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edifice in the city. Its age-mellowed chime of bells 

 was the first ever brought into this country, and the 

 first American Sunday-school was established there in 

 1816. To-day its tall steeple, which on the eve of 

 Lexington's conflict bore the signal lanterns of Paul 

 Revere, is the most conspicuous object in the North 

 End, where the old-time aristocrats who worshipped 

 in Christ Church have given place to a poverty-stricken 

 foreign population to whom the church is little and its 

 traditions less. Churches which well deserve more 

 extended mention, could space permit, are the beautiful 

 Gothic Cathedral of the Holy Cross, with its fine 

 organ and splendid high-altar of onyx and marble; 

 Tremont Temple, wliose hall is the largest in Boston; 

 - and tiie South Congregational Church, presided over 

 by Rev. Edward Everett Hale, author of ^' The 

 Man witiiout a Country '^ and other world-famous 

 literary productions, and originator of the equally 

 famous " Ten Times One'' clubs. 



Boston's religious history is most interesting, although 

 almost kaleidoscopic in its changes. From being the 

 stronghold of Puritan orthodoxy it has become the 

 headquarters of liberal Unitarianism. King's Chapel 

 is a curious instance; originally an Episcopal church 

 ajid congregation, it became Unitarian in 1787, retain- 

 ing the Episcopal liturgy with necessary changes, and 

 now doctrines are preached over the tombs of the dead 

 dignitaries interred beneath the church floor, diamet- 

 rically opposed to those in which they lived, died and 

 were buried. Though all denominations of course 

 flourish within her walls, Boston is still strongly Con- 

 gregational in her leanings. 



From the churches to the schools is a natural trail- 



