Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-08-18
SUNDAY IN CHICAGO
Where Worlds Fair Visitors
Go to Worship.
NOTED DIvINEs CONDUCT SERVICES.

E"ssaS WI NV" W.
the City Pointed Out-The People Seem
to Prefer the Parks and Other Resorts
Oh Sunday to the Great Columbian Ex-
position.
WORLDS FAIR, Aug. Is. - Especial. -
The Columbian Exposition is indeed u
upon II in time. In truth, I think that
the more marvellous Il thing is the sooner
it tires II if he takes it too seriously Mt
the start. 1t is after t." first long look and
q good rest that h. mes with renewed
zest and fully appreciates the wonder.
Instance Niagara Falls, Yosemite, Rome,
Paris and the Alps. Be that as it may,
the fact is that l suddenly grew tired of
the Worlds fair and concluded to see Chi
cage for awhile.
And the one prominent fact is that all
the big shows of the White City have not
made a particle of difference in the public
resorts of Chicago any day in the week.
All the leading theaters are running full
and some new ones are open. All the
public resorts are thronged. Lincoln
park, Garfield park and other places have
even larger crowds on Saturday and Sun
day than before, all the boating and other
riding institutions do their usual business
and on the very Saturday that the fair
presented unusual attractions in the way
of music and titled visitors the excursion
steamers carried $4,000 people to Milwar-
kee Mt 81 for the round trip, the largest
number so far On record.
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Baptist church. the peoples church as it
We're, l thought it but fair To .cCrca5e for
a Sunday afternoon at Lincoln park, bnt
changed my mind when | saw the street
cars. To merely call them full would be
jammed. People hung ca every strap and
Rugged each other in clinying on to the
steps, they loaded the roofs, they bulged
out at the windows. And at that very
hour one could have had whole seat to
himself on any car running to the White
City. Having made Il great disturbance
about it and gained the Sunday opening.
the people, having gratifcd their essential
c%ussedness, as it were, go somewhere else.
Another important fact, and a very
gratifying che to visitors, is that all the
preachers have stayed Mt home this sum-
mer. So far as l can learn by u diligent
inquiry there is not a regular pastor out
of town except temporarily for sickness or
other reason, and the visitor who remains
over Sunday can hear any one of several
noted pulpit orators, Evangelist Moody
included. I began with the Second Bap-
fist for many reasons. 1t is in many re-
spects the historic church of Chicago.
Located on Monroe street, not far west of
the river, it escaped the great fire and the
old part of the structure stands as it did
when Chicago was comparatively a will.
age. 1t will seat 1,7S9 people and at the
morning service was just comfortably
full, but on both the last Sunday evenings
it held not less than 1900 people.
1t is commonly called the Peoples
church. The congregation is composed of
jewellers in every part Of the city and the
church has made a great record in contri-
buttons for benevolence and education. It
has long pursued the so-called European
system, that is, it is open every night in
the week and most of every day and all
day on Sunday, having three Sunday
schools in succession, the last one devoted
principally to the Chinese. The pastor,
DR.. William NJ. Lawrence, made a record
in Philadelphia during the Centennial
and came here a few years later. Incl
dentally I may add that in q converse
ton I had with him he informed me that,
according to the records of his church in
Philadelphia, that city did not fully re-
cover from the Centennial till the boom
of 1880, so large a drift of helpless hui
manity did it leave there. l suppose,
however, that the pastor of a congrega-
ton noted for it's b~enevolence would be
troubled by appeals for aid long after
other people had ceased to notice them.
BY the recent completion of Il new one
the number of regular Baptist churches
in Chicago is brought up TO thirty-seven,
and every minister having a regular
charge is hard at work except DR.. o. P.
Clifford Of the Emanuel, who is absent on
account of sickness. DR.. p. S.. Henson of
the First Baptist also attracts large con-
.gregations during the fair, in fact, mostof
the time. Ch%autauqua knows him we'll
and SO do many other educational organ
~izations, as he is a popular lecturer.
Among the Episcopalian visitors there
seems to be a great pressure to get into
Grace church and hear the eminent DR..
Locke and his somewhat famous boy
choir. English visitors say this is such a
very 'high church" establishment that
the Archbishop Of Canterbury would feel
eufdlIeueu III IL. 4uo UOy cuO1C lS SalO
to be second to none in this country.
Epiphany, DR.. Morrison in charge, ID
also a very noted Episcopal church, its So
cial relations embracing not only many Of
this city's leaders but those of other
places. Another historic church is the
Second Presbyterian which recently cele-
brated its fifty-frst year, the pastor, DR..
Simon j. Mcpherson, being assisted by
DR.. Robert w. Patterson and Dr.. j.
Monroe Gibson, who were the first and
second pastors. These three have served
during the entire life of the church and
it is very remarkable indeed that so old a
church should witness q reunion of all its
pastors. DR.. Gibson preached the sermon
and found a prophecy Of the Worlds fair
in that passage Of Isaiah beginning: "And
in this mountain shall the Lord Of Hosts
make unto the people a feast, etc." The
most noted Presbyterian in the city, If I
may go by what I hear, is DR.. j. H. Bar.
rows Of the First, though DR.. Withrow of
the Third, and DR.. Hall Of the Fourth at
tract many Of the fairs visitors.
The Congregationalists rank very high
in Chicago and many Of the wealthy and
prominent men Of the city are members of
the Plymouth, DIR. Gunsaulus, pastor,
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