The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ST. MATTHEWS CHURCH. -300 The Worcester of 1898. .affording them all that is best in religious education, and providingin unstinted degree for the requirements of secular learning. Anaccumulated library of 5,000 volumes of choice and varied literature isat the service of the scholars, who are constantly stimulated to the full?exertion of their talents. In the same year Reverend Denis Scannell was made pastor of Church on Shrewsbury street. A few years later it was foundthat the church was inadequate to the wants o
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ST. MATTHEWS CHURCH. -300 The Worcester of 1898. .affording them all that is best in religious education, and providingin unstinted degree for the requirements of secular learning. Anaccumulated library of 5,000 volumes of choice and varied literature isat the service of the scholars, who are constantly stimulated to the full?exertion of their talents. In the same year Reverend Denis Scannell was made pastor of Church on Shrewsbury street. A few years later it was foundthat the church was inadequate to the wants of the growing congrega-. SOUTH UNITARIAN CHURCH. The Worcester of 1898. 3or tion. The pastor procured a new lot on a much more elevated andelig^ible site. In 1885, to his great joy and that of his congregation,he offered the holv sacrifice of the mass on one of the highest summits-of our hill-crowned city. From its eminence on the brow of Normalhill the new St. Annes presents a striking appearance, bearing aloftI he symbol of mans redemption into the sunlight of heaven, andreflecting its cheering ray into the heart of the Christian beholder. The Parish of the Immaculate Conception was organized in Novem-ber, 1873, and the church, begun in the same 3ear, owing to the con-stant care and unceasing toil of the pastor, Reverend Robert Walsh,was completed four years later. (Jn July 2, 1879, the feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin,the first excavations were made for the building of the Sacred HeartChurch, and on September 21, the corner-stone of the church was laidby Bishop OReilly. The Church of the Sacre
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