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Show THE CHURCH REVIEW. <br><br> PEOPLE'S GOSPEL MISSION. <br> The entertainment Tuesday night, was a pleasant affair. The volunteers from the Y. P. C. E., of the First Congregational and the First Presbyterian churches made it possible for all to feel happy. <br> Tuesday, in company with Bro. Ritchie, I went to Sandy to assist in the funeral services of Walter Wells, who died the 23d of this month. It was about six weeks ago that we laid to rest his mother, who had given her life for him. <br> The large attendance at the funeral attest the loving regard and depth of sympathy of the community. They sleep side by side in the city of the dead, and father and children mourn for them, not as these who mourn without hope, but with the blessed assurance of the resurrection of the dead unto life eternal to those who sleep in the Lord. <br> Mrs. Wells was a member of the Congregational church, of Sandy, for several years before her death, and Walter was converted in a special meeting held by Bro. Bartlett a short time before his sickness. <br> Our open air service, with the lantern is doing good work, but we do need a few singers. <br> The W. C. T. U. are reminded that, Thursday night is temperance night at the Mission in the future, and it is hoped that they may take an active part in the same. J. B. L. <br> Salt Lake City. <br><br> Of Interest to the Ladies. <br> The Central Ladies Aid Society of the Central Christian church, will, on Friday and Saturday, April 5th and 6th have a sale of aprons, bonnets and hats. Sale begins promptly at 4 p. m. of each day. These aprons are just what every house-keeper needs. The hats and bonnets are neat and cheap and meet a long felt want. Be sure to come and see these goods. An excellent luncheon will be served on Friday April 5th from 6 to 8 p. m. Price 25 cents. All will be in the parlors of the church, corner 3rd East and 4th South streets. The gentlemen can buy a bonnet, apron or lunch as suits their fancy. <br> Salt Lake City <br><br> Have you been to London. <br> The following reference is made to Mr. Mucklow's lecture on Mighty London last Monday night in Kansas City: <br> "The illustrated lecture on London last night, by Mr. W. B. Mucklow, of New York, at the First Congregational church, was well attended and proved to be unusually pleasing and instructive. The lecturer is thoroughly familiar with London, having spent some nine years there in the study and practice of law. A thoroughly English spirit pervaded the lecture." -Kansas City Star. <br> Remember that 120 pictures of London will be shown by means of a powerful lime light stereopticon making it seem indeed like a visit to the mighty city. Tickets twenty-five cents, for sale at Parsons' and Savage's. <br> Salt Lake City. <br> "The Bible has been translated as a whole into 13 African languages and dialects, and the New Testament and portions of the Bible into various others, making a total of 66 languages for scripture uses." <br> "The American Board of Missions established the first efficient printing press in the Turkish Empire, from which has issued 500,000,000 pages in the Arabic language, of which many millions have been pages of God's word." <br> "The Unitarians and Friends have decided to receive no more government aid for their mission schools among the Indians. There remain now only two religious bodies receiving such aid, and there is great hope that they will withdraw." <br> "The contributions to missions from the old south church, Boston, amounted last year to $16,257. Of this $7,500 went to foreign missions, $3,900 to home missions, and $4,887 to city missions. This church recently celebrated its 225th anniversary." <br> "Just how much the Armenians care for religion and education and what sacrifices they are ready to make to secure these, may be seen from the fact that the Armenian Protestants in Turkey raised $37,000 last year for the support of their churches and schools. And this is the people the Turks are trying to stamp out." <br> The American Friend- "We look back on earlier ages and call them barbaric; we talk of our Christian civilization as though we had attained to lofty heights. In the very front of our most beautiful picture is a blotch that we cannot cover up, and which spoils the effect of all our accomplishments. No thinking person can believe that the saloon has any proper place in the Christian civilization of the last ten years of the nineteenth century. It will seem to our posterity that reads of its demoniac power, like a gigantic Tamerlane, heaping up from year to year its pyramid of skulls. The Nazarene has conquered many enemies of the human race. He has faced no greater than this one, but he will again conquer. It would certainly seem that the monster which devours our children apace for six days in each week might allow the home and the church its one day of quiet rest and holy calm, without defiling the air with its breach of temptation and without dehumanizing those who were made to be Sons of God." <br><br> |
