Show RELIGIOUS SERVICES I I Public services will becoadoctod in Die various places of worship toliiy us follows fol-lows I Ciiuitcii OF TK US CIIIIIST OP LATTCIIDVY SA1 rSalt Lili Stake of SJi m Angus M Cannon presidtit Joaui > h E Taylor and Charles W Pen ru e cuinc5r > Mvtinjj till afternoon at 2 cST > c-ST BAnKS C TIIIU1IAI Hoiy communion at 730 am Sunday school Ul J I > am Morning prayer and sermon 11 am Bible chas 03 pm Evening prayer and sermon 730 pm FIRST CosniiEGATioNAL CHURCH The Rev J Brainard Thrall pastor Public worship with sermon by the pastor at tl am Sunday school at 1223 Young Peoples Society of Christian Endeavor at C pm Seats free and everybody cordally welcomed WE are requested to say that Elder Miles Grant will preach in the Pen today at 3 oclock and in the evening he will deliver his farewell discourse in the Scandinavian Methodist Method-ist Episcopalian chapel near the corner of First East and Second South streets Everybody will be made welcome seats free Mn CHARLES ElLIS lectures in Temple of Honor hall this evnning at 8 t oclock sharp Subject Is There Any Infallible Revelation This will be the last t opportunity to hear Mr Ellis this spring METHODIST CIIUIICH Np4I E Third South street Rev C LLlbby pastor Preaching at II am and 8 pm Evening subject Perilous Times of the Last Days Sundiiy school at KM pm Young peoples meeting at iCC pm A cordial invitation to all FIRST PIIESUVTERIAN CHURCH Preaching at It I a m by the pastor R G McNiece Sabbath Sab-bath school at 12S Younjr peoples meeting at rf at G33 Preaching at 713 by hot W G IHackie D D professor in the Presbytcriar Free college Edinburgh Scotland Seats free at all these services 1UACTICAL KEMGIOX The church is stretching out its helping beneficent hands in all directions when there are souls to be saved lives to be ennobled en-nobled purified made happier In the Ho man Catholic church the good which has been done by its great temperance organizations organ-izations alone is incalculable and yet that is but one of the agencies apart from the sanctuary which it has employed for the elevation of the spiritual and physical conditions of its people In the Protestant Pro-testant churches of all denominations the major part of the work is being done outside I out-side the pulpit away from the altar Alii the churches no longer consider sufficient to only preach to and pray with their respective re-spective congregations upon stated oc cisions They have reached o ia through their parishes and surroundings neighborhoods neighbor-hoods taking hold of individuals who have but little interest in sermons or prayers generally and have enlisted their sympathy and interested thorn through organization of workinjrmcns clubs libraries coffeehouses coffee-houses guilds and the like The churches have these organization f jr adults schools for children in which the young are well taught and to which the very poor are attracted at-tracted by gifts of proper clothing The work of the church is daily and hourly growing more practical It is contending against ignorance vice sloth and drunkenness drunken-ness by such wise shrewd means as it once wholly neglected Generally to make men wiser is to make them better but the church is doing more than this It is providing pro-viding them with pleasant attractive resorts re-sorts with wholesome entertaining amusements amuse-ments or recreation It is placing itself in closer sympathy in warmer fellowship with them and the church edifice has become be-come but a part of the church in which but a part of its work is done They are going out into the highways and sand s-and gathering into the sanctuaries and working rooms libraries and schools connected con-nected with them great hosts people who in earlier times were passed by upon the other side as hopelessly irreclaimable The helping hand of the more vigorous church of the more potent religion is seen in church in every new church organization homes hospitals asylums and schools The church is not growing colder but warmer and it proves that iv is doing so not so much by what it says in the pulpit as by what it does outside the pulpit Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Ledger |