Article June 22, 1899 Issue

Growth of Christian Science

Daily Journal

While in various parts of the country the question of proceeding in criminal action against the Christian Scientists is being agitated, it is interesting to note that the first Annual Meeting of the Scientists is now being held at Boston, and the figures given out at that meeting indicate that they are a larger and stronger body than perhaps has been understood. There are about ten thousand members of the Church of Christ in attendance at the convention, and on Sunday last 2,550 names were added to the roll and received into the church. This includes several from England and Scotland, and three from Australia, who made the pilgrimage to Boston to unite with the Mother Church.

An address by Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy of Concord, N. H., defended Christian Science and reviewed what had been accomplished. There are now 304 branch churches, and III additional regularly established Sunday services in the United States and in several foreign countries, including Canada, England, Scotland, France, and Germany, with a total membership of upward of seventy thousand, while the church attendants number more than three hundred thousand.

The membership enrolled on the books of the Mother Church up to May 29 was 12, 114. There were about 2,550 candidates. This will make to-day a total membership of about fifteen thousand. Of this number thirteen hundred are resident members, and the rest are non-resident, who are all, however, contributors. Members of branch churches are privileged to become members of the Mother Church also, if recommended by those who are already members of the Mother Church.

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