Show CHURCH AM CREED The Success Evangelistic Work i Kentucky IS RELIGION A FAILURE Divine Services to be Held at the Various Vari-ous Places of Worship Today The Lutheran Annual for 1890 Religious service will be held in tho various churches today a follows CHtmcn OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS Salt Lake Stake of Zion Angus M Cannon president Joseph E Taylor and Charles W Pcnrosc counselors Meeting this afternoon at 2 oclock ST MARKS CATHEDRA Holy communion at 750 am Sunday school at 945 am Morning service with sermon at 1 a m Bible and confirmation class at GU50 p m Even ins prayer and sermon at 730 Daily services this week as follows except Good Friday Holy communion 7am morn In prayer 845 a m evening prayer with preaching by the bishop 4 p m Saturday service of renewal of baptismal vows 730 rj in os In Good FridaySlorning prayer 945 a m special senIces with addresses on the words spoken from the cross 12 m evening prayer with lecture 730 p m FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH West Third South streetnear Main JBralnardThrall pastor Morning service with preaching at I a m Evening service > with preaching at 730 pIn p-In Sunday school at 1215 p m Young Peo pies Society of Christian Endeavor at 730 pm Seats free everybody welcome REORGANIZED CHURCH Preaching in the Mission chapel on Second South street East at2p m and 7p m by ElderK J Anthony president of the Rocky Mountain mission Invitation to all Seats free THE Spiritualists association of Salt Lake city will commemorate the fortysecond anniversary anni-versary of modern Spiritualism this Sunday evening at 715 oclock in the Temple or Honor lodge room over Deseret National bank The public are invited Admission free THOMAS C ARMSTRONG Secretary There 213 Presbyterian ministers in California Cal-ifornia of whom thirtynine aro without charge I is worthy of notice that the jokes of tho comic papers which are directed against religion are the feeblest in these periodicals To put the matter on the lowest low-est plane dont read antireligious witticisms witti-cisms for they arc quite sure t be stupid Christian Union Ono who makes himself thoroughly acquainted ac-quainted with tho Bible will not be likely to fancy that sort of preaching that uses the Bible mainly t find texts for sermons and then looks almost everywhere else for the subject matter of discourses This surely is not preaching tile gospel Independent Inde-pendent Is religion a failure asks the Cir slfai > Union and declares that the daily newspapers news-papers aro inclined t answer the question in tho affirmative Not at all The people who practice religion are now and then a failure and a newspaper which prints all the news has to notice the fact but religion is not a failure and there never was a time when more money was raised for it or more good works done in its name Philadelphia Phila-delphia Press The evangelistic work in Kentucky has reached remarkable success Within eight years 59003173 have been expended 59 new churches have been organized half as many more resuscitated 40 now church buildings erected 9500 members received on confession of faith tho Synod had only 9000 when the work began tho number G lJegn of candidates increased from 5 to 3 and Presbyterian floated in 16 new corns finc fincWe must walk circumspectly in these days A man scarcely dares open his mouth without being charged with putting his foot in it I he says that God is imminent immi-nent in nature forthwith somo scholast will rise up and charge him with being a pantheist I he verge by a hair the other way another will say ho is an atheist I he insist that God is not abstract arbitrariness arbitrari-ness ho will bo called an Arminian I ho dwells too fondly on tho love of God ho will be set down as a Universalist Never before was the Bible itself such a center of interest in the world a at tho present time I is now tho study of scholars tho themo of thinkers and tho object of attention by the common people all tho world over as at no former time When therefore such a man a Mr Gladstone Glad-stone signifies his purpose of a series of special articles upon tho Bible ho is sure of a worldwide hearing Mr Gladstone is t write a number articles of this nature and is t give them to tho public simultaneously simultan-eously in the pages of the Sunday School Times in this country and in the pages of Good irords in England The Lutheran Annual for 1S90 contains much valuable information and evinces care and interest in its preparation From it we learn that the Lutheran church in America has grown from a mere handful in 1038 t be one of the strongest and most numerous religious besides in tho land or has increase from one minister one congregation con-gregation and fifty members in HillS to 50 synods 4013 ministers 7911 congregations and 1080148 members in 1889 Its most rapid growth ba been within the last twentyfive years gaining from ISM tolSSO 17 synods lbC3 ministers 5095 congregations congrega-tions and 791327 members As Lutheranism Lutheran-ism is strong in tho United States so is it throughout the world having 28001 ministers min-isters thfl mnmh 38235 churches and 50012180 bap n Tho Congrcaatlonalist says The Christian Mirror estimates that the lottery business draws from tho state of Maine O annually nually I is hardly less damaging and demoralizing the liquor business And these statements ought t move citizens t urge upon their representatives in Congress Con-gress the enactment of the bills recently introduced giving postmasters greater authority to keep lottery letters ana circulars circu-lars out of the mails for if that could bo done tho miserable swindle would be practically prac-tically suppressed The Examiner Bapt says We neither expect nor wish to see a prevailing Baptist ritual At the same time we are not distressed dis-tressed or alarmed to note among our churches a disposition to make the service of worship more interesting and attractive Many Baptist congregations join nowadays nowa-days in repeating the Lords Prayer and in responsive reading eo the Psalms The Gloria in Excolsis is sung by many every Sunday Wo even know of somo in which that grand old symbol notable alike for its comprehensiveness of statement and the Saxon purity and strength of it language lan-guage the Apostles Creed is regularly repeated the congregation standing and either uniting with the minister or else responding at the close with an Amen The Christian On on says There is nothing noth-ing more foolish than an investment I a lottery except for a state to license one A single ticket may result in greater gain than loss t the purchaserthough in the long run it rarely hanpens but a hundred thousand tickets which a vholn state would buy are certain t result in a tremendous tre-mendous loss and this loss in ad tis keeps on il creasing with tho demoralization that nn sues We are glad to record the protest which tho chief justice of North Daioica has made to one of the state Senators He begs him tosavo tho state front the stigma of being tho tool of gamblers under the guiso of a lottery Poverty we can stand infamy never The enterprises and outlay of tho church in our day must bo on a scale commensurate commensur-ate with the magnitude of commercial enterprises en-terprises which are among the wonders of the age In the one sphere as in tho other there must bo exhibited pewor of organized organ-ized effort and aggregated capital The day of small things is not to be despised But wo cannot shut our eyes t tho fact that tho day of great things is at hand nor ignore the responsibilities they impose upon the men who have the high honor of representing repre-senting tho cause of Christ in this wonderful wonder-ful time The work of the church for tme missions for church extension for Christian Chris-tian education and all other legitimate Christian enterprises must bo undertaken baa scale hitherto unknown or the chi dren of this world will show themselves so much wiser than tho children of light as t put a discount upon the claims of Christianity Chris-tianity and to bring a reproach upon that name which is above every name |