Show MISSIONS AND MISSION WORK THE STANDARD no intelligent or minded man but will concede thai the work of tho mission in the low artera and slums of our beat towns and cities has been and abow Is one of the grandest and most work ever conceived by a noble and belf sacrificing mind no one unless utterly blind or obtuse can but recognize and appreciate a work alose aim and object ia to lift men and women out of the mire and filth into which their lives have been led and guide choir footsteps on to firmer ground this noble and practical altruism has been lavishly held out in mission and quite a few of those pitiable physical and moral wrecks through the spirit of truth have had the foul vapor lifted from before their and been enabled to get a square look at themselves and surroundings but the writers object in presenting this article to THE and to the thinking minds of ogden ia not only to draw attention to tha great goad being accomplished but to point out in a kindly spirit a few errors which doe and retard tho advancement of converts in the mission tho ogden mission founded by the rev frank forbes late of this city was intended by him a lie many timea to bo absolutely nonsectarian non sectarian free enough and broad to embrace all religions and as long as that gentleman biad the voice the mission was conducted on those principles for bome time past the mission has been under the control of J B lister a gentleman thoroughly in carn cat and without doubt deeply consecrated to his work all who have admired his untiring zeal and felt the warm clasp of hie hand will affirm ills methods in converting tho sinner are much the bamo as seen in tho old lime methodist revival with the doc trino holiness or inter lion EO cabled added of many missions and the salvation army also this latter clause is their foundation principle but under the words lio liness and which ought to suggest not only purity and self abrogation but a broad and lofty progression as well ie hid in iron bround creed narrow prejudiced and hidebound hide bound a living fossil of our puritan fathers a creed that alter rescuing res cuine the lost one is diametrically opposed to true intellectual and spiritual advancement and yet their leaders ve have no creed wo are absolutely undenominational wo preach jesus christ and nothing else granted that you preach jesus christ but it is your conception i clorist Cl irist which he might find very hard to recognize as bis if ho again that makes your creed and ono to bear the method of appealing to the emotional baturo of ono cunk in degradation and fin is doubtless tho best that could bo devised reason and philosophy would certainly bo thrown away on eccli as these therefore the radical somewhat fan means put in force are to be commended rather than dis courage d the method used toward converts in subsequent months after conversion Is to the thoughtful man very objectionable space will not permit of but a brief on this point tho new convert is taken in hand after going through what is called process and if he proves to bo clothed and in his right mind in a few days he is candidates candi dated for entire alon which is interpreted to mean that eliat he gives ins life and all ho ees to god and hia service for which in return god or christ enables him to live absolutely without sin all the ein and error of hie past is instantaneously swept away all the base passions killed with no likelihood of a resurrection the recipient immediately proclaims ilia freedom from all ein and his perfection before god tho newly perfected one ie taken under the wing of his older brethren and carefully instructed as to his future course in life conscientiously warned to leave requiring thought argument or investigation severely alone if lie ebona symptoms of a likins for science tho inclination ie suppressed without lose of time for science and the devil are with most of choir teachers tea chera they have been heard to brother is of man and men are mostly infidels its of alie devil brother and will lead you betray A brother rises in to testify hie docs out in to god tor hie transformation out of darkness into light hia nature ie of that refined sensitive order that rovella the poet out of the falness of hia heart a happy quotation from a familiar poet rises to his lips but before the words are well out ho 1 called to order by the leader one ot the iron rulea lias been broken brother poetry ie not allowed here you roust confine yourself strictly on scriptural lines weeley and watts hymns barve the beet pur pose here and the sita down in hurt silence mil ton or perhaps longfellow though crushed back aro still to find voice but it he to be recognized as one 0 the elect he must submit to be whipped back into the traces he may bo arid often id infinitely eu in spiritual perception alian his leader but what of that sometimes brother eliat corresponds somewhat to atio J L cullivan Kul livan type has been known to suddenly resurrect ono of his old time companions and with its assistance give the leader a sound tongue la the forca is no fancy sketch true ae seen and heard by the writer many dimce in the missions of a nia the tendency of tills doctrine of holiness as described is to captivate the emotional nature implant a blind faith in the heart but non intelligent up a boundless egotism often mis called spiritual pride for no such emanation ever came from the spirit the thought of beina perfect day by day before god and man placed before an ignorant mind will nearly always develop the boldest egotism especially la it s where the perfection runs in ably narrow groove it stultifies the intellect o 0 no encouragement is given to bought or scientific investigation but ceaseless opposition and discouragement coura gement instead again when the lines are drawn and the stakes beet as as they are in this creed the tread is toward intellectual and spiritual inertia and retrogression will toon appear it it be an active eveking soul it is the retribution of the plant newly sprung from the ground that claims to ba the mighty oak one can blut this may be an admirable method to pursue with beginners and to the very ignorant but to alio that after righteousness and truth it ie advisable to seek broader fields for god hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind A W WELLS |