Religion: Chicago's S. E. C.

Chicago's Loop contains fewer churches (two) than the downtown districts of most other big U. S. cities. But every Sunday night from October to June some 2,000 Chicagoans and out-of-town visitors take their spiritual sustenance at the famed Chicago Sunday Evening Club in Orchestra Hall. There the ablest ministers of all sects preach to salesmen, students, merchants, homebodies, who dare laugh or beat their palms in applause as they would not in church. Last Sunday evening the S. E. C. gave its audience a novelty when onto the stage filed 300 young...

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