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Show 10 <br> THE CHURCH REVIEW. <br><br> The Church Review. <br> Published weekly, in the interest of Christian work in Salt Lake City, and with the cooperation of the Methodist Episcopal, Congregational Presbyterian, Baptist and Christian denominations, and the Y. M. C. A., W. C. T. U. and Rescue Mission societies. <br> Subscription price - - - $1 per year <br> Entered at the Salt Lake City post office as second-class matter. <br> O. S. BOWMAN, - Editor and Publisher <br> Rooms 1 and 2 Wasatch Block <br><br> THE condition of affairs in Armenia and the persistence of the Turkish persecutions of the Christians of that country justify the general impression among all civilized people that the Turk is the most incorrigible specimen of barbarian that now infests the earth. By nature and ancestry none too good, his social and religious institutions have developed him into an inhuman human being absolutely revolting to more civilized man. The present brutal persecution of the Armenian Christians for no apparent reason would do credit to the blackest epoch in the Dark Ages and ought to convince the civilized powers that Turkey as a nation is a blot upon the face of the earth which they are justified in removing. <br><br> PERHAPS no one subject is at present receiving greater attention from the religious press of the country than that of the "Higher Criticism." There is much criticism, of the higher critics, as they are called, some of it merited, but more of it unmerited. If the critics would compare some of the popular belief of today with those of one hundred years ago along many lines they would see greater changes that have almost unconsciously occurred than the higher criticism will ever bring about. Many old opinions and scriptural interpretations, which required more credulity than faith to accept and which were due to ignorance, have passed away, and still more of them must pass. The fault is not with the scriptural truth but with the interpretations which superstition and ignorance have given to it. Gold loses none of its purity by going through the fire, and the great fundamental truths of Christianity, and the circumstances incident upon their gift to humanity, will gain more than will be lost by careful study in the light of reason. And in the end those beliefs which will have vanished from the popular mind because of the higher criticism will be those which can best be spared. <br><br> WE are pleased to note the organization, on last Friday evening, of the "Salt Lake City Epworth League Union," with a very strong corps of officers. But one fault can be found with this organization-it is about two years younger than it ought to be. Since the young people's societies of the city are well organized into unions, there is an opportunity for fuller cooperation and more hearty federation than there has been in the past, and every one would be glad to see the opportunity improved. <br><br> FOURTEEN "lynchings" in a single southern state in six months time is a record which should cause much serious thought in the north. It is hard to believe that all the atrocious crimes charged to the negro of the south have been committed, but if the charge is true then a terrible state of affairs must prevail, and the condition of the freedmen, socially, morally and intellectually, must be worse than it was before they were liberated. And if that is true then the people of the south who too often have deprived them of the educational advantages to which they are entitled, are guilty, not only of a great crime, but a greater blunder, for in thus brutalizing the negro they are bringing upon themselves a scourge a thousand times more terrible than any humiliation they might experience from seeing the negro in the intelligent exercise of his natural political rights. And the citizens of the north are in duty bound to see that the citizens of the south, even though they have the misfortune to be black, are not, through a brutal policy of degradation, cheated of their rights. <br><br> "A GRAND bicycle road race," under the auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association, is among the possibilities of the near future. In itself there may be no harm in a bicycle road race, but we understand that in this instance two riders of note will meet and that a large amount of money will be placed by their friends upon the result, making it an occasion for unlimited gambling. If this is true the race should not be under the direction of the Young Men's Christian Association, for an organization of character cannot afford to do anything which will tend to excited the baser tendencies in men's minds-and gambling is one of the most harmful and debasing tendencies imaginable. <br><br> THE Dallas ministers have passed resolutions condemning the Corbett-Fitz simmons mill that is to come off in that city. This is an auspicious event for the mill. <br> The above weighty editorial, which appeared in one of our morning papers recently, is a specimen of the treatment which the secular press accords the efforts made by decency against some of the popular forms of brutality. <br><br> FOLLOWING is a sample of the letters which are being constantly received at the REVIEW office, and which show that the efforts and<br><br> |
