Show CHURCH CHIMES Religions News from Many Sources THE STANDARD OF MORALITY Echoes from LondonThe Nature of God The Gentle CUrist Religious Reli-gious Services Notes Public worship will be conducted in the various churches today as follows CHUBCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTEEDAS SAINTsSalt Lake Stake of Zion Angus M Cannon president Joseph E Tavlor and Charles W Penrose counselors Service In the Tabernacle at 2 p m Evening service in the various wards METHODIST CHURcHSermon by the pastor pas-tor Rev C L Libby at 11 a m Subject Gods care for man Temperance sermon ser-mon by Scott Anderson at S pm Sunday School at close of morning sermon FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Public worship at 11 a m and preaching by the pastor R G McNiece Sabbath School at 12 23 Young peoples meeting at 645 The public cordially cordi-ally invited to these services ST MASKS CATHEDBAL Holy Communion Commun-ion at 7 30 am Sunday school 945 a m Morning service with sermon at 11 am Evening prayer at 7 pm SWEDISH LDTHEBAN CHURCH Rev J Reini a Norwegian Lutheran minister of Denver Colo will hold divine service tonight to-night July 15th at the Swedish Lutheran Church ai 745 p m DB ISAACSON has accepted an invitation of the bishop and people of the Sixteenth Ward and will address them in the Sixteenth Six-teenth Ward Assembly Hall Sunday the 15th instant at 630 pm THE conference is to be a kind of nine days meeting of the American Board at its best The discussions as will be inferred from what has already been said are entirely freethat is in the I meetings for members onlyaIl each member may say his say but in the general consensus of opinion we are pretty sure to get down to the hard commonsense and Scriptural basis of things But there is nothing even in the freest discussion to abate enthusiasm enthusi-asm Christ for all the world and all the world for Christ seems to be the one thought which controls all minds and warms all hearts It is a greet meeting Enough has been said and done already to make it evident that the influence of this conference will reach to tho ends of the earth for good Not the least hopeful element is in the fact thus the missionaries fresh from their fields and these officials and friends of the missionary boards speak in no uncertain tones when they deal with the great truths of the word of God and portray the condition and u eds of the heathenF A N in the Advance THE STANDARD OF MORALITY That some fixed unchangeable and universal standard of morality is needed for the welfare of society is quite evident evi-dent In the world of trade we must have some certain and wellknown standard of weights and measurement without it inextricable confusion would take the place of order in the commercial commer-cial world Men who tamper with the standards of valuation or measurement are justly regarded as foe to society A merchant who would insist in buying buy-ing goods that the yard should contain fifty inches and in sailing but thirtv would be regarded either as a knave or fool Yet strange to say men WK > recognize the necessity of a fixed standard stand-ard by which to determine values in trade arejready to assume the position that in determining IT oral values they are at libety to exercise their own jlensnie What they think to be their own best interest Is to bx the standard of right conduct This is to assume the I I position that there is no DSP3 absolute law of riKhteonsnS3 and that tbe moral world is left in hopeless confusion confu-sion If this wore true nothing could be more disheartening and dreary than the out10lk of the future for human society With each individual a law unto himself aid human nature as we kr ow it to be it would require no special wisdom to predict tne ruin that would surdy follow Wh JVr a partial experiment has been maJe in I this direction the results have ben so manifest as to fill society with appre hansion and terror If the moral world has no higher law than that which is the result of mans experience the varying product of his own nature then indeed he who attempts to live amoral a-moral life is left to the guidance of ignorance and folly The lot of the boasts who accept the unchanging law of nature is more enviable than his But happily for man we have perfect standard of morality a law of truth and righteousness complete in all its parts One appeared among men who kept the law of the LorI perfectly and who stands before the world faultless and holy If then we would know what true morality is we mU3Uearn of Jesus It was his delight to do th3 will of God He reooenized but one high glorious and inflexible standard of dutythe will of the eternal Father He is at once the test and teacher of trua morality mor-ality He is the law of righteousness incarnate What is Christlike is right and what is not Chritlike is wrong The great practical question for all right doic is simply this What will please Christ He who sincerely sets such a standard before him and earnestly earn-estly and lovingly seeks to pulde himself him-self by it will certainly be led in the way of righteousness in all things It is a rule for a business life a3 will as a religious one it makes all servicethat done in the shop and field as well as that done in the sanctuary and closet of prayera holy service because it is done to please Uhrist MidConti tent Presbyterian THE NATURE OF GOD It has been said that the universe with all its beauties and grandeurs as seen in the starry heavens is not after I ill the most striking