Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 148, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1912 Page: 50 of 85
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ALVESTON has a church building for every nine
hundred and seventy-five people who claim the city
as their place of abode, according to the last
United States census. A count of the church build-
ings shows the existence of exactly forty, located at convenient
and easily accessible places about the city. The ample support
given the church by those whose names are on the membership
rolls of the various organizations may be accepted as indicating
the sentiment of the community as to matters spiritual. The
number of church buildings is never to be accepted as a true
criterion of the spiritual life of any community, but the interest
taken by the church membership is the gauge by which this is
to be measured, and, in this particular, Galveston stands abreast
with those cities of the land that have made reputations for
earnestness in inculcating the Divine laws and -contributing to
the moral elevation of its citizenship.
In the teaching of spiritual truths the different church or-
ganizations are laboring faithfully with the young; the Sunday
schools are well equipped and the corps of officers and teachers,
well trained and of more or less experience, and it is believed
that in this direction seed is being sown that must have its effect
in a beter code of morals in the coming years.
While but few church edifices have been erected during the
past decade, those that have been added to the number in exist-
ence have in them incorporated all the latest ideas in church
architecture, inside and out. The buildings themselves are
splendid specimens of ecclesiastical construction, adding attrac-
tiveness to their surroundings. The inside arrangement would
indicate that every attention had been given to what is the latest
and best in arrangement of auditoriums, acoustics and other
modern essentials.
Almost every church of any pretention in the city is
equipped with a pipe organ and some of the most noted musical
talent in the country has been called into the service of the Gal-
veston churches. The choirs, as a rule, contain an unusually
large proportion of good voices and the music in the various
churches has become a marked feature. Auxiliary to the church
congregations are numerous societies which look after different
departments of the activity of the churches. Through these
agencies and others in the city not connected with any of the
churches, the amount of what can be termed abject poverty in
the city is reduced to a minimum, and it may be .truly said that
there are no extremely poor people in Galveston.
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ALVESTON is proud of her schools, and not without
reason, for her educational institutions have been as
potent in giving lustre to her name as have been the
mighty engineering enterprises that have by their bold-
ness of cenception and thoroughness of execution made this city
the standard of municipal progress for the century It is not
that the Galveston schools are housed in handsome or even ade-
quate buildings, but that the system has been tested, tried,
weighed and found not wanting.
Up to 1881 what were known as the county schools com-
posed all the educational facilities possessed by Galveston, and
while these were in charge of a splendid corps of teachers, the
buildings were small and inadequate, insufficiently furnished and
inconveniently located. In the year mentioned the city took
over the county schools and from thg.t time dates the beginning
of Galveston’s march to the front among the nation’s communi-
ties where education is a feature near to the hearts of the people.
Two of Galveston’s public School buildings have been
donated the city, the Rosenberg school in the eastern portion
of the city and the Ball high school in the city’s population cen-
ter- This latter school is probably better known than any other
'institution of its kind in the state because of the number of
brilliant scholars it has graduated and the high standard required
from those who would possess a diploma from this school.
Nine years ago the names of the Second, Third and Fourth
district schools were made “San Jacinto,” “Goliad” and “Alamo,”
respectively, and the choice of titles has served to deepen the im-
pression made on the minds of the children, recalling as they do
the stories that have made the history of Texas one luminous in
the annals of the nation.
But not alone of her public schools is Galveston proud.
While the major portion of the 6,669 children of scholastic age
in the city are cared for by the public schools, a number of
parochial and private institutions are laboring faithfully to edu-
cate the young and maintain the high reputation attained by the
city as an educational center. • Then the Medical branch of the
Texas State University is located here, given to this city by a
vote of the people of Texas because of the peculiar advantages
a great seaport possesses over inland cities for the study of dis-
eases. Commercial colleges, night schools and, not the least,
Rosenberg library, may be included in the list of educational
privileges to be enjoyed in this city.
Religion
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for Men Who Are Brave
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the Truth Seven
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Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 148, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1912, newspaper, May 16, 1912; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth871897/m1/50/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting San Jacinto Museum of History.