. The New England magazine . six churches ; the Trinitarian Congrega-tionalists, four; the Roman Catholicsthree, one being French; the Universal-ists and Episcopalians, two each; andthe Unitarians, Friends, Christians, Swed-enborgians and Second Adventists, oneeach. Some of the church edifices,notably the beautiful St. Stephens andthe First Universalist church, both ofwhich are built of the native porphyriticstone found in the hills behind Lynn, arestately and effective buildings. St. Stephenshas been called by foreign visitors the mostbeautiful piece of distinctively church archi-tecture in t
. The New England magazine . six churches ; the Trinitarian Congrega-tionalists, four; the Roman Catholicsthree, one being French; the Universal-ists and Episcopalians, two each; andthe Unitarians, Friends, Christians, Swed-enborgians and Second Adventists, oneeach. Some of the church edifices,notably the beautiful St. Stephens andthe First Universalist church, both ofwhich are built of the native porphyriticstone found in the hills behind Lynn, arestately and effective buildings. St. Stephenshas been called by foreign visitors the mostbeautiful piece of distinctively church archi-tecture in the United States. The church,erected at a cost of a quarter of a million ofdollars, was the gift of the Hon. E. Redington organized and does auseful work. There is ahome for aged women,and an inebriates home,both fining well theirplace in the charitablework of the ■^r^i& A .aa3i333 .FytiiPe- The Lynn Shoe Industry. Although it is said that church growthhas hardly kept pace with the growth ofthe city in the last twenty-five years,Lynn compares favorably with othermanufacturing cities of its size in thenumber of its religious societies, theirmembership and their activity. TheMethodist denomination leads in num-bers, having eight or nine churches,one being African. The Baptists have Mudge, as a me-morial to his sonand daughter; andstrangely enoughthe funeral of thegiver was the firstservice held in thecompleted build-ing. The FirstCongregational so-ciety is a historic body, having beengathered in 1632. It is beUeved tobe the oldest society of the TrinitarianCongregational body in America. It wasthe fifth society to be formed in the BayColony, and is one of but three or fourof the old churches which have main-tained their loyalty to the old Puritanfaith. The First Universalist society isone of the largest in the city, and one of 518 THE CITY
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