Article July 12, 1900 Issue

Among the Churches

with contributions from J. Edward Smith, Ida M. Studley, Harry M. Harringer

I located in Poughkeepsie in July, 1897. There were then about ten persons interested in Christian Science, two or three of whom had done some good work in circulating literature. None, however, knew enough about Christian Science to make the smallest demonstration. To-day we have forty-six students in the Fields who can and do demonstrate the power of Truth and Love to heal sickness and sin. Among these are some of our best-known business men; one professor in Eastman's Business College, one principal, and three teachers in public schools.

In April, 1898, our church was chartered with twenty-one members. In April, 1900, we have enrolled fifty-two members and an attendance at our services of from fifty to eighty persons. We have had four lectures. The attendance at the first lecture was eighty; at the last, given by Judge Ewing, May 24, there was an audience of about seven hundred.

We find the distribution of literature a most potent factor in our work and we have an organized literature committee whose business it is to distribute systematically our literature in a manner calculated to do the most good. Our literature committee have just placed in the library at Vassar College a complete set of Mrs. Eddy's works, and have obtained the privilege and great pleasure of subscribing for the Christian Science Journal and the Sentinel to be sent to the Vassar College reading room. Vassar ranks among the most popular schools for girls in our land, and our readers will be pleased to know that we have a number of students from the college at our Sunday and Wednesday services.

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