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Show GIVES LECTURES ON BIBLE STUDY WORK ' Fred S. Goodman ' of New York, secretary of the International committee commit-tee of religious work in the Y. M. C. A., is in the city promoting the study of the Bible by men of all classes for the effect ef-fect of its moral teachings. As a result re-sult of his visit the Y. M. C. A. has adopted a Bible study course in its curriculum cur-riculum and the class will meet this evening at 6 o'clock for instructions by Mr. Goodman. Mr. Goodman delivered ' five ' addresses ad-dresses yesterday in thia city. The first was a heart to heart talk with the bachelor club in the dormitory of the Y. M. C. A. at 10 o'clock yesterday morning: at 11 o'clock a lecture was delivered at the Congregational church on the work of the . M. C. A.; "After Temptation Whatt" In the evening he delivered an illustrated lecture on the work of the Y. M. C. A. at the First Presbyterian ehurch. Mr. Goodman's visit to Salt Lake is in connection with a trip; through the West and Southwest and is a part of a campaign to start a revival in the study of the Bible. In the course of his remarks Mr. Goodman dwelt on the advantage to merchants, lawyers, clerks and workingmen as well as to theologians theo-logians to Bible study. He said that in the five years since the beginning of the campaign of the Y. M. C. A. for greater religious activity among its members, 80.000 Bible students have been enrolled in the classes, including some 30,000 college men. |