Show AT THE CHURCHES The Various Religious Services to be Held Today SUPPORT OF CHURCH SCHOOLS The Street Children Religion that Neglects the Present Life is of Little Account I blic worship will be conducted in the various churches today as follows Cncitcn OF JESUS Cnnisx OP LATTEIIDAY SA1NrSalt Lake Stake of Zion Angus M Cannon president Joseph E Taylor and Charles W Penrose counselors Meeting this afternoon at 2 oclock Fntsr PiiESBYTEiiiAN Public worship at Ii I am and preaching by the pastor R G Me Niece Sabbath saool at 1225 Young Pco I pies Society of Christian Endeavor at CM Evening worship at 730 and preaching by the pastor Falter CONRUEOATIONAI ClIUKCtl The Rev J Brainard Thrall pastor Public worship with sermon by the pastor at 11 am Sunday school at 1215 Young Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor at 5 pm Seats fice and public cordially Invited Sr MARKS CATHEDRAL Holy communion at 8 am Morning prayer litany and sermon at 11 am Sunday school at 245 pm Evening prayer and instruction at 330 pm Bible class at 630 pm Evening prayer and sermon at 730 pm METHODIST Cituiicn No 41 E Third South street Preaching at 11 am and 7SO pm bv the pastor C L Libby Sunday school at 12 5 pm Young peoples meeting at 615 pm Subject morning and evening The real enemies ene-mies fought by the Christian Church In the evening its attitude towards Mormonlsm will be especially consider Both sermons should be neard to fully appreciate the evening discourse Cninrss Ems will deliver a free lecture in the Feieral court room this evening at S oclocK Subject Reason and Kerelation A IECTUUE will be given in the Twelfth ward meetinghouse today at 030 pm by Prof J E Talmage Subject Atheism and Idolatry Lukunpra on the Congo river has a Baptist Bap-tist church of seventy inembei The number of places of Christian worship wor-ship in England and Wales certified recorded re-corded and on the register at the close of 1SS3 was o8o7 an increase of 630 in the year Ths Rev Dr A F Beard says that the ftar ihahhl governments wars with less than half a million of Indians have cost the United States 500000000 enough plantmissions in all the heathen tribes in the world Spirit of Missions Some statistician asserts that the net I gain of new churches in the United States I during the year of 1SS8 was 6434 the increase in-crease in the number of ministers was 4505 I while the increase in churchmembers was 774801 The average gain for each day of the year was seventeen churches twelve I ministers and 2120 members D L Moody announces that on the 4th day of April 18S9 he will begin holding in Chicago a convention of Christian workers similiar to that held in tho summer at Northtleld These meetings will continue from thirty to sixty days and instruction will bo given by wellknown leaders of Christian thought and action There are 1218 Young Mens Christian associations in America 523 in England Ireland and Scotland 1392 in Germany Holland and Switzerland in Japan and 553 in eighteen other countries It is an interesting in-teresting fact that there is an organization I I at Nazareth where Christ lived for thirty I years and Jerusalem where he was I crucified Twelve years ago the Mcdoc Indians were un vilized heathens Now they are a community I com-munity of industrious farmers with half their number professing Christians It cost the United States government 1S4S i ODO > to care for 2200 Dakota Indians seven I years while they vero savapes After they were Christianized it cost for seven years 120000 a saving of 1718000 I CIIUKCII SCHOOLS One of the palpable duties of all churchmen church-men is the support of the churchs schools of learning If we believe at all in this church in its historic claims in the associations associa-tions which cling to it and the traditions it cherishes we shall not neglect any oppor ai sett tunity to advance the interests f its educational = edu-cational institutions But apart from all the predjudices we ought to have in favoif of church schools we can get from them as good preparation for our children at as small a cost as is furnished by any school in the country The advantages they offer and the instruction they give are second to noneChurch of Today THE NEGLECTED CHILDREN If the civil authorities cannot and do not attend to the needy neglected children that go to swell the great lists of crime pauperism pauper-ism and insanity thc Christian philanthropy philan-thropy should do it Christianity thank God is coming to be more and more practical prac-tical in its aspect and work We are coming com-ing to feel more anti more that a religion that has everything for a future world and I nothing for this world has nothing fir either A religion that neglects this pro I ent life is a mother who neglects her infant with the expectation that manhood will set j everything right There is a class of pei sons who spend their lives in trying to I e good There is another class who spend j their lives in trying to do good Genuine j goodness is something more than a me C J selfseeking for eternity It is somethir K I more than that sort of pious living whi h means little else than a safe and sagacious investment in the skies It is a working together with God in this world for the ui lifting and advancement the human race It is a seeking to lessen the pains and burdens bur-dens of life among the toilers and strugglerr It is a reaching out after the children i f poverty and wantthe hapless little one s who have been hurled prematurely against the lifewrecking problems of existence Help that can run to help the helpless and comfort the comfortless always keeps closest by the side of God Perhaps we shall find at last in the day of final disclosure disclos-ure that the deepest and most far reaching influence that we ever exerted was the influence in-fluence that we exerted over the helpless and neglected little children of the streets Perhaps we shall find it to be the best work wo ever accomplished At all events it is well to live well And he lives the longest who lives the best He is great who confers con-fers most of blessing on mankindMrs Sarah B Cooper in the Union Signal TOE TOCNO PEOPLES AGE Such it is in a marked degree Some of us who are unwilling to be called aged note the glad contrast in our churches between the position accorded to the young now and in the days of our youth Indeed little if any place in the activities of the church was made for childhood and youth twenty five years ago The youth were taught that they were hopelessly in the thrall ot Satan and must remain there until stricken into unendurable conviction of sin by a light from Heaven Such distorted views and impressions are largely dissipated in our churches by the gracious results which are witnessed In the mouths of babes God is perfecting praise in the sanctuary The churches with open arms like our Lord himself are saying Suffer the children chil-dren to come The children are speaking auu singing hallelujahs j and the people press to hear them A little child shall lead them never was so true The spiritual life and active beneficence of many of our churches find their perennial source in the hearts of youth It is the young peoples age in the history of Christendom Happy he pastor happy the church that glaldy recognizes the unmistakable lead of God along these lines and hastens to cooperate Zions Herald Methodist i PERNICIOUS LITEIUTURE Catholic parents have mnch to answer for if they do not enforce and encourage Catholic literature in their families Seeing See-ing in these days the condition things and the many inducements spread out to impress on the plastic mind irreligious teaching to wean the thoughtless heart from the fold of Christ and his church we hould strive with all our moral might to place > around the tender youth the safeguards safe-guards of our holy religion combat the prevailing pre-vailing license of opinion and of action which tend to demoralize society rend nuptial nup-tial tics and deprecate the union of religious and secular education Catholic books and Catholic periodical literature should be en ouraged and fostered in every Catholic family throughout the Christian world The seed of relgicus instruction should come the parents its happy fruition cultured by Catholic teachers till it grows with the young bloom with maturity and ripen with old age There are many Catholic Cath-olic parents conscientious enough about other things who do not seem to grasp the situation of impending danger or see the necessity of cultivating a conscience on the duty of discrimination in reading Unfortunate Unfor-tunate parents A feat ful responsibility rests upon you This is a duty you cannot shirk if you desrc to be in common with Christ and his church There are moments of joy when the soul in fullness of gratitude and thanks beholds the inexhaustible fruit funess wherewith divine power has gifted the church to the great benefit of the whole world and yet there comes up before us the sad commentary On ten million Catholics that they do not half support the few strictly Catholic family papers of the country Church Pioyress Catholic |