Article August 10, 1907 Issue

AMONG THE CHURCHES

With hearts overflowing with gratitude to God, and to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, the edifice of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, 910 Edmond Street, was dedicated Sunday morning, June 30. The usual services were held, and were preceded by remarks by Mrs. Alice Fairleigh, who said in part,—

"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above." To read the truth, to teach it, and to preach it, are comparatively easy, but to realize and live it are tests of true discipleship. The spirit, not the letter, is what we are earnestly striving for. The material church has been and still is a means of reaching some conception of our house within the veil, "an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." It is a candle-stick of the letter and the law, wherein we may place our lighted candle of truth, that it may shine with an undimmed light. Through all the past ages, even as now, have homesick prodigals sought the way to the Father's house through the means of an earthly shrine.

Doubtless there are those with us to-day who do not know as do we how great is the debt which mankind owes to our beloved Leader, but "these things are not done in the dark," and all must realize in a degree what a boon has been brought to mankind by her untiring labor of love. It is through this labor of love, and this kingdom of heaven in our hearts, that it has been made possible for us to dedicate this, our dear little earthly tabernacle, to-day. True, it is but a very modest little church, but the love which is manifested here proves that it is but an externalizing of our house within. The money with which the debt of our church was paid was raised without solicitation other than to state our need, and we have had only two donations outside of those directly interested in Christian Science.—Correspondence.

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