Show I I School for Chicago go Chronicle This building is fl dedicated to public 5 service Cf honoring the me memory mor of oC A Abra- Abra bra bra- ham u m Lincoln Democrat j A j. j bronze tablet bearing tJ the th above c words adorns the front of ot th the Abrah Abra Abra- h ham 1 Lincoln Center building nt at Thirty Thirty- t. t ninth street e t and avenue It sf H to f-el f t forth succinctly tI the objects for tor or which and well the I ty nn and to lo the rUIth building was wn furtherance of ot which I Lloyd tJ Jones Joncs and who no associated with I 1 him isbn are ue their I Jives s. devoting Lincoln center Is la a n church which Is not Tot a church for fot It I Is not for or a n creed but lul for fOI all cr creeds l not flOt for a n raco but for nIl al' races not for far a class but for nil all classes I It Il number r. r among amons Its most earnest earliest adherents ts Unitarians like Uke Mr Mi 11 F Jon Jons s Je Jews ws and member rs of almost t the fid t better all nil Christian s sects The Tiit most thing tills this church church- r loss church Is I h. h the Sunday set set- ser v etI t e v rn-v U over ItT Mr ir 11 Jones Jone jone presides and n at 1 which he lie preaches chI short ser sermons ser ser- r mons frequently on topics seldom men men- In the ho pulpit Kobert Hobert asa Poet t of oC Faith Browning w was one of his sub while Stratford an Appeal From Tyranny to God Cod was another History andy literature play a n large Dart Iut In the tf teachings of or this practical dreamerS dreamer this minister who has haft his church a n home fo for th tIt homeless a meeting place for o who know lenow no nil one with those who know everyone Tins Has a n Handsome m Homo Ione The Th permanent home homp of or Lincoln center cen cen- ter occupies 1 a site Milt feet extends ft si ix and a half ties stories Into the air anti and t Oll one down Into the earth It Tt is I m h st solid brick structure which cost tr o over tOO tt to Ce build and Is entirely pall paid for In it are rooms for rest and rooms for work wort of all kinds There Is one small chamber where a ma masterpiece of oC art Is j t. t to he e on view a now nl loan Joan picture being helIg placed ird on exhibition oil at frequent intervals inter inter- vals alo In another Is housed a well se se- se elc e- e lc le d library and T reading u room widely is always OI open n to the free freo use uc of the pub pub- lic hie III in another r place dark arl rooms are Otc provided for tor photographers f and In still mother a 1 special Drowning Browning 1 library I Is ng be lI Installed In an exceptionally beau beau- II I room oom which has Just been fitted up ff Jf Its r reception C Irom From the moment one en ln rs Lincoln center till Iii one leaves Ica the surroundings art are those of rest art Ie rc- J f ment and all that Is uplifting In the truest and anti noblest sense of oC the term The I usual aids to religion are however hoc strikingly wanting The idea that religion reli rell- gion must be lie divorced from everyday life i ha has he been 11 studiously ol a avoided e and nn au attempt attempt at at- at- at tempt apparently made to inculcate the idea Instead that true religion Is a part or I jc II life fe that r religion Is what made the tho great Republican Lincoln a Democrat public Democrat public service service and and that that thai sonic same type of 01 religion Is what is goIng to make a greater I arl and better Chicago a I. I greater and bt better ietter America Art poetry literature these literature the these c three pla play If th their lr part and a large part It Is ir hr tl the Sunday services as In the other wor work itO Lincoln center but hut thc they are noi not y alt air for just as os man cannot e-annot live c b by bread so 50 so In the lie opinion of Mr rr Jones and 05 his hL colleagues s. s the lie work of oC th the he world cannot be done clone by cloistered saints who surrounding themselves with all that Is 18 b refu refuse e to associate themselves 1 lh the hI more mor life of the th day i I II Accordingly th the mc na practical side It Is 11 tJ by no forgotten Th The asses H R teach social science girls alII and bo boys th the arl avis arts of simple I everyday life cool cooling cooking for both bOlh ex M C-M s M and sewing and millinery for or the 1 girls while in In a few fw we weeks kR It I Is ex ex- Pt the ma manual 13 11 I training ti L classes ehase will I be started ti In the he I basement I which Which workshop it Is hi already Whose e pro progress r. r Patti partly fitted up un and Is lt I r by Iy being Ing watched of oC boys whose I Itch ea eager r lingers lt to handle Ion tin tools of oC men and fashIon fash- fash io beautiful ant and useful a articles as at their lieu f fathers do In them treat great world mo most st of oC ate are longing to enter Cuter It Il may bei h said Raid then that Lincoln center cen cen- ter tel Is 18 a school school school-a a school chool of oC citizenship citizenship- In that It seeks to draw ro out all that there lucre is in f er every man mall or woman bo boy or girl Irl associated with it It The spiritual lJJ the thur aesthetic the practical ai I. I nil all are hire cared for fot and Inde Indeed d. d the new gymnasium 3 even t looking after artir the Ih bodily welfare of th the elt city youth endangered ii by too close Io f fn in tn application to 0 hooks bools of oC or DOCKS 8 of or commerce A charity an and 1 y yet t not a charity Lincola LinColn Lin Lin- Lin- Lin coln cola center tee gives little for fOI nothing hut but much for tor vel very little Ih The Tue reading rooms for ups grown and null children ren are indeed Nl free tree to all all hut but In most of the other othI de a small mall charge I Is made maule often not enough to cover er the cost In III In the gym sym for Cor example h twenty ent Ic lessons sons aro are given for or 1 JI while the domestic science classes and so forth are art a administered 11 in the tile same ame liberal ral spirit At t lh the Sunday service to which ref deuce has haM ulrea already y been made as much attention Is devoted to music ns us to preach Ing lug and as liS much to good fellowship a t to either An un exceptionally tine line organ org has been Installed the th gift of r F. F Edward warI Morris L. L J. J Jamsen nn and Ira N. N Morris |