Article April 22, 1905 Issue

Among the Churches

Adela S. Hawley

The Pittsburg Gazette

First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Clyde Street, was dedicated yesterday [April 9], three services being necessary to accommodate all those who attended. To add to the interest of the event a greeting was received from the Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the Founder of Christian Science.

The new church edifice was crowded at the morning service, which began at eleven o'clock. After the organ prelude and hymn there was a Scripture lesson and readings from Science and Health, the text-book of Christian Science. This was followed by silent prayer and the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation as given in the Christian Science text-book. Mrs. J. E. Patton then rendered a solo, after which Mrs. Warrington Warwick, the Second Reader, read the history of the church organization. The First Reader, A. Bruce Coffroth, C.S.B., also spoke. Mr. Coffroth's remarks were followed by another hymn and the benediction. The afternoon and evening services were repetitions of the morning service.

A number of visiting Scientists from neighboring states, as well as from various parts of Pennsylvania, were present at the services. Visitors from Philadelphia and New York were in evidence, and may be heard from at the final meeting held in connection with the dedicatory services this evening, at which time many telegrams and letters of congratulation which have been received from churches and individuals throughout the United States as well as some from abroad will be read.—The Pittsburg Gazette.

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