young peoples meeting at 030 pm A cordial invitation to all PIIIUTP8 COSOnEOATIONAI ClltJUCII Cor ncr uf Seventh East and Fifth South streets Divine services at II am and 7 pm Conducted and preaching by William Gi Mis M A Sunday school afier I the morning service Young peoples society of Christian endeavor Friday evening at 7TO All cordially invited to all the services C H Woodward deacon The Waldensians have just celebrated in a truly lilting and memorable manner the second centennial of the glorious return of 1GS9 when after untold sufferings and banishment from the historic valfeys as one of the results of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes they with sword in hand and led by their warlike pastors Tanavel and Arnaud forced their way back to their ancestral hOles Religious newspapers are rapidly multiplying multi-plying both in number and extent of circulation circu-lation Religious books are issuing from the press in unexampled quantities Religious Re-ligious essays never before tilled so large a space in periodicals Boston Advertiser The Baptist missions in the Shantung Province have in the district of Tsing chen Fo China fiftylive churches all self supporting ministered to by five native pastors maintaining themselves and not diMWiiifr any of their support from the society Rev Dr L man Abbott touches a tender spot when he proffers the following advice Ube your Bible I think there are some persons who imagine that there is a sacred quality in a family Bible lyiner l on the center cen-ter table and who have the same sort of regard for the book that lies there that some other people have for the value of a horseshoe nailed over the door and the one is sgojd as the other The Bible that is unopened is at bebt of value onl as arc sJccUul pro1eMion that ou arc not ex acth an inJdcl The lble that is to la holi 01 you is a Bi le that ou ma la hold upon The Armenian Catholic church is the latest lat-est coiner among ivigious bodies t this country and muss was celebrated by an American priest in Worcester Mass last Sunday for the second time in this country There is quite a colony of Armenians in Worcester and the Armenian service will be celebrated regularly there by Father Hovsep baragijn The Armenan Catholics schismatic body do not excepting one acknowledge ac-knowledge the papacy and are as independent independ-ent as the Gveek Catholics though not as numerous fie priests do not rani high ecclesiastically and the bishops assume more of the work in other Catholic systems delegated to priests Utica Hrraltl There are evident sigus already that the exposition in 1 h1 2 is to be the grandest of its kind that has ever yet been held A vast collection of the products of nature science art ant manufacture will be gathered gath-ered there from all parts of the globe I the children of light in this age of enlightenment en-lightenment and wonderful energy have any of the wisdom which the children of this world will display at the worlds fair Were also ought to be made the grandest demonstration of the l worldwide i work of I missions that has yet been attempted Such a demonstration we do not doubt would make a showing of the extent and power of Christian missionary enterprise which would astonish the ordinary observer ob-server Sjifrft of Mitsiimt Mffic Axn THI SUXIIAV SCHOOLS In Sunday schools especially in the musical musi-cal relations much reform is needed Usually some blundering tyro who wants to practice is put at the organ the tunes are played without that subtle attention t true rhythm which a trained musician can alone give Thoyoung man or woman who volunteers to play bungles along This piece 0 that piece they cannot perform at sight they will learn them for next Sunday Sun-day and so a few illyplayed hymns are sung over and over until the children become be-come disgusted with the monotony and lapse into complete indifference during the musical exercises The children those who arc musical are keenly alive to all the fault just as much so as growu pcoplejor the finer musical susceptibilities aiv innate and not acquired The power t express those susceptibilities may he taught but the musical taste itself cannot be imparted hence the importance of giving the very best music to children When I say best I io not mean the involved and the mystical but I mean music that is throbbing with properlyproportioned pulsation clear in harmony graceful in melody I ami cxactlv I suited to the words Kev Dr J H luOvlcs in the Church Tin for Scjitcm bel TIM IIIJSK or TUITH t Paul with all his just discrimination ant rue regard for the relative value of the ugliest thing has never undervalued the lesser aims of life He never sneers at science or nhilosophy or theological soiling on the other hand he extols them al while malting them tributary to affairs of the highest moment I Paul were alive io v we do not believe that he would be roublcd by bathybius or kept awake night by his fears of what piotoplasm would lead to I he were ale now we Clieve he would say to the evolutionist Go on with your investigations Prove if you can that my ancestor was an ape InC his ancestor a little spot of gluelike colorless matter However you may exalt our work mine IK a more important one for I must preach Christ and him cruci led as the only salvation of a lost race Use your microscope Mr Huxley he might say pry into the secrets of the beginning be-ginning of all life if you will but while I > eiievo that man has an immortal soul I beleve hall claim that it is of moro importance hol that soul is liually to be saved than how this body first came to be Let the geologist search the world over for the tory written upon the primeval rouks he might have continued but while they do lot find written upon them any other name by which men may be saved I shall make it my frt and most important concern to rust in that name which is above every ame In this spirit of high appreciation of the relative importance of truth we be lieye the apostle lived and wrote and in his particular his whole life is an example i or the modern Christian Since i all truths truth-s important we are too often taken with the sophistry that all truth at all times is of equal relative importance to the individ 1 al and the failure to appreciate this dis Inction has caused the shipwreck of many a soul Every mat must make choice even of the truth which he will investigate and horoughly make his own since human life is too short and human faculties too united t embrace it all but he is a fool who starves while investigating the truth bout husks and shells and never finds what the contents of the shell and husk are good for There are many important and curious things t be learned about the shell I of a nut but after all the kernel is of in rv t o comparably more importance to the hungry man There will be time enough for him t investigate the properties and structure of the shell when he has investigated the lifeciving properties of the kernel What shall we say of him who spends all his life upon the outer wrappings of truth and gives not a day to the truth of truths that Jesus Christ cane into the word to save sinners Golden Ilule |