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Show Page 1<br><br>WESTMINSTER COLLEGE LIBRARY The Church Review.<br> HISTORICAL EDITION.<br> VOL. 4, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, DECEMBER 29, 1895. No. 1.<br><br> PROEM.<br><br> "When the Son of Man cometh shall he find faith on the earth?" Hydra-headed Error crept into Eden; into Europe; crossed the ocean with the seekers for freedom; multiplied in America; is seen in every land wherever man is found," even in Utah. Truth is opposed to Error as is darkness to light, whether it be willful wrong or unconscious mistake, and wrong never rights itself. The Church, represented by various branches, is here as "Truth forever on the scaffold," If necessary, the servant of all doing the will of God from the heart, speaking in truth, in love." Never has any agency of earth aside from the Gospel of Christ been able to lift the human family to such heights in the domain of right, whether of science, of art, of literature, of politics, or of ethics, as the race now enjoys. The barbaric splendor of Greece was the embodiment of muscular and material progress; the aesthetic oratory of Rome was the product of majestic minds that could conceive of no glory greater than that of this world. The later force of Christianity rules a world greater than Greece's most potent King ever dreamed of-the one perhaps for which Alexander wept in ignorance-one of increasing splendor, such as the haughtiest Caesar never imagined. This all-conquering force which has "Go ye into all the world" as General Order No. 1., came accordingly into the fertile valleys of this mountain-walled garden, and from the mast-head of the cross floats the banner of King Emmanuel. The work of the Church will never be tabulated in this world-like the unseen forces of the air, "it bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof but canst not tell whither it goeth." The five denominations herein represented are really one quintuple agency with back to the past-facing sin, the common enemy of the race. Their beginning is the open grave of the risen Savior-their purpose the conquest of the world "in his name"-their ultimate hope, heaven.<br><br> PREFACE.<br><br> In 1847 there came to the valleys of Utah's rugged but beautiful mountains a band of weary wanderers, whose leader, Brigham Young, had guided them from the Mississippi across the wilderness of wild prairie, wild animal, wild Indian. From that nucleus of one hundred and forty-seven souls has grown the teeming thousands of today. The Territory, then a portion of Mexico, is now one of the States of the mighty Union. Every people has a religion. These had theirs, having imbibed the teachings of Joseph Smith and were known as Mormons, or Latter-day Saints. Except from births the increase of Mormonism has been from immigration chiefly, the converts in the main coming from Scandinavia and Great Britain. In the past few years many have come from the Southern States of the Union. The church has missionaries in every civilized land, and in the islands of the seas, circling the globe and extending from Iceland to New Zealand, with a branch in Palestine organized in 1886. The presidents in succession have been four-Joseph Smith from the organization, April 6, 1830, until his death by violence in 1844; Brigham Young, 1844-1877; John Taylor, 1877-1887; Wilford Woodruff, 1887, to date. No attempt was made to introduce any other form of religious faith into Utah until 1864, when Norman McLeod, a Congregational minister, was transferred from Denver to Salt Lake. In 1865 the Holy See placed Utah under the jurisdiction of Rev. E. O'Connell, Bishop of Marysvale, California, and Father Kelly began the work of the Roman Catholic Church here in the following year. Other denominations followed later, as will be seen by the following pages, until today Christian services are weekly held in the following tongues: American, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic, representing the Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopal Evangelical Lutheran, English, Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian and German, Methodist Episcopal, Free Methodist, Congregational, Baptist, Presbyterian and Disciples of Christ, Most of these are well churched, and their property represents millions and is scattered from Cannon on the Idaho line to St. George, in the region of the cotton and the fig, in barren camps and the granite peaks, down to the fertile plains and sedgy shores of our rippling rivers and limpid lakes. <br><br>ROSTER OF MINISTERS NOW EMPLOYED IN UTAH.<br><br>Adams, S. G., Baptist, Salt Lake City.<br> Arnold, F. L., Presbyterian, Salt Lake City.<br> Arveson, O., Methodist Episcopal, Provo.<br> Andrews, J. C., Baptist, Provo.<br> Bascom, N., Methodist Episcopal, Logan.<br> Bartlett, D. W., Congregational, Salt Lake.<br> Beans, W. K., Methodist Episcopal, Salt Lake.<br> Blohm, F. W., Presbyterian, Pleasant Grove.<br> Bohbeck, P., Presbyterian, Hyrum.<br> Bradley, F. J., Methodist Episcopal, Heber.<br> Brown, C. T., Congregational, Salt Lake.<br> Campbell, W. R., Presbyterian, Mendon. Cason, R., African M. E., Salt Lake.<br> Cates, Samuel, Methodist Episcopal, Ogden.<br> Clay, B. F., Christian, Salt Lake.<br> Clemenson, Presbyterian, Logan.<br> Collins, T. J., Baptist, Salt Lake.<br> Crandall, T. L., Baptist, Ogden.<br> De La Mater, C. E., Methodist Episcopal, Eureka.<br> Ellefson, P. M., Methodist Episcopal, Ephraim.<br> Gillespie, S. L., Presbyterian, Box Elder.<br> Gillilan, J. D., Methodist Episcopal, Salt Lake.<br> Hardy, G. M., Presbyterian, St. George.<br> Hawkes, W. S., Congregational, Salt Lake. <br>Hermans, F., Methodist Episcopal, Salt Lake.<br> Hooper, S., Methodist Episcopal, Murray.<br> Hooper, T. J., Methodist Episcopal, Tooele.<br> Hough, W. A., Presbyterian, Salt Lake.<br> Hunt, E. G., Methodist Episcopal, Salt Lake.<br> Hunt, W. S., Congregational, Park City.<br> Iliff, T. C., Methodist Episcopal, Salt Lake.<br> Jayne, G. E., Methodist Episcopal, Salt Lake.<br> Jeffrey, G. M., Methodist Episcopal, Ogden.<br> Knox, E. M., Presbyterian, Kaysville.<br> Lee, Theo., Presbyterian, Spanish Fork.<br> Leverett, T. L., Presbyterian, Cedar City.<br> Luck, C. W., Congregational, Ogden.<br> Martin, G. W., Presbyterian, Manti.<br> Mead, M. H., Congregational, Provo.<br> Meteer, J. H., Presbyterian, Richfield.<br> Miller, G. P., Methodist Episcopal, Monroe. Mork, E. E., Methodist Episcopal, Box Elder.<br> Murphy, W., Methodist Episcopal, Payson.<br> McClain, J., Presbyterian, Salt Lake.<br> McCoard, C., Methodist Episcopal, Mount Pleasant.<br> McCreery, H. H., Presbyterian, Mt. Pleasant.<br> McNiece, R. G., Presbyterian, Salt Lake.<br> Nutting, J. D., Congregational, Salt Lake.<br> Perry, G. H., Congregational<br> Lynne. Rich, G. W., Methodist Episcopal, Park City.<br> Richardson, C. F., Presbyterian, Ogden.<br> Ritchie, Geo., Congregational, Salt Lake.<br> |
