| Show CHURCH AND CREED J I 1 I t Divine Services to be Held at the I Various Churches Today THE MINISTRY OF SORROW What the Church Really Needs is Revival Notjlevision The Catholic Missionaries Mission-aries Among the Indians Religious services will be held at the various churches today as follows CRulleR OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTERDAY SAINTS Salt Lake Stake of Zion Angus M Cannon president Joseph E Taylor and Charles W Penrose counselors Meeting this afternoon at 2 oclock PDIST CONGREGATIONAL Cmmcn West Third South streetiiear Main JBrainarcl Thrall pastor Services with preaching at 11 am and at 730 pm Sunday school at 1215 pm Society of Christian Endeavor at 6 j3O pm Seats free and everybody welcomed ST MARKS CvrnEDRAi Holy communion at 730 a m Sunday school at 945 Morning service with sermon at 11 a in Bible and confirmation con-firmation class at 030 p m Evening prayer and sermon at ri2Q pm FIRSTPRESBYTERIAN worship at 11 ain a-in i and preaching by the pastor K G McNiece Sabbath school at 1225 Young Peoples society at 020 No preaching service this evening METHODIST CnuRCrr 11 East Third South street Preaching today at 11 am and 730 pm by the Rev G M Jeffrey Young people s meeting at 030 pm A most coruial welcome will be given to all SPIRITUALISTS MEETING This Sunday even ing in the Temple of Honor lodge room ocr DeseretNatlonal bank Main street at oclock Enquirers invited Admision frec BAPTIST CHURCH Corner Second South and Second West streets Sunday school at 10 am Preaching at 11 am and 730 pm Young peoples peo-ples meeting at 045 pm REORGANIZED CHURCH Preaching in the Mission chapel on Second South street East at 2p m and 730 p m Free invitation to all Seats free ST PAULS CHAFEI Morning prayer and sermon at 11 am Sunday school at 1230 pm Evening prayer and sermon at 730 pai The first convert in the Upper Congo valley was recently baptized at Equator station The valley contains 30000 people peo-ple Rev Horace G Underwood the first Protestant missionary to Corca is now at Yokohama at work on a CoreanEnglish dictionary and grammar The last census in New Zealand reveals the interesting fact of a profession of re licion on the part of no less than 05 percent per-cent of the whole population The Pilgrims Progress has been translated into Amharic the language of Abyssinia The book has now been trans lated into eightyfour languages A rare and valuable copy of the Bible published in 1599 known as the Bishops Bible first printed in 1GGS has been placed in the public library at Manchester Mass the gift of Miss Ella Lee to the Manchester Historical society What people want nowa days is a re ligion of breadth They have been cramped and choked long enough by narrow nar-row conceptions They need the larger outlook the broader sentiment the full heavens and not a petty corner of the sky Jewish Chronicle New Orleans If a thing be wrong in itself to do it in the name of religion does not make the thing right but only drags religion down to the level of the wrong Religion can not consecrate con-secrate any sin but sin may defile the name of religion Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil MidContinent Two hundred years have wrought no little change in the angle of theologica l vision throughout all the denominations not excepting the Roman Catholic Even the Greek church has felt upon its cheek of bronze the breath of progress and is not quite so bigoted as it was once Chicag o InterOcean In politics in religion and in religiou and moral and social development we have entered or are entering upon a new era of transformation under the quickening in iluenee of the west and it is the highest glory of the missionary that he has contributed con-tributed no small share to this upheaval of a nation of 250000000 Sadliers Catholic Directory for 1S90 just out estimates the Catholic population of the United States at 8277039 There are 8332 priests 7523 qhurches 3302 chapels 35 theological seminaries with 2132 students stud-ents 102 colleges G35 academies 553 charitable chari-table institutions 3191 parochial schools with 033233 pupils 13 archbishops 73 bishops 13 archdificesses GO dioceses 5 vicariates apostolic audi prefecture apos tolic Christianity is not dead nor does it sleep It does not accomplish all its work today because it is not going to die tomorrow to-morrow It works out its ends gently and sweetly not with the destructive energy of a tempest or a conflagration or a bloody revolution We are hearing much now of the eighthour movement Is not this per haps a leaning in the right direction 1 Is it not a step in the forward march of a humanity entitled to a fuller emancipation under the new gospel of love What the church really needs is revival not revision If half the energy and eloquence elo-quence that have been expended in this controversy had been directed to the conversion con-version of sauls there would have been great rejoicing by this time on earth and in heaven What Presbyterian church has had a revival this winter If there be one anywhere in the line let it raise a shout We would be glad to hear an answer but we fear there will only be a great silence that can be painfully felt Central West Presbyterian STATEMENT OF CATHOLIC MISSIONS The annual statement of the commission for the Catholic missions among the Indians and the colored people consisting of Cardinal Gibbons Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia and Bishop Kain of Wheeling Wheel-ing has just been completed It shows that the total receipts from all sources for 1S89 including a balance of 265575 were 57200348 and disbursements 50795928 leaving a balance of 410420 The largest contributors to the fund were the archdiocese archdio-cese of Philadelphia S4GT the archdiocese archdio-cese of New York 0100 and the archdiocese arch-diocese of Boston 5500 The largest item it the list of disbuisements is 0250 for the bureau of Catholic Indian missions at Washington 85000 for St Tosephs seminary semin-ary Baltimore where priests are trained exclusively for service in the colored missions mis-sions and 3000 each to the New Orleans and Richmond missions THE MINISTRY OF SORROW It often seems exceedingly strange that what is most unwelcome and disagreeable to us should be so necessary to our growth But no one can doubt the truth of the fact both for the individual and the race that there is great education that can come only through sorrow and that we learn by the things we suffer The effect of sorrow on the individual is to refine and purify and to increase the receptivity of all the faculties facul-ties It operates upon the intellectual as well as the emotional nature and enriches both thought and feeling Many of the finest utterances of human thought as well as the purest and noblest expressions of C sentiment have been due to the influence of sorrow Its effect upon a company of people is to bring them into closer sympathy sym-pathy and more perfect harmony than is possible to any otheragency It is nearly always true that our times of pleasure and enjoyment are marred by some manifestation manifesta-tion of envy jealousy or selfishness In the presence of sorrow these are banished and the soul is dominated by compassion and love The desire to minister for the timeis stronger than the desire to receive and that is what binds the souls of men together most closely and firmly The discipline cipline of sorrow and suffering is a hard one but the fruits are among the rarest and finest that grow on our tree pf life Beacon |
