Show SERMONS IN IM THE CHURCHES abstract of a number of them preached yesterday REV JOSEPH COOKS LECTURE ire into Polye asay as a living issue ond and demands postpone abent ol of statehood dr buttar Proa cheo chos on OD second methodist church chorale on tho the truo true god st pe 0 services fit at tho the young youn meno christian association the first congregational church was packed to the doors last laet night the occasion ot of the llie vast Rud lence being the lecture of rey rev joseph cook of boston the crowd cromal was vas so 0 o groat great that the school room annex had to be used assed the doors I 1 being thrown open making a much larger seating capacity the audience numbered fully 1200 people the took as ills subject the religious Hell signs of ill the e times and becan his address by buying that ihal this was his fourth malt isit to utah and when he first came tile the territory was shrouded in its midnight dark neza but bul now tile the dawn dav n was breaking lie he then went into tho the subject of mormonism viii and cut polygamy through and lb through rough with a dapier of argument and sarcasm he wrestled m with ith the hyater in plain worda and went ment carefully caie fully through the belig lous loua books of the church in ailef hla words were the crant ing of statehood for utah should by all means be held back for polygamy as a religious tenet has never been given give n up tip and immediately on the event of state stale government the priesthood will restore tile the abhorrence as they will be restored to 0 o power they say young utah will resist but the power ol of the priesthood Is too great to adroit admit of such an argument I 1 went into one of your local bookstores 3 esterday and asked for that why we Pi artlee plural 1 the bov who gave ll it to me said eald what Is in that boot book la is riot not i practiced now I 1 asked ked why he be ad his shelve sh elv 4 full of thern and he answered to sell to lo strangers I 1 lie thought I 1 was a guil lible gentile from the east but I 1 suit am not list I 1 abhor the 0 satero sy tero and I 1 have a right to slavery and polygamy alethe are thi euln relies of we have made thorn thern both outlaws and god willing milling they will mill never be sectored catered polygamy Poty Kamy and mormonism are iden tie tacal al with the harom harem and but bul chastity and monogamy are the light of the it Is impossible to defend polygamy in the pre fremence mence of educated people and I 1 note with deep pleasure tho the rapid sti art ldes ides you are mak ing ff in tho the log of your public school the baneful teachings of the system are still going on in the elie rat ruml ral districts and I 1 understand there Is a hymn still still being suns sung there which ends god bleats the wife who strives to ald aid lir liar husband all she can to get gel it dozen Laur Laught literl crl why do the luaders leaders tench leach such things or allow such publications to be sold as those I 1 have purchased pui plan chased there is an eleventh commandment thou ahalt not be hoodwinked 1 anil I 1 follow that here a number of people ale left the speaker referred to and ana some remarks made by mr kar on tile the unity of god and also alan up tip the unitarian rell reUf flon glon saying thill it degenerates into more mere theism lie ile spoke at length on an tho the parliament of religions nell gions lately held at chicago and gave many interesting reminiscences io in closing lie he spoke of tho the lords lorda r baler aa tho the greate tat of creeds and full dissected each sentence in conclusion lie he mald bald again referring to the local situation education here will steadily increase and with it will corno come greater reverence for or the ilia lords lorda prayer the greatest help of christianity ity said and by find and by with tho the coming ot of the sun run when its orb Is fully risen wo we shall no more think of comparing other religious to christianity than of comparing the firefly to the sun eun unitarian A laico audience auit lence at the theater listened to 0 rev mr utters sermon upon pra brair cr it a synopsis of oc which la is here given some person bad written to mr air utter giving what purported to be a number of made by evangelical christians Chrls tlapa upon the that t are part of the sunday service at the theater and the sermon yen was something i of a reply to these criticisms the first rot charge N as that mr utter preaches one thing and praia another lie he steins to 1 be engineering ills his way through the prayer with difficulty trying to avoid the baying of something ir consistent with his