Show A LOVE FEAST AND ADDRESS profitable DAY AT THE METHODIST CHURCH mission sessions most interesting bishop cranston masterly lecture on modern missions sunday mornings bession 0 tho utah mission of the methodist church consisted of a lovo least held at 10 in the as follows congregation sang a hymn KOV blair lead in prayer sacrament was administered scripture reading by rev E mork many of the members bore their testimonies and spoke of the love and goodness of the lord jesus towards chec congregation sang a hymn and were dismissed at 11 a m to join in a regular session at which bishop cranston delivered a sermon on the bible answering some of quirica concerning the bible it the bible is of divine authority and intended tor the spiritual ment of all men why was 11 not made eo plain that everybody could readily understand it why is it that there aro so many different bishop cranston put forth the argument that it Is just as impossible for the thoughts of god concerning spiritual things to be put in writing as it tor a skilled lawyer to write a contract so that two or tareo courts would agree on the same interpretation of the meaning bishop cranston holds that it is impossible tor a man to read and understand the bible as other literary productions duct ions unless the holy spirit reveals it to him jesus even had to talk in parables in order that the people might understand him man can get the meaning of the bible unless he wants to and comes before god on bended knees with a open heart says bishop cranston god Is its author and man is its beneficiary give up the bible and what then there Is no voice of god the evening sermon was taken up entirely by bishop cranston who de li evered a very interesting address on modern missions he stated that heretofore the church had taken up but one collection tor both home missionary work and foreign missionary will be separated bishop cranston some of the things and conditions be saw visiting korea and china in the fall of 1898 he said that the majority of the people in korea and china are poor beyond all description the people here cannot understand what poverty Is until they it there in many of the cities the animals hat are killed for food are slaughtered on the main street and the blood is allowed to run wherever it chooses and the only scavengers in the city are hogs and dogs As there are no sewers all sewerage Is carried off down the streets iu palls if the father of an infant child becomes tired of it the child Is often thrown out into tho street and allowed to dio of hunger and cold after the child Is dead the dogs come and eat the child and leave the bones anywhere bishop cranston very ably described of the conditions in china how the marriages take place how the little infants suffer from having their feet bandaged to make them small and many other equally cruel things that are practiced now what Is to be dono with such people why carry the school and gospel to them the following Is the appointment of pastors for the coming year ogden samuel blair salt lake city B II 11 young lutt church D M helmick Helm lck waterloo and heath G V cook liberty park church S A wanless payson and quain T P cook provo circuit lewis thoele tooele and stockton S E me cager i brigham and north ogden J M ephraem and mound pleasant E 13 mork and I 1 hanson salt lake scandinavian C J heckner beaver and allford J S anderson corenne and Tre E eureka C W noble logan to be supplied murcer and ophir J M baan murray samuel allason All lson park City John murray |