Article March 1, 1900 Issue

Among the Churches

with contributions from M. M. Lutz, A. F. B., Constance Gibson

It may interest your readers to know that Christian Science services are held in a public room every Sunday morning and evening, in the old university town of Cambridge, England.

For more than a year previously two friends had met in a private house to read the Quarterly Lesson. The reading had gradually developed into a full service. The readers were first joined by their own seven boys, and then by a slowly but steadily widening circle of interested friends. Two of them had already become interested in Christian Science in America.

When the little congregation had for one or two Sundays numbered over twenty, it was felt that a move must ere long be made. And yet we seemed in no hurry to move on, for our meetings in the pretty, cosy drawing-room, always beautiful with fresh flowers, so generously and joyously lent to Science, Sunday after Sunday, had been very happy ones, and perhaps there was even, with some of us, a little shrinking from publicity. How it came about, or who proposed it, we could none of us say, but it was suggested that inquiries should be made about public rooms with the result that we almost immediately found a large, bright, upper room, in a very central part of the town, well lighted, and provided with a piano, ready to be hired for a moderate sum. It seemed to have been just prepared to meet our need, and was engaged without delay.

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