Show philadelphian PHILA DELPHIAS vegetarian CHURCH ONLY AMERICA vegetarianism is alic banner under which hundreds of arc ri marching nowadays A sudden wave of U popularity haa risen in tha erstwhile erat while calm course of its followers and many new organizations have lately sprung wp foster thia religion philadelphia is alio worlds great center of thia cult churches mission f homes restaurants and boarding houses 5 11 tend to strengthen the believers n the doctrine aad help to make fresh convert siana food becomes hia mind wight be considered tho creed of thi cult whose followers are so impressed ith the benefits derived from a diet without meat that they have banded together founded a church tha only one of its kind in the united and ought to convert others to their way of thinking and living i atie church with its vegetarian pas R tor vegetarian congregation and vege 5 choir is called the first bible y church of the icv henry B alt ibb the pastor is hale and hearty ant his parishioners S from years end to years end touch no meat for noine time dr clubb ha preached to the value both to tha moral and physical man of disciplining the appetites for llesh food and for more than seventy years he hat followed the doctrines of the mcge j karhu church church waa found 1 ome and its congregation i ai has gradually rown froni a mere hand f ful of 10 the flourishing body new members now being constantly gained v P fort n of their are few and aro very but impressive abe i the basu of their r cred and a of peace pervades ig th alk of ivor ship 4 feature and ona t which instantly impresses the vaitor to 2 tha church ii alio health and 4 vigor of alic congregation tha men si appear fleit and muscular tho women i 1 f resli ami blooming old age seems to r come witt bagging footsteps and the T of time arc light there are A houlder pr no sallow facca and scarcely a shaking hand among the 1 entire awl V dr chubb although having celebrated if bin birthday is a active as a man 1 tunny years younger and nil this ho S Hc wholly to tho abstinence not i merely on his own part but on the part of several past generations of hi fam ily equally ns active a dr clubbe Cl ubba church is a vegetarian mission which makes its home in the lower part of the city at north second street A huge sign in front proclaims tho gospel help M lesion and here in the cheapest hotel in the horld the abstain ers atom beat draw converts to rinks ly feeding and lodging them at wonderfully low t imaki it was the work of nn vegetarian dr W L anil lit art other roem bora of tho cult ibave taken an interest in its 8 tn iti e bort life it has served cuesta with lodging and with meals and despite its cheap HM it is elf supporting i y here a lacks lodging lol ging ith meals a day and the aiso of abath a set andalio laundry costs 11 the lodging i cheap the bath i of porcelain the shaving et better than the and the laundry well equipped they who avail themselves of all thoe comfort aro nac of n exalted ocl ta tiou in fact most of thron anro atif iho foryt class and the mison prides itself on ahn fact tant it has had a number of and converts of the course bhea tle missiouri miss iori tortel clr few go iliew twenty beds and afew fi Js leous pieces of furniture in the aliouse li ouse and the first night three men slept and breakfasted there tho second there acro twenty men and fifty the the mission was a welcome and its first praised t maaia poudly and widely at the beginning men slept when beds tan out on the floor hut they arc permitted to do this no longer for cleanliness and order are hard enough to maintain the place is but mod brately full when it i overcrowded such maintenance ia impossible hie more fastidious there are obber lucre expensive vegetarian restaurants tau rants ift philadelphia which cater to th det cate tastes of their patrons and to their bithe most active vegetarians in uio city belong to the smart set and right n their midst eliere fashionable and cafes abound in walnut frucce near tenth a pretty litolf p cp the daintiness of whose mr tice oud alie most fastidious are is yell patronized i that would tempt the biot og unary tp bacomo a alre liere net forth to take the place af pf flesh fish androw and fow for instance a attractive look ing chicken is brought in and proves to te a delicious concoction with much tha of real fowl and having ground peanuts aa its base the conductor of this establishment mhd of the other vegetarian restaurants are wire in their day and generation for they recognize the truth of the saying that ones heart or mind may ba through his stomach all establishments though man need by different persons are really carried ua hy f combined efforts of influential fluent ial meiners of the vegetarian cult all aver th city quito a vegetarian lias been opened in the heart of the section this establishment agns ab accomplish among a quite dif class of people who are wealthy or at least well to do the amnie object as the mission downtown namely the conversion of meat caters 0 o the doctrine of vegetarianism and he to of those who have indulged too freely in the flesh pots of so far it has met with won success |