Among the Churches

with contributions from Maggie Drake

Site Purchased at Milwaukee, Wis.

The Second Church of Christ, Scientist, of this city, has bought the site for a church building on the southwest corner of Prospect Avenue and Keene Street, and the deed was placed on record to-day. The property has a frontage of one hundred feet on the avenue and runs back on Keene Street a depth of one hundred and twenty feet. The previous owner of the lot was William Swain, who sold it to the Christian Science corporation for twenty thousand dollars. While the new owners of the property do not intend to build a church immediately and are in a measure uncertain as to just when they will put up a building, they are determined upon one thing, and that is, that they will put up a fine structure when they do build. Keene is the first street which cuts into Prospect Avenue, and the neighborhood is a select one, with fine buildings in the vicinity. The Christian Scientists say that they feel a moral obligation to erect a church edifice which shall be consistent with the surroundings.

Unlike many religious congregations, the Christian Scientists do not run into debt. When they are ready to build they will have the cash on hand. They say that no Christian Science Church is dedicated unless it is free from debt. To put up such a building as they desire on Prospect Avenue might involve an outlay of perhaps one hundred thousand dollars. For the past five years this congregation, which was formerly known as the Milwaukee Church of Christ, Scientist, has held its services in the Athenæum. The attendance now is about three hundred, both on Wednesday evening and on Sunday morning.

Evening Wisconsin.

From Berlin, Germany.

Knowing that all tidings of the good work which is spreading so rapidly in all lands will be welcome to loyal Scientists anywhere, I wish to assure you that the Truth as taught by the Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy is being faithfully presented and eagerly received by Germans and English-speaking people alike; so while Berlin has a young congregation, it has the sure foundation of zeal and loyalty.

From the small beginning of which I wrote you last spring, the growth, under the guidance of our efficient leader, is most encouraging, and more seats have already been added to the original number.

Two full services are held every Sunday morning,—the first in the German language, and the second in English. Both are well attended.

Many cases of wonderful healing might be mentioned, but I shall speak of but one,—a severe case of spinal trouble, which had confined a German woman to her chair, absolutely helpless, for a number of years. The miracle of old has been again repeated, and she now walks.

The Germans take up this new thought very quickly, and people who cannot speak a word of English, study the "little book," and grow constantly in the understanding.

All honor to our dear Mother, and to her faithful students, both at home and abroad.

Mrs. Maggie Drake, Berlin, Germany.

A Good Religion.

An exchange puts it down strongly this way: "The religion that makes people pay their debts, the religion that makes no distinction between wealth and poverty, the religion that keeps people from speaking ill of their neighbors, the religion that makes men manly and women womanly, the religion that is a part of people's every-day life, exemplified in kind deeds, loving acts, cheering words, is the religion that is felt in the world to-day."

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