preaching 1 I deny sold said the speaker any consciousness of any such difficulty if I 1 hesitate heal tate ate it Is for uck lack of words word to properly c express x press the emotions thit that th it I 1 fly to espar express ce 9 as a fully i as aft hossli possible 3 le at such time I 1 have no thought of consistency no c care a re or re gard for anything that I 1 or untone anyone has haa said before I 1 am sorry it if anyone lias has so interpreted my prayers but the th supposed difficulty and engineering do not exist why do ale I 1 make a prayer why should I 1 riot nol pray I 1 am a christian and atu it my lawa of way my religion do not nol coincide with the views of others they are mince raLtY haild and tit in my estimation not flent with will pi diels the difficulty ini culty ilia my critics seems to be in my belief in tho the universal univ cisal reign of low law nihiko prayer seems to thorn them to impey expectation ot of interference in the ill order I 1 do bellove anil I 1 do not believe six in I 1 do not play for loin join or fair weather nor for I 1 the he rest n to health ot of the ih sick alclo nor for anything that involves any change chanco in lie hie phy physical kleal universe rul put it be said that in tile the spiritual law also prevails tills and that to pray for or blessings blessing the tation tallon ot of a nil nali incle acle to me it seems that prayer rightly Is the iho natural means mcton of obtaining such bless inea iriv to pray for or h deliverance trim arm temptation for or courage of or pa tience la Is the direct and true trite way or of reaching tile tho blessings sought true prayer Is IB not the th use me of forms of woi do it Is ig devotion it la Is giving ourselves oui wholly to t the wish to be in harmony will god the form orm of 0 prayer the norda used to express this sense of de may often be inadequate the r and accurate to Is often inconsistent with acason often even contrary to the very m ISIL ono Is tr tri ing hut to PI the beat prayers art are not those that beu bee they are those that care arc pure aspiration thanksgiving and devotion and that ask nothing the subject of the bermon bermen next sunday will bo be Is IB lh the or of jesus tile corn c atone r of oc christianity second M X E charob services ill at the second 11 E church sunday evening george U V jayne pastor paster text acts x xi ll 11 23 whom therefore ye ignorantly worship him declare I 1 unto you paul preaches preach frit in the market place to a mixed multitude heio socrates unfolded those doctrine for fop which he drunk the hemlock but the apostle fau delivered hla his gospel message lie he Is then escorted to blars lull notice his surroundings before him Is the acropolis mag magnall nill tent cent temples on the he ilg t Is the bema on the left the academy Aen demy while the whole citadel Is studded with demor llla iola sacred to religion and to patriot iam notice the character of il the people they were vere curious cur tou cultured and relic 1 but they did not know the true god th that it there in A god few fen adny it if title till three questions ore are very important fliflet what are hii attributes what relM loii d no 0 1 I in to nim him third how may 1 I secure ilia favor ivor paul in it a few words nords tells the die athenians much about god road read acts X ovll 2431 1431 24 14 31 the seimon men Is and what la Is the re result I 1 gel some mocked and others I 1 were co converted n v arted areta masl A man mail cannot understand god unless union ho he believes the bible from what other bouce con can lie get beet it 0 just conception of the dirt ri character surely not front from nature nature teaches us ua some lep leono song halt but they would be involved in mud much flim culty but for the light that thai thinea upon them froidl the written word tm science and reve botlon never conflict because both rate me truth tile enemies of the biblo aay nature is kind and the god li is cruel they wonder how god vin cin be just and anal cave the sinner that thac mya my tery lery la Is solved when v hen we behold hla 1114 eon boil on the lie cross it we study nature carefully m we will see epe ni much severity in it as aa lit in me e bible we vc may not be able to all ll 11 but 1 I laid mo more love lit in tile the nible bible man anywhere else naturi ture does riot not us about the ONo 01 agin lcm or oi fall of rean man it given no remedy for evil it cannot solve the great question of human need it know ings a nothing of 0 a cross or of a crown it never forgives it derives ali ts motia es only from tile the present world it ahna is no strong incentives