Sketch of the Pueblos and Pueblo County, ColoradoIllustratedPublished by the Board of Trade . stor. Cumberland Presbyterian Church, South Pueblo. E. Long, pastor. Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church, F. Lagerman,pastor. A Baptist church (colored) just organized. By the side of the churches, and to complete their instruc-tion to all classes, there have been organized not less than 25Sunday schools, whose ever increasing numbers are supplied bysuperior teachers, among whom may be found men and womenof the highest culture and social standing. You will hardlyfind a church in the Pueblos tha
Sketch of the Pueblos and Pueblo County, ColoradoIllustratedPublished by the Board of Trade . stor. Cumberland Presbyterian Church, South Pueblo. E. Long, pastor. Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church, F. Lagerman,pastor. A Baptist church (colored) just organized. By the side of the churches, and to complete their instruc-tion to all classes, there have been organized not less than 25Sunday schools, whose ever increasing numbers are supplied bysuperior teachers, among whom may be found men and womenof the highest culture and social standing. You will hardlyfind a church in the Pueblos that has not its benevolent society,and private benevolence, which is always best, is also carryingon its work independent of all societies. Religious life is here a reality. The clergymen are, as abody, superior, educated, toiling, God-fearing men. Amongthem there is very little of that mode of thought which seeks tomake religionists and forgets to make men. The sectarian spiritwith the narrowness, with its traditions, its exaggerations oftrivial nonessentials, is certainly not CliURT house. EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES. Education is the great bulwark of civil liberty. There is an opinion, prevalent and widespread, that thepeople of new states are not proverbial for the attention theydevote to the great cause of education ; that we must look tothe older states for examples in this direction ; that the peopleof newer communities haye neither the time nor the inclinationto foster or encourage common schools, or other educationalenterprises ; that the race for wealth absorbs the attention of thewestern pioneers, to the exclusion of mental culture. That thismay be true, in a qualified sense, in some of the western states,I concede ; that it is not true of Colorado, I boldly our people have all of that western push, energy and en-terprise, so necessary to financial success, no one familiar withthem can deny; but with attributes so important for businesssucce
Size: 1647px × 1517px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthoryapamphl, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookyear1883
