Article July 4, 1903 Issue

Among the Churches

The following extract from "the leading organ of public opinion in the north of England" records a most interesting event in the history of our Cause, and the loving thought of the entire Field will be given these earnest workers in "The Old Home." We have received two interesting communications respecting the work, from representatives of the Manchester Church, for which our crowded columns offer no space.

The members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, who have met for some time past in modest premises in Manchester, have decided to build a more suitable place of worship in Victoria Park. There will be seats for five hundred people, and the ultimate cost of the work will be £5,000. At present, however, only the nave is to be completed, at an estimated expenditure of £1,800. The site chosen is pleasantly situated at the corner of Daisy Bank Road and Hope Road. The ceremony of laying the cornerstone was performed on Saturday afternoon, May 30, by Lady Victoria Murray, who was accompanied by the Earl of Dunmore, Lady Mildred Murray, the Hon. Frances Gibson, the Hon. William G. Ewing (formerly Judge of the Superior Court of Illinois), and many adherents of Christian Science in Manchester and elsewhere.

The simple service in the open air was conducted by Lady Victoria Murray. First she read 1 Corinthians, 3, and a passage from Ephesians, 2. This was followed by an extract from the letter written by Rev. Mary Baker Eddy upon the occasion of the laying of the foundation-stone of the Mother Church. Next there was an interval of silent prayer, after which those present united in the recital of the Lord's Prayer. Then Judge Ewing delivered a brief address. Without entering at length into an exposition of the doctrines of Christian Science, he explained that it was trying to build up the same kingdom of God in the world as other Christian churches were laboring to establish. "We believe," he said, "in the same all-wise and ever-present God and in the same divine Christ, and we are exercising all the energies of our lives to bring about the accomplishment of that beautiful day spoken of (it is a promise, and a promise to be kept) when a whole nation shall be born in a day, when God's kingdom shall come into this world, and His will be done as it is done in heaven."

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