Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1910 — Chicago Is Not Such a Wicked City [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Chicago Is Not Such a Wicked City

CHICAGO. —Chicago is proving to ’the world’that she is not as black as she has been tainted! Long has she been held up as the wickedest city in the nation, a place, for the righteous to avoid if this line of conduct was to be persevered in. On the surface she was so bad that good people outside thought that whoever her gates left hope behind so far as tbe virtues and the practise of religion were involved. All this time the heart of Chicago was sound even if vice flourished openly in parts of the city. If the queen city of the west were as inky as she has been pictured she would never have reared 1,000 temples *tor divine worship and maintained

them. Men and women do not do thlw unless imbued with piety and tha necessity for public worship. The Chicagoans are manifesting] this religious spirit just now In tha eagerness of the church-going to pro-* mote this practise among those who> pay little or no heed to It. The former are going about seeking out tha latter and finding why church attendance is neglected. How thorough Is, this movement Is borne out by tha fact that 15,000 men and women ara engaged In It and that they have reached 2,000,000 persons. They find! that 900,000 regularly attended church; and that 50,000 were irregular attendjmts, making a total of 1,350,000 that were more or less under the lnfluenca ol Christian preaching. The_ census proves that Chicago 1* more religious than any other of tha metropolitan cities of the country and that few of the smaller cities 1 relatively can match her in attendance upon and devotion to the ohnuh.