Show ON THE WING facts gathered from reading conversation and observation it is quite a change to leave behind us the grand old mountains and beautiful f al valleys of Utah the green fieldsend field sand orchards and gardens clothed with foliage and flowers and after a lew few days ride to find ourselves in a level country where the grass gram has scarcely emerged from the soil the trees not yet commenced to bud and no hill or stream to vary the monotony of the landscape but the physical change in our eur surroundings is not greater than the difference between the people in utah and the people here leoyle a and the moral sentiments by which they seem to be actuated A non mormon lady who had resided in utah made the remark in the writers hearing that of all people among whom she had bad resided the the kind estand most sympathetic and had very clear conceptions of right and wrong whatever may be the correctness of her assertions sert ions one thing is certain the notions of right and wrong among the masses in these lower altitudes are strangely confused WE WB STOPPED IN CHICAGO on the sabbath and witnessed some queer doings at least half a dozen wen men and women stopped us on the street and besieged us to go to their gospel meetings on the other hand the members of tae salvation army while attempting to parade were arrested by the police and put in the city jail meanwhile the baseball base ball players were out in full fall force many of the mechanics were at work as usual and the saloons and gambling gambli Bg dens were open luring by means of music and their many colored brilliant lights 1 t the he stranger and the unwary no wonder then that Chi cagos regular police of men is found insufficient and the various business firms of the city are arc obliged to hire at least 1000 more of merchant police to watch their interests or rather watch the regular police who it is sometimes said act in the interests of the criminal class although there are over churches or wilf places blaces ot of worship in chicago in which ch were held more than religious services on last sabbath still the abold hold of the churches on the tee masses is so slight and the growth of infidelity under the specious names of faith healers christian scientists and secular unions is so great that some plan must be adopted to prevent the nation from rushing into the maelstrom of atheism and anarchy we have used the words of Rev Josiah strong general secretary of the national evangelical alliance who is traveling through the principal cities lecturing to large audiences hoping thereby to abou arou arouse se the churches from their lethargy and excite the masses by some new issue as the politicians d say mr strong said Ti TW NEVILS EVILS which threaten churches are found almost exclusively in cities where a large proportion of the people are without homes without means and migrate frequently the three great read evils of our times are the unequal distribution trib ution ol of wealth in cities the migrations grat ions of the poorer classes and the saloon where the churches are counted by tens the saloons are counted by hundreds where the churches afford five hours for the preaching of their doctrines the saloons afford an hundred hours for the preaching of sin la in no city of the united states is christianity keeping pace with the unfolding population everything today is organized except the protestant P ro churches and they are most thoroughly disorganized another one of the great evils is found in the social lines that are being drawn be between employers fl 0 and aad employed emp loyes between the laboring a b 0 rin and independent classes the laboring go ring class is largely in e excess X of the other and yet its members can seldom be found in the large lar e churches in the cities not one laboring man in twenty can be found who 1 any service whatever just now ministerial associations are all the rage throughout the northern states in conversation with numbers of ministers as well as from public prints gathered lq in the course of my journey I 1 learned that there are two subjects that will provoke much discussion this thia year in the various syri synods associations and conferences of the Wo protestant Prote staat clergy one of these is the admission of women delegates to clerical associations the advocates of this measure hope to thereby increase the sphere of womans comans work and add to the zeal of the lay membership of their churches A revision of ef the course of study for theological students Is the other SHO a 0 eject lect that will no doubt tar bring 1 n g forth warm debate it 16 has long lone been known awn that the ability to read herbrew or tell the different mean meanings lags of the greek verb la is not sufficient to answer the arguments of a mormon elder or shield sec marians from the shaft of sarcasm from liberal minded men who can see through the hollow pretenses of apostate Christia christianity sity THE PROJECT now is to form an establishment where young ministers will not be required to gives so much att attention edion to the classics as formerly but give more attention t to 0 those scientific and social questions which have arisen during the last fifty years in a w word rd it is an attempt to start a new which laying aside obsolete dogmas shall deal with the needs of modern society the city of lansing in the state of michigan is spoken of as the seat of this new university the rev dr kellogg admits that the two great grat forces arra against protestant sectarianism aie are the supposed antagonism of science and religion on the one liand handland land the literal I 1 interpretation 1 n terp of scripture as taught by the mormons cormons Mor mons on the other A large part art of his discourse on sunday evening ing was a plea for protestant unity and an interdenominational rule for the interpretation of the scriptures here tuen then ais is a tacit admission that these so called christian sects have not the requisite authority to interpret the bible much less to t receive revelation from god but while the sects are losing their hold on the masses of the people the growth of formalism is marked and rapid congress may be termed the thermometer of Ameri american americal caa society what is fashionable there is soon fashionable elsewhere twenty tive live years ago the average congressman Coa gressman avent his hid sabbaths Sab baths how bow and where he T pleased e a led but now this to is all changed A at t the present day he must be the devotee of some religion favorable to his bis constituents congressmen crane collins colling lawler oneil and lynce lynch attend the catholic church most of the others are members of protestant denominations and though they may spend a portion of each sabbath in exercising their favorite trotters yet they are generally found in their pews at the hour of religious service no doubt there was considerable demurring at this arrangement at first forit for it involved A DOUBLE TAX of renting a pew in washington and supporting a church at home but there was no help for it they must either do this or r give up their positions among the leading men who thus serve their country may maybe be mentioned senator reagan and representatives mcmillan owen allen alien rowell finley brown J R richardson laffoon mansur mccreary and senator voorhees who are re regular lar attendants at the gartle garfield id agu memorial em orl al disciples church justices harlan and bradley senators fry gray gorman gor man and andrasco tasco congressmen cutcheon cheon baker farquhar weber burrows cameron butterworth anderson G A wilkins sabin and private secretary lamont lament attend the new york avenue presbyterian church senator saulsbury attends the methodist church senator beek beck goes to the unitarian church secretary whitney senator hiscock evarts and con gressmen n and cox have each rented pews at st johns episcopal church senator Stanford rents a pew at st johns church while his family occupy another at the metropolitan methodist senator gorman german chooses as his church the new york avenue presbyterian while his family are members of the vermont avenue disciples church justice field alexander bell the telephone man admiral taylor general gibson commodore whitney Se senator walthall mal maj or leidicker Leid icher general E D towns end admirl admiral porter general black admiral davis and general park are all regular attendants at the church of the epiphany the above list might be indefinitely extended and it if we compare it with the list of those who have taken an active part in the enacting of laws affecting utah we shall readily perceive the source from which such legislation hat has emanated in passing through the hurrying hurr yinK throng of the tumultuous city of chicago and the whirl and din of the mighty traffic and aad the rattling of wheels on the stony street one oae almost feels that t the a e dr dream eam of chicagoans may come true a million of population by the end of this decade they now claim eight hundred thousand yetchen yet when one wanders through the reside residence nee portions of the city and sees that f fully ally one fourth of the buildings are for rent hears bears the murmurs of discontent from the toilers boilers toi lers I 1 and perceives the distrust of capital he be cannot help feeling that the end is not yet from chicago we go to niagara falls and thence to new york J H W glenco ent nt may I 1 ath IM 1888 |