Show AT THE CHURCHES The Various Religious Services to I I IMJ Held Today I CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR SOCIETY I hrt gtls Calls W ai3j elllantCSixiptnl I the Iniefireelcr of Scrlptart III racleS General Iiglous News of Interest i ti Public terriccs will be conducted in the various places of worship today as follows r fol-lows Oiionon OP JESTJS Cnnisr OP LATTERDAY SAINTS SnK Lake Stake of Zion Angus M Caanou president Joseph K Taylor and I diaries 1onrotoC counselors > Meeting this artcruoon at 2 ootoclc MirniODisr CIHJRCH Filth South street Rev C L Libby pastor Preaching at 11 am i by the pastor Hev E L Libby subject i t Cbnbts kingdom oontrasted with earthly kinqloms Sunday school at J15 pm Young peop mooting t pm No preaching service In tho evening Strangers cordially welcomed at all services i FlKOTOOSCKEGATJOKAI CHUKOT The Rev i J UralLard Thrall pastor Public worship wth sermon II y tho pastor at 11 am Sunday school at 1U15 Young peoples meeting at o pm Seats free and everybody welcomed ST MARES CATIIKDRAI Holy communion at730 a nx Sunday school at Sli a m morning prayer and sermon at 11 a m evening even-ing prajorat7 nm ST PAULS CHAFSU Mornn prayer and sermon at 11 om Sunday school at 123u pm There are 1000 Christian Chinamen connected II con-nected with the Congregational mission in aions California and Oregon Spirit of llis It is cstimated that the Methodist Episcopal Epis-copal Church now has 2lI2a7 communi cants against 2003935 last your Indicating a net gain in SsS of over 60000 Chan Chu Sing a converted Chinaman has been licensed as a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church and will engage en-gage iu mission work among his own people peo-ple in Los Angeles Cal At the dedication of the Catholic cathe drat at Sacramento ou June 30th a died for SITb was received from the Bnai Israe synagogue as an offering to the Catholic poor And hero is a sermon for Saturday and Sunday Jewish Messenger It will surpriso most people to learn that the Icelanders are numerous enough in this country and Canada to maintain a distinct t and vigorous religious organization of their I own It is called the Icelandic Lutheran Church of America consists of twentytwo congregations and has just he d its fifth annual conference at Argjloin Manitoba New York Sun A lunatic claiming to be Jesus Christ promising to take tho negroes to tho promised prom-ised land by means of a carload of angels wings is working great evil along the Savannah Sa-vannah river The people are leaving everything they have and are Hocking to him They are not much more deluded however than many superstitious white people who follow the newest fadChis Hall Adooc Scripture the interpreter of scripture end just as OnO divine perfection may set limits to another as Gods wisdom maybe the limit of His power as His truth and holiness may be tho limit of his benevolence benevo-lence BO in scripture one truth may be tIll limit of another or a precept may be the limit of a promise It is true God gives his angels a charge concerning His saints but then He gives His saints u j charge concerning themselves And if the i angels are not to forget the saints neither fc sro the saints to tempt the Lord their God l Observe the condition and the result is infallible in-fallible Fulfill you the precept and God will fulfill tho promise But to leap from the pinnacle when there is no end to be answered spring into the air when it is not God but Satan who gives the command this is to tempt Jehovah and Gods will must be done even though the doing of it should look so pusillanimous as to provoke u sneer from the devil New York r Itsertcr MIRACLES The discussion concerning rationalism which is now agitating the Universalist body is no longer a subject of contention among Unitarians It has been settled not by quenching discussion or by narrowing fellowship but simply by according ulcst liberty to all The Unitarian church has I not taken measures to procure on the subject sub-ject of miracles or any other article of its faith absolute uniformity of opinion Some of its most honored and beloved representatives represen-tatives accept the miraculous records of the Sew Testament as veritable history Others regard them as poetical and legendary legen-dary growths Still others who look favorably fav-orably upon the claims of modern spiritualism spiritual-ism find it easy to classify some of the biblical miracles under that bead No census cen-sus has been taken no test has been applied ap-plied to find whero individual Unitarians A stand But though the Unitarian church 1t has never formulated a statement on this subject it is pretty generally agreed that J W the claims of Christianity however they t may be modified by our view of the miracles mir-acles do not rest finally upon such evidence evi-dence The result of this mutual concession conces-sion is a refreshing absence of dogmatism on both sides and a breadth of fellowship which covers all differences Christian nrglsta Unitarian CALAMITIES AS CUIS 10 KKIBNTlNfK What better lesson can any community learn from dreadful catastrophes than to reflect upon their sins and arise from their tribulations with the sense upon them of the chastening of a divine hand and the determination to make the service of God the first aim of all associated life What better lesson can sickness or sorrow bring to any individual than that he shoulll toward it as no more than his sins have deserved and be impelled to make new resolutions to l live nearer to God Of course there is a counter truth to this It does not follow because of the relation of physical evil to moral discipline that we are warranted war-ranted in pronouncing that those who suffer are sinners above all others The very contrary may be tho case To pronounce such judgments is distinctly unchristian The true lesson for those who witness distress in which they aro not directly partakers is to accept it asa as-a warning of what they themselves deserve Our Lord rebuked this