Show UHORGH AMD CREED The Various Religious Services I to be Held Today THE POPULARITY OF HERESY Popular PrcjnJIee Against this Jm bCJlstl unity in Juilea Kew Version of the Prodigal Son Divine services will be held in the various places of worship today as follows Council OF JESUS Cnaisr OF LATTEKDIV SAINTS Salt Lake Stake of Zion Angus M Cannon president Joseph E Taylor and Charles W Penrose counselors Meeting this afternoon at I i oclock ST MARKS CATHEDRAI Holy communion at 730 a m Sunday school at 945 Morning service with sermon at 11 I a m Bible class at 63 p m Evening prayer and sermon at 73u u m Prayers daily at U15 am ST PAULS CHAPEL Holy communion at 11 am Sunday school at 1210 pm evening prayer and sermon at 730 pm FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH J Brain ard Thrall pastor Morning service at 11 am Evening service at 730 p m Preaching at both services by Mr Thrall Sunday school at 1215 Young peoples meeting at 030 pm Scats free at all services and strangers cordially invited FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Public worship at 11 am and preaching by the pastor Rev K O McNIece Sabbath school at 1825 Young peoples society at 63 Evening worship and preaching by the pastor at 730 Seats free at all these services The ratio of the gain in converts all the Protestant missions in China during the last decade is about one hundred and forty per cent and in Japan it is over three hundred hun-dred per cent Christendom is required only to deposit the leaven of Christianity in the mass of heathendom It will diffuse itself by its own law Nashville Christian Advocate Words and phrases that belong to the rhetoric of vulgarity and low slang sometimes some-times beard in the Christian pulpit are there most grossly out of place They fit neither the place nor the theme The preacher who indulges in them ought not to be excused but sternly condemned Independent A plan is under discussion in Episcopal church circles in India for the establishment establish-ment of a Christian university The idea is to build up an institution of the highest grade under the exclusive control of Christians in which the study of the Bible will be required of all who attend and by which degrees in divinity as well as the arts and sciences shall be given Interior In the whole history of the attempt to civilize educate and reclaim the Indians one fact stands out preeminent It is that the only way to get control of the red man to influence him really and permanently and to do anything at all in the way of genuine lasting reform is to give him a religion re-ligion to awaken and inform his conscience con-science to give proper direction to his natural na-tural religious sentiment and to make a good Christian of him This done he is Perforce a good citizen Catfiolic Review A great deal of what we Hebrews call popular prejudice against the Jew may be due to our failure to popularize Judaism Whose fault is it if not largely the Jews that its universal elements are not recognized recog-nized at their proper value and its ethical beauty simplicity and worldembracing character do not find more general acknowledgement acknowl-edgement The nations have been SOlO taskmasters it 13 true but the Jew himself him-self has often stunted ana stifled Judaism Yet the giants heart was always thereand awaiting only Gods own time for the fullest full-est unfolding Jen isfi Messenger The Freeman Journal R C says There is meaning in the name borne by the true Catholic church There would be I none in the assumption of such a title by the Protestant Episcopalian sect Their I clergy do not seem to grasp the primary meaning of Christs teaching This is forcibly illustrated by the rector of St Clements on West Third street who announces an-nounces theat he has discontinued his usual Sunday evening services and may probably prob-ably have to move his church away because be-cause of the wickedness in the neighborhood neighbor-hood Christ announced that His mission was to sinners No true ministerial servant ser-vant of His would run away from those He came to save I The CnnorrgationaUst says it is not always safe to appeal to human feelings as illustrating illus-trating the attitude of God towards men His revelation of himself shows how men ought to feel but mans revelation of himself him-self cannot be confidently appealed to to show how God feels It enforces its teachings teach-ings by this incident A home missionary was preaching to a frontier audience on the prodigal son After he had described the condition of tho son in rags among the swine and had started him on his return as he began to speak of the father coming to meet him and ordering the fatted calf to bu killed in honor of the prodigals return he noticed a cowboy looking interested and he determined deter-mined to make a personal appeal Looking directly at his hearer the preacher said My son what would you have done if you had had a son returning home in such a plight Id have shot the boy and raised the calf was the prompt reply CII1USTIANITY Kf INDIA It is the peculiar distinction of India thai it has been the theater of four great religions re-ligions Hinduism Buddhism Mohammedanism Moham-medanism and Christianity The first three have each had many centuries of opportunity op-portunity and yet Christianity has done more for the elevation of Indian society in the last fifty years than during all the long ages of their domination Neither Buddhism Budd-hism nor Mohammedanism made any seri ious impression upon caste neither was able to mitigate the wrongs which had been on women Mohammedanism rather aggravated ag-gravated them The horrors of the suttee and the murder of female infants those bitterest fruits of superstition were left unchecked until the British government made them crimes Even the native sentiment senti-ment of India is now greatly changed and I the general morality of the better classes is raised above the teachings of their re IigionDl Ellinwood in Chore at 11ul1 ard 1IJrond THE POPULARITY OP HEms There are no disabilities for heresy in these enlightened times either civil social religious political or reputational On tho contrary it is the quickest route to greatness great-ness It is the short cut to renown and popularity pop-ularity The modern heretic has all the glories of martyrdom without its sufferings suffer-ings If a man can only get up a good heresy case nowadays his fortune is made He need not be brilliant or profound or scholarly or eloquent or specially nttrao t jbijt only now eccentric and heretical A man has only to declare himself an evolutionist evolu-tionist contradict the Mosaic account of the creation ana the fall deny that Moses wrote the Pcntateuch affirm that the inspiration in-spiration of Isaiah and Paul was the same in kind and only different degree tothat Shakspearo and Tennyson affirm that tho incarnation and resurrection are not historic realities but rhetorical draperies to illustrate the idea of the indwelling of God in man and the rising of man into anew a-new life Let him do all these or any one of them and men will throw their hats into tho air and shout themselves hoarse in his glorification The newspapers at any rate will espouse his cause aud advertise him gratituously all over the world Who would not live in the nineteenth century and be a heretic Christ tan Evangclttt Dlscliilc |