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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1902)
ii i H i- Y V vol. xvm, NO. XVI LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1902 ESTABLISHED IN 1886 LINCOLN AS A GITY OF CHURCHES Sixty Religious Organizations, With a Membership Approxi mating 12,000 and an Investment t of Over Half a Million, Represented in the City The religious sentiment is a natural attribute found In every human breast. The savage in the forest wilds, the. pagan in outlying lands, each has found It necessary to rear some fetich at whose feet he might worship. It might be a mere spiritual form, it might be a rude, carved idol of stone or wood. It was something. - Others . there are who worship thought, but the, religious sentiment Js its chief mark.1 Christians worship a living Christ, and the proofs its devotees have marshaled have been convincing enough to win over a great part of the world. Evan gelization is still in progress and the dream is fondly cherished that the coming centuries will see an entire globe under the sway of the religion of gentleness and love as exemplified by' the meek and lowly Nazarene. Lincoln is distinctly a city - of churches; iw municipalities' 6fher." size can boast of go many and such handsome edifices dedicated to the cause of religion. Civilization still pre sents many raw edges, and where population is dense ltsvlces are most Churches. Value. Membership. prominent. It may smack of Pharisa- FtoJtT. $40,000 600 ism; but it Is- nevertheless the truth East Lincoln"!""!". 6ooo 250 that Lincoln Is a cleaner city; morally JSSSSSLV.l 3S and offers more attractions to the Congregational 8. home-seeker than any of her neighbors. ply?noutn".:.'!!!:!!!!!ri8,'ooo 300 This is largely due to the overshadow- Vine Street"!!!!!!!!!! lo!ooo 250 Ing Influences of the churches and the Swedish-!!.!.!:'!!?:! l!500 substantial character'of Its people. German, "First""":: 4500 300 There are sixty religious organlza- zjjjnan Second yjjJSJ tlons in Lincoln. The Methodists lead Methodist i6! -"" " in point of numbers of churches, and t. Pau 70.000 800 Grace 20,ouo om membership, with the Congregational- Trinity 18,000 500 ists, Presbyterians and Lutherans In Bethel1"161 000 100 order. It is impossible to accurately Epworth"":::"::"": 2)500 150 state the membership of the Catholic African M I 'ooo 140 church, as under Its rules every one, Newman M. E."(coi!) l!ooo 50 infant and adult, who are baptized Is protterian-7 1X counted as belonging to the church. First .'. 40,000 670 Very nearly 12.000 of Lincoln's 45.000 ftS4 'ooo 170 people belong to some one church, and North "Llncoln'Mis" 3,'ooo 6eo,000 Is a moderate estimate of the curtti Mlss?oS MU" tooo mon1eyWVested!rHey:.Ludden "169- secretary of the. ministerial associa- kerman- 11000 300 tionrhas compiled for the Courier from German 'Evangelical 91500 240 his records the following statistical in- Swedish 10000 160 formation: Norwegian In Amer. 40 - - . kt s.fe-tJ.VSflwr- -.; ' '' X. t, 5 r xW. :. 7- 1 .- i sir-srv -- -i J? &3$?kr . Lt "--'X-is-.-ze " .'At: ..? -.'V.' :.'. l - r "3- - w i2 r iiv " - -v 5r s y - ' -- - "" - V . s . .. .AVi ' . ,-Xiv .. - jff- j4- nrtrAif 5T,i w r k.vss-nl ' - . fs , n - - " t fS'Yr&rr: :B' s . ,-t. vti WjftWKruS-Vii ',. . V - -..--;-- yI7T..1'I n X.a. jflBfKS.I-VAV -K' . i- . A 2.W- " ,il X - . -T:Tj--T -l-fif O.V. ju r -ys-'rIJKSlAiar-KS -.-!.-.; iUv" 7 .rs--?! th c-iiaus- ' i .. .. l 3 z w. w-ir. -"v -t. . . -"- i-tr. r- ir 5St7X rtW i:i!5?C.X-,rhf -- r-G . 150 Grace 10,000 Christian 3. First or Central 10.000 -East Lincoln 6.000 .Zlon (colored) 1,200 Roman Catholic 3. St. Theresa 45,000 German 1S.0U0 Bohemian 2,000 Reformed 2. St. Mark's 14,000 German Reformed... 2,000 Evangelical 3. Salem 2,500 South Lincoln 50) United Evangelical.. 6,000 Episcopal 2. Holy Trinity 30,000 North Lincoln Z.5t)0 Christian Science 2. First Church Second Church Other Churches 11. First Free Baptist... 7.000 Jewish Reformed 10,000 . Jewish Orthodox Free Will M. E. 1.500 Gospel Tabernacle... 1,200 Peoples' Ch., 80. Lin. 1.000 Seventh Day 'Adv.... 6,000 Advent Christian 1,500 Caldwell Memorial... United Brethren 6,000 , 125 All Souls (Unitarian) 25.000 360 Membersnlp of the Roman Catholic church Includes every baptized person. This splendid showing is the result of. bill a generation of evolution. It Is (Continued on Page Twelve. 500 350 100 100- 7S 140 60 f 50 400 100' 250 100 100 100 10O 75 75' we 109 ' , : ,r - Ipv- ;-H U- HhHHHHk'1 'sfQV9 rS:'" A VIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH - mHHHHSSHHEHB v - iHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIY- A GROUP OF. LINCOLN CHURCHES, .i - ji v