to girtue or effective restraints to ell it does riot not hold in men on to the right AN when hen thy they would do w m m rone lis the bible lima has none of these detects defects it teaches vis us what the law Is before ie break it it makes the path of duty duly plain it gives us a remedy it 13 an to the believer it al I 1 a motives from tile future it la is the great frent panacea for humn boef it saves men from vice to virtue it Is a balm baim for or enery cery wound it la IS the power of god unto salvation to every one that the entrance of 0 thy words light be AL a stran gor to god until lie believes in jesus chromi and ami accepts him as ills h per atonal savior the athenians Allien lani old did riot not believe in jesus and whit malit a muddle they more in jesus not nature la is ills groat great re vealor of divine character accept jesus QS as our personal savior and no altar will lave have to lie be reared with tile the inscription to the unknown god at st patricks church who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the iho tree trec peter I 1 1134 1124 11 34 24 the vi ritual or of the humin human race on the breo of the cross Is to tile the believer an object of constant gratitude to the unbeliever it la Is an object of sandal bandal raw as well as a an excuse for his hie infidelity defore before christ came sacrifices were offered to the divinity everyN licie alft on nil all sides humanity ill was effected by a besl desire re of elf expiation this found relief only by the shedding of nood blood or of ilo victims thins because uni the effusion of blood in a spirit of sacrifice reputed to poesel it a virtue or oc reconciliation between heaven and batth this notion so constant and universal and the first landmark landi nark in the history of nations becomes more m 0 C from the fact that tha t all ancient sacrifices flees woi c L the iho name kain E the victim was different wt fr from can the culprit lie ho was as pure and innocent at least con volitionally veni tonally so considered tile was considered a substitute for man had bad to procure expiation by the shedding or of its blood and finally IL a part of the victim way was consumed by fire and another lo portion became ahe food of the fleer anal ami the wor ivor shirion all AIL ceased when the light ight of christianity dawned upon the world An and dafter after maty two weeks christ choll be slain and in the half of oc the week the victim and the sacrifice fall fail daniel ix 26 27 the sacrifice of christ put an ond end to all other altri floes those abolished had Us as their object and their reason of being the great sacrifice of oc calvary in paradise lRe it a liberator who was waa 0 to o redeem mankind from the iho sin inherited by Immo immolating lating himself for sinners aInner Sf wa was a promised to keep alive this promise and nourish the hope of redemption nn an institution of it wa was 4 established by god this was waa th tho e origin or of the sacrifice they uc tie signed to be irea of the sacrifice of the messiah and would and actually did cease as soon ni as that sacrifice crince sn was waa pi lulled giving ploce to another memorial sacrifice destined to recall continue and perpetuate the treat center rac sacrifice of ill the cross this memorial sacrifice Is the rit of the holy eucharist Ku charlat the extension of oc the iho sacrifice of jesus just as aa tile ancient were the of the lion of that divine victim I 1 T Y M X C A tito the for men only at the young lions christian Armo association clation was well attended attend cil special music was rn real dered by mew woodward land and abell tho the address was delivered by dennis text la xhu 14 1 4 the following la IS a synopsis the 0 r jeremiah in hla his none along describing tle the new jerusalem Is very clear the strength of tho the heavenly city Is not Us its the secret of the pence peace ft lil h ua its inhabitants enjoy Is not in the bult bul marRe of granite nor tit in the mighty guns of it a modern wai far c the strength of the new la Is in the character of those who make up the elly cl y thy they are anre the saved ones salvation has is goit god appointed tor for walli ond bulwarks bulwa lift ae e the gates look at the the city where peace forever dwells dwell all that have aavo entered there ale aie righteous all hie elie people keep tile tho truth 1 very one in trusts hrusth in the lord rhind Is ia staged lit in the lite lord jehovah Jehova li in truth in sri in god la Is everlasting strength this strength this hope this thin security this trust this abiding falth faith JB in the peace that cassea all understanding |