Church Review/Vol. 3/No. 17

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THE CHURCH REVIEW. <br><br> Epworth League Dep't, <br> FIRST M. E. <br> The League will be led this evening by Mrs. A. B. Greason, the topic being, "The Three Friends." Job 2: 11-13. <br> Beginning with April 7th, the League has been studying the book of Job. In the first lesson Job was bereft of all his earthly possessions, including his six sons and three daughters. In the second lesson, he was stricken by a loathsome disease and was advised by his wife to curse God and die, but Job had too much faith in God to harken to any such advice. <br> In the third lesson, our lesson for this evening, his three friends Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar, came to sympathize with him. But their coming was really the sorest trial of all. Job might have supposed that the world would misinterpret his misfortunes, but he had a right to expect better of his friends. <br> How long after the attack of the leprosy till the coming of the three friends we can only surmise. Time must have elapsed at least for the news to travel and to permit the emaciation which made Job almost unrecognizable by his friends to ensue. <br> Probably months had passed in which kinsfolk, one by one, shrank from him and friends deserted him. It is to the credit of these friends that they remained true. That they were really friends of Job is attested by the fact that on learning of his new trouble they hastened to him. The trouble of friends should cause us to hurry to them and succor them. <br> There is a delicate sympathy expressed in the conduct of the friends. These orientals were decorous as well as genuine and heartfelt in their grief and they sat silent with him for seven days. They began well, but it would have helped their reputation had they gone home at the end of the week without a word. It should be noted that it is still a point of decorum among the Hebrews, and dictated by a true feeling, never to speak of trouble to a friend until in some way the sorrowing-one has expressed a willingness to be condoled with. <br> Sympathy is often best shown by silence, for there is no sympathy in an argument. <br><br> This evening our meeting will be held in the Sunday school room. If every member of the League will come and bring a friend with him. we will have the most interesting and profitable meeting. <br> At the cabinet meeting last Tuesday evening, it was decided that on the first Monday evening in every month, there shall be a general business meeting, to which all members of the League are requested to be present, after which there will be a short social. <br> And by the way, if some of the suggestions that were made at the cabinet meeting are carried out, the League may expect a grand revival of activity along all the lines of its work. <br> Last Tuesday evening Miss Nellie Thompson, one of our younger members, left Salt Lake for her old home in Lincoln Neb. We are all very sorry to have her leave us and our best wishes for her future welfare and happiness go with her. <br><br> Junior League. <br> Come to the Junior League this afternoon at three o'clock. There were sixteen present last Sunday and three new members. Both good for such a rainy afternoon. All are working hard to bring our membership up to one hundred by the first of June. Come and encourage the "Willing Helpers." We need you. Come and we will find something for you to do. Miss West will bo with us this afternoon. <br> There will be fifteen minutes song service preceding each meeting hereafter. Come early and join in the singing. <br> Salt Lake City. <br><br> Iliff League Notes. <br> The dollar social, to be held at the residence of Mr. F. A. Grant, north east corner of third and S. streets, next Friday evening premises to be a most pronounced success. The members of the League and any others who desire are to pay a dollar, which sum is to be earned in some way out of the usual. Many unique plans have been adopted, and when each one relates how he raised the amount much amusement is anticipated. <br> It is not designed to bar anyone out who is not regularly employed or who is too busy or too lazy to earn an extra dollar, and those will only have to pay one-tenth fare- one dime. Refreshments, together with an interesting literary and musical program, will repay any who may desire to attend. Everybody cordially invited. <br> MRS. KAVANAUGH, Chairman. <br><br> Did you notice that all of the twenty-one singers in the choir Sunday morning were Epworth Leaguers? Did you see that large beautiful array of calla lillys Sunday morning? A present from our faithful Leaguer, Mrs. Lincoln who is in California. <br> Here is some of our roll of honor Epworth Herald subscribers: E. G. Hunt, Chas. Peak, L. Loofbourow, T. Snelson, C. W. Morse, W. N. Grant, Miss M. Holt, Mrs. Rathbone, Mrs. Kavanagh, Laura Wood. Can we not have five more new subscribers; only eighty cents each. <br> Salt Lake City. <br><br>