The Organization of the Ecclesiastical Institutions of a Metropolitan Community |
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Abraham Lincoln Center activities adult Bible class annual conferences Annual Report average attendance belief bishops body Bohemian boys cago Catholic centralized charitable institutions Chicago Industrial School Christ Christian Endeavor Church in Chicago City Missionary Society Club co-operation committee composed Congregational Church Cook County Sunday councils County Sunday School Deaconess delegates democratic denominations diocese Directory district ecclesiastical and non-ecclesiastical ecclesiastical institutions ecclesiastical organizations ecclesiastical structure elected Epworth League Evangelical Association fellowship foreigners German Hospital House Illinois Institutional Church integration interest Jewish Charities laborers Luther League meets annually membership ment Metho Methodist Episcopal Church methods ministers Mission Northern Baptist Convention officers organiza paid helpers parish pastor Point Schools Presbyterian Church presiding elders religious Salvation Army settlement Seventh Day Baptist social spiritual Sunday School Association Sunday School Convention Synod tion Training School Union of Chicago UNITED EVANGELICAL Volunteers of America women Young Men's Young People's Alliance young people's societies
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Page 30 - God hath made of one blood all nations of men, and we are his children, brothers and sisters all. We are citizens of these United States, and we believe our flag stands for self-sacrifice for the good of all the people. We want, therefore, to be true citizens of our great city, and we will show our love for her by our works.
Page 12 - To form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour. SECOND.— To encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy and science. THIRD. — To investigate the unexplained laws of nature and the powers latent in man.
Page 30 - Chicago does not ask us to die for her welfare; she asks us to live for her, and so to live and so to act that her government may be pure, her officers honest, and every corner of her territory shall be a place fit to grow the best men and women who shall rule over her.
Page 38 - Questions as to the legality of such arrangement brought the matter into court ; and during the trial it transpired that about seventy-three girls who were committed to the Chicago Industrial School for Girls by the county court were already in the House of the Good Shepherd and the St. Joseph Orphan Asylum at the time of such commitments. " In other words, being already inmates of the institutions, they were taken to the county court and adjudged to be dependent girls, and at once returned to those...
Page 28 - To provide a center for a higher civic and social life; to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago.
Page 38 - Where public officials alone have the right to commit dependents to the subsidized institutions, a check is put upon reckless admissions. But even under this system there is danger that many will be charged to the public who would never have sought admission to a public institution. In Illinois the constitution forbids public grants to sectarian institutions ; but a law was framed providing that a county court might adjudge a girl to be a dependent, commit her to an industrial school, and that school...
Page 16 - This Church recognizes and adheres to Episcopacy, not as of divine right, but as a very ancient and desirable form of church polity.
Page 38 - ... besides an allowance for clothing. After the passage of this act the Chicago Industrial School for Girls was incorporated. Of the nine incorporators and directors, seven were officers and managers of the House of the Good Shepherd ; and all the girls committed under the act to the Chicago Industrial School for Girls were placed either in the House of the Goixl Shepherd or in St.
Page 50 - Baptist young people ; their increased spirituality ; their stimulation in Christian service; their edification in Scripture knowledge; their instruction in Baptist doctrine and history; and their enlistment in all missionary activity through existing denominational organizations.
Page 12 - ... Theosophical Society are: (i) To form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste, or colour. (ii) To encourage the study of comparative religion, philosophy and science. (iii) To investigate unexplained laws of Nature, and the powers latent in man. 3. The Theosophical Society has no concern with politics, caste rules and social observances. It is unsectarian, and demands no assent to any formula of belief as a qualification of membership....