Chicago by day and night . the veryaristocratic congregation of St. James, cornerof Cass and Superior streets, is presided overby Dr. Tompkins. The clergymen above mentioned are amongthe most famous in the city, but there aremany others almost equally prominent. Thewayfarer, however, will be interested in learn-ing of the popularity of the services at Centralchurch and the Peoples church, conducted atCentral Music Hall and McVickers theatrerespectively by Prof. David Swing and Dr. Thomas. Both these gentlemen pos-sessed large foUowings when their Congregationswere formed. Prof. Swing is o
Chicago by day and night . the veryaristocratic congregation of St. James, cornerof Cass and Superior streets, is presided overby Dr. Tompkins. The clergymen above mentioned are amongthe most famous in the city, but there aremany others almost equally prominent. Thewayfarer, however, will be interested in learn-ing of the popularity of the services at Centralchurch and the Peoples church, conducted atCentral Music Hall and McVickers theatrerespectively by Prof. David Swing and Dr. Thomas. Both these gentlemen pos-sessed large foUowings when their Congregationswere formed. Prof. Swing is one of the lead-ing personalities of the religious life of the is a man of exceedingly plain exterior buthis sermons are sound and forcible. It wouldbe difficult to analyze his creed or that of the 75 j>eople who go to hear him. Central MusicHall is filled every Sunday morning with alarge gathering of well-to-do people whosereligious ideas could not, perhaps, be very ac-curately defined, but who would not go any-. where else under any inducement. There isalso a large sprinkling of outsiders. The man-ner in which Prof. Swings followers appreciate his ministrations in their behalf is evidencedby their paying him a salary ample enough toenable him to build a palatial summer home at 76 Lake Geneva, a near-by hot weather resortwhose grassy banks are lined with the villas ofChicago millionaires. Dr. Thomas is a Httlemore orthodox in his tenets, perhaps, but hisservices are no less popular than At both of these temples of worship,operated, as they are, in places devoted through-out the week to public amusement, chance visi-tors are made heartily welcome and manystrangers who would not inconvenience them-selves to ride out to one of the orthodoxchurches take advantage of the nearness ofthese two to their hotels and drop in on Sun-day morning for an hour or so of spiritualenlightenment. CHAPTER VII. PANORAMAS AND LIBBY PRISON.
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