Show 1 OFFERINGS IN CHURCHES Collections for the Scofield Widows and Orphans RAISE OVER THREE HUNDRED j But for the Rain Which Kept Numerous I merous ChurchGoers at Home the Contributions Would Havo Been Much Larger The Amount Raised nt the First Methodist Was 13763 Rev Mr Henry and Rsr Mr Scott Describe the Terrible Scenes at Scofield I Thorn were special contributions taken In a number of the churches yesterday yes-terday In aid of the Scolleld sufferers fund and in the First Methodist and Westminster Presbyterian churches I special scnmons were preached The heavy lain of the morning I ied mired church attendance to Us lowest lerms so that much less was done than was expected At WestmInster PresbyterIan church the congregation contributed 5U5 and moro may be added late on The pastor Rev George Bailey preached a strong discourse on the disaster from the text There Is not u step between be-tween me and death 1 Sam xx 2 The speaker elaborated these four points The terrible occurrence teaches the fearful uneerlninty of life It should remind us of the final dl < solu tlon that awaits the earth that we can not violate the laws of God with I Impunity and the wisdom of set lting I reconciliation with God WHAT MR HENRY SAW I At the First Methodist church Rev A H Henry made two special points In his discourse the timely and graceful grace-ful action of the Salt Lake public In I contributing flowers at the suggestion I sugges-tion of The Trlbuno and the exceeding exceed-ing generosity of the Pleasant Valley I Coal company He said It was Impossible Im-possible for him to portray the terrible sadness of the scenes One poor woman wo-man said I have lost four brothers father and husband and litre arc my little fatherless children the oldest fj Mc years old and the youngest In arms The disaster seemed to shake the faith and hope of these poor people peo-ple because of Its enormity and the greatest present t need is for some power lo lestoro their faith and hope There Is not a case of destitution but what is quickly relieved by generosity One wealthy woman from the outside went from house to house leaving 5 ut cel place and 1 every extending other comfort The speaker said the I trying time would come later when the dull 1 1 routine of ordinary life vns resumed Then sympathy and comfoil would be needed One old Finnish t oman kept counting on her fingers One two three four liveail gone Mr Henry detailed other heartsaddening scenes of desolation in various homes and told uf the good work being accomp lished by Rev Mr Fowler of the Sun dayschool union and staled that the worlc of the union would be systematized systema-tized now more limn ever before in Unit part of the country and called for contributions for this missionary work and lot the relief of the suf ferers The handsome sum of 13763 was contributed The disaster was Incidentally al luded to tu the First PresbyterIan church by Assistant Pastor Bioch and the mornings I contribution amounted to about MO whleh nn elder said later would probably he erodilcd to the Sco iVld fund but as yet no action had been taken by i the I session DKRCRinBD BY M R SCOTT At St Pauls church Curate Daunt Scott prefaced bin sermon in the morn inS with a brief description of the sccMiea at the mines stating the dif ficulty of realizing the terrible nature of the situation and asking his au dience to do what it could when the plain nat poss nl for the sufferers The contribution amounted to 2G At the First Baptist church nothing special was done because of the small audience due to the storm Eighteen dollars was the sum dropped in the contribution box at St Maries cathedral at the morning ser Ice The attendance here too was light owing to the rain The contribution box at St Marys cathedral yielded 21 I that amount be i lug gathered at two services morning and evening At the First Congregational church although the attendance was small on account of the rain a collection amounting to some 535 was taken for the ScoMcld fund At the Central Christian church no collection was taken yesterday for the Scofield fund but a social will be held at the church by Its members Thursday evening when free will of ferings will be received Al the East Side Baptist church last night with an attendance somewhat below the average a collection to the amount of 23 was taken for the bene fit of the sufferers from the mine explosion ex-plosion at Scofield rtev E H Shanks did not refer to the disaster In his sermon but prior to tho collection he staled that the congregation were all acquainted with the facts and that It was useless to rehearse them that money and not words las needed and he wished them to express their sympathy sym-pathy with a liberal collection r |