Article June 16, 1906 Issue

The Communion Service and Dedication

with contributions from William B. Johnson

[We are indebted to The Boston Herald for the following interesting account of the Communion service and the dedication of the Extension of The Mother Church of Christ, Scientist.—Editor.]

Five thousand people kneeling in silent Communion; a stillness profound, and then, rising in unison from the vast congregation, the words of the Lord's Prayer! Such was the closing incident of the dedicatory services of the Extension of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at the corner of Falmouth and Norway Streets, yesterday morning. such was the scene repeated six times during the day.

It was a sight which no one who saw it will ever be able to forget. Many more gorgeous church pageantries have been in this country and in an older civilization; there have been church ceremonies that appealed more to the eye, but the impressiveness of this lay in its very simplicity; its grandeur sprang from the something emanating from thought and of purpose. There was something emanating from the thousands who worshiped under the dome of the great edifice whose formal opening they had gathered to observe, that appealed to and fired the imagination. A comparatively different religion launching upon a new era, assuming an altogether different status before the world.

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