manifestation of God ncr the most convincing proof of the existence of God It is the spirit of man which is tho bast as it is the primary pri-mary manifestation of God If we would see what God is and learn the most that we can about Him we must tudy not matter but mind not nat aral science but mental science not the physical creation but the moral creation ion not the relationship of things out war i but those of the inward life of man Man is Gods son He is the image im-age of God The resemblance is close mud disclosing Till we study him we hall fail in our search after Gods nature and character There may be evidence of Gods person knowledge uid skill in the frame order and adap Cation of external nature but to find moral preference compassion sympa J t thy we must leave the hard machinery of nature and turn to man and his moral constitution and then rise to Christ and His unfolding of the eternal righteousness Pacific Ban Francisco THE GENTLE CHRIST The spirit of gentleness ruled Christ in all his conduct Bow seldom he was angry i Never was he angry with sin as such or rather with the sinner as such it was always with hypocrisy He drove the moneychangers out of the Temple with a whip he fiercely denounced false and faithless teachers he hurled anathemas at the men who devoured widows houses laid burdens upon the people grievious to be borne and closed upon them the doors of the kin dom of heaven With insincerity prejudice hardness and treachery he could be indignant but for ignorance I misfortune misery and sin he had only sorrow and mercy He moves among the people with more than angelic grace with more than womanly tenderness He speaks 0 so quietly and sweetly the greatest thoughts in the simplest words He works mighty and wondrous miracles but without noise or show With gentle touch or word he casts out devils and heals malignant diseases and then charges the recipient of his bounty not to speak of it He associates with publicans and sinners with dignity always with pride never The gentle Christ Sweet and pure patient and pitiful full of grace and truth glorious and majestic the Divine Love incarnate among sinful sin-ful men To conceive of him as boisterous bois-terous and violent is impossible that would mar the perfect beauty and grace of his character Brother let us strive to be like the gentle Christ We can have no nobler ideal Do not be anxious to fill a large place and make a great noise in the world Life maybe may-be spent far more usefully profitably anal comfortably than in seeking to satisfy sat-isfy vulgar ambition Be meek m spirit inoffensive in word gentle in deid Bear with men when you must yield to them when you can Meekness in temper gentleness in conduct these make the gentleman the noble man He who has learned how hard it is to be and do this will best appreciate the per flc ion of Him who because he was the dUinest was also the entlestmanthat ever trod this scene of passion and strifeRev George Brooks in the Quiver for July NOTES THE needs of Africa among the tribes of toe houdan l is American negroes who can better perform the work of evangelization than EuropeansDr Grattan Guinness LONDON has a Christian Police Association Asso-ciation with a membership of four thousand It is only five years since the association was started and it has prospered beyond expectation It con talus at present one hundred and fifty three branches which extend as far as Singapore Tasmania South Africa and Canada IN the pulpit treatment of texts there is such thing as homiletic vivisection in which the very life of the sacred words is killed out by artificial plans and excessive divisions We so bUsy ourselves with the skeleton of the sermon that the soul of the text escapes es-capes us and it too becomes a skcle too in our hands Christian Index THE Spirit of God ia being pouredout iu Zaluland aua converts hae been coming m from aL parts and I have baptized one hundred in my own church and assisted at the baptism of another one hundred converted by the Boers who are now writing to me to send evangelist and preaching the Gospel themselv SRet James Scott THE bishop of British Columbia has I in answer to an address presented to him by the executive committee of the Synod of the diocese praying him to reconsider bis intention to resign ac cedPti to the request and after a short visit to England for the purpose of attending at-tending the PanAnglican Synod will return to the seen of his thirty years episcopate The Living Church THE mystery that overhangs the future fu-ture life and not a little embarrass our thoughts in respect to that life arises from our entire want of observation tion and experience in regard to it That life aiust to a considerable extent remain a mystery until we die and learn what it is by experience All effort ef-fort to make it otherwise is libor lost Hence the wise way is to let the mys tery alone and not perplex ourselves with tIlle Independent WHAT more can Satan do than he has already done From the lowest foundation foun-dation to the highest pinnacle he has sought to remove every stone of the temple of truth Yet we are not in dined to lean much on the mantel pi < ce but rather to put more coals on the fire or to use the poker to provoked provoke-d greater flame In regard to the Bap tit Union it has been very plain from the beginning that its leform was hopeless hope-less and now I am far more sure of it and would not dream of returning 11 Spurgeon in the Sword and 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