Show CHURCH AND CREED George Mullers Famous Orphanage Orphan-age at Bristol DISUSE DESTROYS CAPACITY Services to be Held at the Various Churches Today Glory be to God Forever and Ever Spiritual Atrophy Religious services will be held at the various churches today as follows Cnnncn OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER SAIKTS Salt Lake Stake of Zion Angus M Con president Joseph E Jngs and Charles W Penrose counselors Meeting this afternoon at 2 oclock Fmsr CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH West Third South street near Main Brainard Thrall pastor Morning senIce 11 Evening service at 730 New Years sermon at both services serces Sunday school at 1315 pm Young peoples meeting at 030 pm Seats are free and stran cordially invited gers cordily ivited ST MARKS CATHEDUAI Holy communion at 730 a m Sunday school at 945 a m Morning prayer sermon and holy communion at 1 am Bible class at 030 p m Evening prayer and sermon at 730 pm REORGANIZED CHURCH Preaching i the Mission chapel on Second South street East at2p m by Elder J R Evans and a 730 by Elder R J Anthony president of the Rocky Mountain mission Free invitation to all Seats free FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Public worship at 1 a m and preaching by the pastor R G McNiece Sabbath school at 12 US Young Peoples society at 020 Evening worship at 730 and preachingby the pastor Seats free at all these services SPinrrUAUsrs meetings Sunday morning at 1030 and evening at 7 oclock in the Temple of Honor lodge room over Deseret bank Main street Moses Hull will give a lecture at each meeting Admission gve Enquirers cor aiaiiy invited Taos C Aimstiong secretary Methodist institutions have received since last February u halfmillion of dollars dol-lars in donations thiougu the effects of Bishop Warren There are three Protestant churches in Lisbon Portugal and the pastors of all three were formerly Roman Catholic priests j Rev TP Sanford fullblooded nero fulblCo < woo was Dora a Slave m Virginia bas recently re-cently been appointed the pastor of a Bap tist church in Birmingham England There are over eight hundred ordained ministers in Madagascar and nearly four thousand four hundred native preachers 01728 church members 230418 Iherents and 1043 schools with almost one hundred thousand scholars The local contributions amount to O or nearly fifteen thousand thou-sand dollars > One hundred and nine thousand orphans have been supported and educated at Mr George Mnllers famous orphanage at Bristol England Five large housescapa ttle of affording homes for 2050 orphans have been built and sixtysix schools are now maintained Spirit of Missions Physical pain is not altogether evil It serves at least two good purposes It calls attention to the fact that an important law has been broken and admonishes the transgressor to proceedno farther in that dircc ion It is the mission of pain to prevent pre-vent suffering There is a spiritual pain which is more poignant and more important impor-tant than physical Pacgs of remorse admonish ad-monish the transgressor to repent and seek pardon The anguish of a guilty conscience con-science is not the punishment of sin but a merciful warning that punishment lurks somewhere In the direction the sinner is pursuing New York Christian Advocate Let no man say that courage and faith and heroism are dying out of the earth while the story of Stanleys journey across I Africa is ringing in our ears The enterprise enter-prise was one of tho boldest ever undertaken under-taken by an explorer Anticipating these reat results it is delightful to remember that Stanley through all his perilous march was sustained not only by his own unfaltering courage but by faith in a higher power When referring to it all though in a modest way he cannot refrain at the close from breaking outinto tho devout de-vout ascription Glory be to God forever and ever 1Erangelst I rests wholly with us what He is to be to us We can turn away from Him if we choose We can go without His sympathy His help His love Ho will not force us to accept Him I we prefer to regard Him as having been when on earth an enthusi ast or an impostor He will offer no other defense of His claims than history has made in their behalf Wo shall not be compelled to confess Him against our will Cut if we try to appreciate what He wil some of His believing children and gladly would be to all we shall welcome Him t the inmost sanctuary of our heart and let Him go no more forever He will indeed become our all in all CoiiureoationaUst The news from Madras that the naives are starving to death rather than eat with others of their caste and that they flee to the hills from the food brought by the Eng ish for fear of being forced to eat in the presence of people not of their own walk of life is the most striking instance furnished fur-nished by modern times of a people yield lug their lives rather than give up the faith that is in them Such examples were abundant on the continent of Europe dur ing the Reformation and possibly under similar pressure Christian races would show tho same fortitude for righteousness sake again As shown in Madras and measured by our light not theirs it is the zeal of fanaticism whose very strength makes it desirable that the civilization which has produced it should give way to a better and wiser one Philadelphia En quit cr CrEEDS MUST CUAXGE THE WOULD MOVES The Presbyterian creed as well as most other religious creeds have been relgious repeatedly repeat-edly changed from the first Helvenic confessions formulated early in the sixteenth teenth century un1 the adoption of tho Westminster Conf ion a century and a hal later there ha a been halfadoren re visions of the faith that created the great Presbyterian body and these deliverances even including the WestminsUr Confes sion were always adopted over earnest minorities and at times over violent and embittered protests and revision and advancement ancement have marked the history of every great Christian church Thechurch of Rome the one that might be expected to be most wedded to the dpgmas of the past has proclaimed two momentous addi ions to its creed within the memory of the livingthe infallibility of the Pope in church doctrine and the immaculate con ceptionand it was done without impair log reference for the Catholic faith The vorld is wellnigh four centuries older and much better in both intelligence and purpose than it was when the Protestant reeds came as the logical evolution from orrupt church and state and a revised creed of today in any religious organiza ionmade in sincerity and integrity would be niuth more worthy of popular rever ence than one mado in the darkness and bigotrvof ten generations ago Let honest hon-est religious conviction be paramount in all questions of religious creeds and the world however differing from them will qver respect I gi honor them Philadel p hia i Times ECllIPTUISAL ATROrnr Disuse destroys capacity Thus our control con-trol over our physical organs depends on our use of them The arm long bandaged becomes the arm paralyzed This fact car red up into the spiritual realm may suggest sug-gest some valuable lessons It may even iave a bearing on tho ultimate destiny of o those who are out of harmony with God ih this world Wo arc all created with some spiritual capacities God made us capable of development along the higher iinges of being That is only saying God lade us for himself What becomes of us if i wo bandage tho spiritual arm carry in l sling that which God made for use or if 410 bandage our eyes and keep in darkness tiat spiritual organ which God designed hould bring eternal glories near In pro portion as a man uses his body well it becomes be-comes sensitive In the same proportion ichai control over Jt Sotho development of the soul means enjoymon and freedom Tho opposite of this is lethargy and slavery It is not to feel spiritual things 1 e = and not be able to do them I consists with indifference but never with happiness happi-ness A clod of earth suffers nothing and enjoys nothing As a man goes away from God his faculties become atrophied he is undeniably descending the scale of being He is going toward a less sensitive condition condi-tion He is getting ck toward the primary prim-ary conditions of life toward the lower organisms of whom it can not be said that they keenly enjoy or keenly suffer They only exist What an idea of penalty it gives to think that a person may have immortality im-mortality without capacity for those exercises exer-cises which alone makes Immortality an endurable terian thought The Interior Presby |