Article March 15, 1900 Issue

Christian Science in Germany

BY D. B. MACGOWAN.

Chicago Tribune

Berlin, February 6.—Christian Science has gained a substantial foothold in three cities of Germany and has incipient churches in two or three other places. Mrs. Frances Thurber Seal, formerly of New York, after starting the work in Dresden, largely among the American and English residents, came to Berlin and rented apartments near Winterfeldt Platz in the western part of the city and fitted up the salon as a meeting hall, with a capacity of eighty people. She now has two German assistants, and holds two services in German and two in English every week. The attendance is often as high as sixty persons at a meeting.

At Dresden also four meetings a week are held. The Dresden community is still composed largely of English-speaking people. Mrs. Frey, at Heidelberg, and Pastor Dieterle, formerly a German Methodist minister, are pioneers in South Germany, operating at Heidelberg and Stuttgart respectively.

The main Christian Science centre is, however, Hannover. Frau Bertha Gunther—often called Gunther-Peterson, according to the Swiss custom of appending the maiden name to the marriage name in hyphenating—and Fraulines Marie and Ida Schoen have an average attendance at their meetings of two hundred persons. They no longer attempt to find room for these gatherings at 18 Geibelstrasse, where they have two entire floors as living apartments and offices, but have secured a hall in a large hotel near the centre of the city.

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