Among the Churches.

with contributions from Hannah Matthes

Sandusky, O.

The truth of our dear Leader's words, that "giving does not impoverish us in the service of our Maker" (Science and Health, p. 79), has again been proved to us as a church, and our hearts are filled with love and gratitude for the blessings which divine Love has bestowed upon us.

Early in the year there seemed to be a lack of funds in the church, and at a special church meeting we were led to see that our need could be supplied only by having faith in God, by giving more to the parent vine, and by knowing that the little oil in the cruse and the handful of meal in the barrel would not be exhausted by giving. By unanimous vote it was decided to send our own church building fund and one tenth of our monthly collections to the Building Fund of The Mother Church, in addition to what had been sent. Since that has been done, the shadows have been lifted and divine Love is seen to be our only source of supply.

The children of the Sunday School have eagerly sent their fund also, it being their desire to make the mite big with love and the joy that comes with cheerful giving.

This year when the annual reports were read at the business meeting of the church, it was seen that all expenses had been paid and the treasury not depleted. The sale of literature has been gratifying, for in our town of about twenty-two thousand, nearly six hundred dollars worth of literature, including fifty-two copies of Science and Health, has been sold the past year. The public library, county infirmary, and Soldiers' Home have been supplied with copies of our text-book and other Christian Science publications.

Our church is growing spiritually and numerically, the sick are being healed, the sinful regenerated; and we turn to our beloved Leader with grateful hearts for this demonstration, which has been made possible only by the understanding given to us through her discovery of Christian Science.—Hannah Matthes, Clerk.

Halifax, Nova Scotia.

So rapid has been the growth of the congregation of First Church of Christ, Scientist, of this city, that a larger building than that in which the services are now held is desirable. It has been just six months since the church was opened, and the weekly testimony meetings seem to show that it will never lack for adherents. Certainly it will not do so while the stories of healing there to be heard continue to be true. Yesterday the subject for the day was "Love," and it was certainly full of food for thought. Whether one can assent fully to the teaching or not, the fact remains (shown to be a fact by personal inquiry on the part of a representative of the Mail) that there are in Halifax believers in Christian Science who are so through the cure of physical disease by some other agency than medicine, and who assert with a buoyant confidence which is at least winning, that they are believers in Christian Science because of what it has done for them. Undoubtedly no believer in any doctrine has a stronger or more impregnable ground for belief than that.

The Halifax (N. S.) Evening Mail.

New Britain, Conn.

Christian Scientists are gaining strength in this city. The sect has grown so strong that the members are now planning to build a church. The meetings are at present held in J. A. Andrews and Company's block. Services are held every Sunday, and from forty to fifty people at least attend regularly.—New Britain (Conn.) Record.

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