DENVER'S RELIGIOUS, PHILANTHROPIC AND BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS

"I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time believe - that no community can be upheld in happiness and honor without the sentiment of religion. "- Laplace.

      There are 122 church buildings in Denver, with corresponding auxiliaries such as Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., and similar institutions.

     No city of its size in America excels Denver in the number of people who do not consider the Almighty Dollar the be-all and end-all, but who, heeding the calls of humanity, devote time, thought, and money to philanthropic and benevolent work in which there is no pecuniary reward.

     The number in Denver is legion of secret and other societies on general lines, in which the primary object is a provision for sickness and death, the income being provided by the monthly contributions of the members.

     For the care of the sick the three hospitals--St. Anthony's (conducted by the Sisters of St. Francis); St. Luke's (Protestant); and St. Joseph's (conducted by the Sisters of Charity), all occupying commodious buildings, are doing a noble work at cost, and in some cases at less than cost; as also is the Denver Homeopathic Hospital.

     The County Hospital, supported by public taxation, takes care of impecunious patients, and the Union Pacific Railway Hospital makes a specialty of railroad employes' accident cases.

     For a limited number of the ever increasing arrivals of semi-invalids of moderate means, attracted to Denver by the climate, there is accommodation at cost price in the magnificent "Home."

Above: St. John's Cathedral and Interior

     The Charity Organization also includes the Denver Orphan Home, St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, the Ladies' Relief Society, the House of the Good Shepherd, the Day and Night Nursery, the Tabernacle Free Dispensary, the Children's Home Society, St. Luke's Hospital, St. Joseph's Hospital, Hebrew Ladies' Benevolent Society, North Denver Charity Organization Society, Denver Flower Mission, Florence Crittenden Mission, Florence Nursery and Maternity Home, W. C. T. U. Mission, Colorado Humane Society, Denver Homaeopathic Free Dispensary, and the Working Boys' Home.

Unity Church - Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church