PORTLAND, ME.

Ground was recently broken on Neal street for the Christian Science church. The building that is to be erected by the Portland society is to be a handsome edifice, and in keeping with the architecture and finish of the dwellings in that section of the city. The foundation is to be of concrete and the building is to be of fireproof construction.

Portland Transcript.

MILL VALLEY, CAL.

The Christian Scientists of Mill Valley have already commenced to hold services in their new church on the corner of Lovell and Olive avenues. The church building is not quite complete, but such progress has been made in its construction that it has been found possible to make use of it on Sundays, so the old place of gathering has been abandoned and the new put into use before the final work has passed from under the builders' hands.

San Francisco Chronicle.

SAN DIEGO, CAL.

A new Christian Science church is to be built in this city, at a cost of fifty thousand dollars. The need for a greatly enlarged structure is very pressing, the present house of worship at Third and Ash streets being far from adequate to accommodate the numbers who try to gain admission to every service. At the Sunday services every seat is taken, the vestibule is filled, and many are seated on the Readers' platform, while on Wednesday night large numbers are sometimes left standing in the street.—San Diego Union.

ST. LOUIS, MO.

The new home of Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, which is to be one of the most artistic buildings of its kind in the city, will be ready for occupancy next May. A permit for the erection of the building was issued yesterday [July 13], and the work of excavating has already begun. The church is to stand at 5569 Page avenue, on a lot 135 x 160 feet, and the building will cover practically all the ground. The lower floor will be occupied by the Sunday School and will have accommodations for seven hundred persons. The auditorium will seat one thousand. The building will cost one hundred thousand dollars. Fourth Church is scarcely a year and a half old.

Globe-Democrat.

CAMDEN, ME.

The opening of the new home of First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Camden, was held on Sunday morning, July 11. A large congregation attended the dedicatory service, and the interior of the edifice was decorated appropriately.

Although the Scientists have been using the church building for several years, it is only last April that they purchased the property from the Universalist society, and since acquiring it have made extensive alternations and improvements. The interior of the building has been entirely done over, the whole effect being softened by the light from windows of imported muffled glass. The rostrum has been rebuilt and two retiring-rooms, one at either end of the platform, have been added. Electric lights have been installed and the pulpit has been somewhat enlarged. A free reading-room, which is maintained by the society, is open to the public every day, with the exception of Sundays and holidays. Outside the edifice has been newly painted, considerable grading has been done on the grounds, and a new cement walk and steps add greatly to the general appearance of the new home.

Bangor Daily News.

BROOKLYN, N. Y.

The old church building of First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Lafayette avenue and Taaffe place, is for sale, because it is too small for the needs of the church. It has a seating capacity of five hundred and the congregation has grown to nearly double this number. The building has not been in active use for nearly a year, and the congregation has been using the Church of Our Father during this time, and even that building has scarcely been large enough.

The members will move into their handsome new church building at New York avenue and Dean street about the latter part of September. This is one of the finest church edifices in Brooklyn.—Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

Second Church of Christ, Scientist, in the Mission district, has had such a rapid growth in its congregation that it has become necessary to secure a new building. The attendance, which was large when the church was organized in November last, has steadily increased, especially at the Wednesday evening meetings, and the removal to a more commodious place of gathering has become mandatory. Those in charge of the church's interests have determined to move for the present into Kendrick's Hall, on Valencia street, near Sixteenth, where the auditorium is larger and the location superior to that now occupied. The hall has a seating capacity of six hundred. The reading-rooms are, however, to remain where they have been situated since the commencement of Scientist work in the Mission district.

San Francisco Chronicle.

JACKSON, MICH.

The services with which the Christian Science church was dedicated Sunday [July 11] did not differ from the regular services, except for a brief address by Frederick Chanel, First Reader, and a history of the local church by Mrs. Lena Miller, Second Reader. According to the usage of the denomination, the church, which has been in use since 1902, when it was purchased from the Hebrew congregation, could not be dedicated until it was free from debt. This having been accomplished, the dedication followed.

Mr. Chanel expressed the gratification of the members at the consummation of this part of their labor of love, and the pleasure felt in dedicating the church to God for the service of humanity. He also acknowledged the debt to Mrs. Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and writer of the Christian Science text-book, Science and Health. "As our Jackson organization," said Mr. Chanel, "is a branch of The Mother Church, we have therefore the same mission to perform. The practical and tangible proof of the utility of this church rests with its individual members. In proportion as its members manifest love for God and man,—love which is imaged forth in our lives in forms of spirituality, goodness, uprightness of character, and unselfishness; love which heals the sick and reclaims the sinner,—in that proportion will the misison of this church be fulfilled.

"But while we are rejoicing in the demonstration over the law of limitation, we must not lose sight of the fact that the material church is but an organization to meet the present-day need. The real church is in Mind, a structure of Truth and Love, for the time cometh when the church will exist in the affections alone, for in the words of the Scripture the time cometh 'when they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest.' 'For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.'"—Jackson Patriot.