Church Review/Vol. 3/No. 13

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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-place matter. <br> O. S. BOWMAN. - Editor and Publisher <br> Rooms 1 and 2 Wasatch Block <br><br> The Ministerial Association, composed of the evangelical ministers of the city, meets every Monday morning at 10:30 in the Y. M. C. A. rooms. All ministers visiting in the city are cordially invited to a seat among us to hear and share in our deliberations. JOSIAH McCLAIN, Pres. <br> J.D. GILLILAN, Sec. <br> Salt Lake City. <br><br> THE goal of the Christian church during the coming century should be, and we are assured it will be, the complete conquest of the world for Christ. Anything that retards that achievement is hostile to the spirit and wish of the Master. The adamantine obstacle to this undertaking is unbelief; but there is something within the church itself which if not an obstacle is a deep hindrance to this glorious mission. It is the spirit of exclusiveness, of sect, of schism. How can the Savior's purpose for the evangelization of the world be realized while his prayer for the unification of his own church is unanswered? That fervent petition addressed to the throne of the Father is addressed in realty to us, for how can God himself answer that request of his best beloved if those in whose behalf it was made are filled with the spirit of sect and division. Such men are thwarting God's purpose and the Savior's wish and upon them rests an odium which only divine compassion can overlook. Other forces are working, however, and with multiplying power in behalf of the practical unity. If not the exact unification of the Christian church. Across the seas no man is exerting a mightier influence in this direction than Dr. Henry S. Lunn, editor of The Review of the churches and promoter of the Grindenwald Conference, the object of which is to advance Christian unity. Every summer Dr. Lunn leads a crusade of several hundred Christian ministers to Grindenwald, Switzerland, and they plan and pray for this blessed consummation. He has just completed a quick tour of this continent, during which he has sought to kindle the spirit of interdenominational intercourse. But this visit was scarcely necessary. At least it is safe to say that sectarian rancor is less prevalent in America than in any part of the Christian world. As long as such men as Boardman, and Barrows, and Cuyler, and Storrs, and Vincent, and Huntington stand as the representative men of their respective denominations sectarian conceit will stay in the background. Three agencies are now doing conspicuous service toward breaking down the walls of partition which have long divided Christians, One is the non-sectarian training schools for Christian workers and the summer Chautauquas; another is the interdenominational societies, interdenominational journalism, the best examples of which are The British Weekly, the New York Independent, The Sunday School Times, and The Gulden Rule.-The Ram's Horn. <br><br> Let your light shine in the community where you live and in the community where you dwell. Be a lighthouse for everybody around you. Be a city on an hill to attract people who are cold and hungry and tired for the love of God. Be something that will warm aching hearts; something that will cheer hopeless lives. Do not try to see how much you can get and how little you can co, but consider that day lost on which you have not done something to make some heart glad that you have lived. Be a Bible Christian, a prayer meeting Christian, a Christ like Christian, and then you will shine for God wherever you go. You may not be able to dazzle the world into admiration pf your gifts, but you can live so as to be a continual guide board pointing toward the city of God. Instead of being a stumbling block for others to fall over, you can be a light saying to all the little world in which God has made you a sun "Follow me, and I will lead you toward the land of rest." Let it be known in the community where you live that your house is built on the Rock. And thank God there are so many people here and there all over the land who do this; people who are the light of the world and the salt of the earth. To know them is a standing admonition to be true and good. There is nothing unsteady about the beams of their light. You can safely count upon always finding them upon God's side of every question. Their wives and children know that they have religion, and even their horses and cattle find it out. There is no uncertainty about their testimony, whether in church or out. -Selected. <br><br> "Dr. William R. Harper, president of the University of Chicago, entered Muskingum College at the age of ten, and was graduated at fourteen. Then he went to Yale, and was only nineteen when he received his Ph. D. from that college. Dr. Harper is now thirty-nine. The University of which he is the head has an endowment of $4,000,000, and has $600,000 to spend this year. <br><br> Christ is still reaching out a helping hand to those who are down. <br><br>