tendency to judge the moral condition of others by the misfortunes mis-fortunes that befell them when it showed itself among his disciples Nevertheless ho did not allow them to go without their own moral lesson Doubtless the Gali leans whom Pilate slew were sinners doubtless tho same was true of those upon whom the tower of Siloam fell but not sinners above all others I tell you nay j but except ye repent ye shall likewise perish That temporal calamities have amoral a-moral side and that practically they are a call to repentance cannot be safely denied The ifefnff Wurci Episcopal THE CIIItlTIAK ENDEAVOR SOCICTT i The Philadelphia convention which met on Tuesday is composed of delegates from I thousands of small societies throughout the United States Canada and even foreign i countries Tho societies hnvc for thClr object ob-ject tho practice of tho principles of Christianity Chris-tianity in a quiet and effective way They tare usually organized independent of I churches and find activity in various charities chari-ties assistance to those in trouble and any deeds that appeal to the common heart of humanity Their organization and efforts are directed to what might appropriately styled everyday commonsense religion stripped of hypocrisy andeant The Society for Christian Endeavor only eight years old and its founder was elected president of the convention He was then only an obscure clergyman of Portland Port-land Me but since that time the society has grown to 5000000 members and the name of Rev F E Clark has become almost as famous as that of Robert Raikes or Loyola Indeed the spread of this movement t t move-ment among young men and women in the L United States and elsewhere is one of the ri marvels of tho age Nothing entirely like it has everbccn seen The popularity and I utility of the organization seems to be due lo the simplicity of its object and the unassuming un-assuming way in which it is carried out Members Qr asked tosubscnbe to no creed and to bled themselves to no rigid follows follow-s ing They are simply Protestant Christians Chris-tians of whatever name and do good in whatever way and wherever they find the opportunity It is a society which has already established its claim to the respect and confidence of the worldBaltimoro Herald STANDARDS OF WELLDOIXO Three standards may be named namely that of waste of retention and that of improvement im-provement tei is illustrated in the riotous life of the prodigal son who spent all We need not however confine the thought to money alone Economy of material wealth is indeed our duty Money is a medium of exchange and answereth all things We I estimate the value of our material treasures in money and we arc properly thoughtful to plflVido It to meet tho wants of our I households Wo should show fidelity in its use but there is a waste in other things a lack of appreciation of the value of our physical mental and moral equipments of life Health time learning culture beauty and refined tastes are truly aC capital i which no possessor has a right to waste or to retain nnconsecrated but gifts which are to be heartily dedicated to God the giver of every good gift How little we prize our health till it is gone How few comparatively die of old age Could you if called to account for the stewardship of this one gift your physical vigor be able even oroo with tho text Lo thou hast thine own Yoii may have saved dollars and yet squandered health by evil indulgences of appetite or neglect of the laws of well being so that instead of having an increase to show you have not oven the original capital left So with the intellectual endowments en-dowments with which God has enriched you Are your judgment conscience and will vital and forceful or do you say perhaps per-haps in regard to truth I cant believe 1 Are theso powers weak like a flabby muscle unused and atrophied Then it is true you cannot believe In the trivialities of thought you have dulled and weakened your mental powers and lost your intellectual intel-lectual aptitudes iRev Dr Tennis S Hamlin in tho Homtlctlc Rcvltw for July LOOKIXG FOIL SPECIAL GIn G-In order that a man may be heartily glad when the call conies to go unto the house of the Lord he should cultivate a personal i interest in the service It is quite a common com-mon thing for an honest man to go to his place of work or trade six days in every week with lively interest and a joyous anticipation stamped upon his face He is happy in the prospect of a day of activity and his countcnanccshows that he is happy In a somewhat similar waythat is by regarding re-garding the cLords house as a place of special spiritual activity a place for personal per-sonal participation in praise and prayer tho attendance on Sabbath services may become sucha delight to tho soul as to make ones thought of duty quite subordinate subor-dinate to his intense appreciation of the privilege of worship Ho will do the right thing in respect to church going because he loves to do it because it affords him a positive pos-itive personal spiritual pleasure Being in that frame of mind which will prompt him to silent prayer as he sits in his pew and to enthusiastic sinking when he rises with tho congregation he will be the better bet-ter prepared to take to himself the message spoken by the preacher and to receive the blessing from on high when God shall speak peace unto his people Sabbath churchgoing ought to be more than a form or custom with Christians It ought to be practiced as a precious feature of ones life as a means of soul profit and spiritual enrichment Unlike the secular search after profit no man is enriched spiritually at another mans expense In the church of God the benefits are equally open to all aspiring souls and the edification and enrichment en-richment of one tends directly to the spiritual spirit-ual profit of the entire brotherhood Every time we go to church we ought to go therein there-in search of a special blessing and make personal efforts to obtain it Interior Preabptcrian |