Article April 16, 1910 Issue

AMONG THE CHURCHES

with contributions from Anon

The edifice of Seventh Church of Christ, Scientist, 5318 Kenmore avenue, Edgewater, will be dedicated today [March 27]. Three services will be held, at 10:45 A.M., 3:30 P.M., and 7.45 P.M. The building has a seating capacity of more than sixteen hundred. The actual cost, including the ground on which it stands, was one hundred and nineteen thousand dollars. This is the sixth large Christian Science church edifice to be built in Chicago and dedicated free of debt since 1897. The aggregate cost of these buildings is between $650,000 and $700,000. The total membership of the nine Christian Science churches in Chicago is more than five thousand and the average total attendance at church services is considerably more than ten thousand.—Chicago Examiner.

The dedicatory address was in part as follows:—

Just three years ago today this Seventh Church of Christ, Scientist, of Chicago, held its first services, and it seems fitting that the dedication of our edifice, free from all indebtedness, should occur on this, its third anniversary. Seventh Church was organized in conformity with the history of church extension in this city, it being an outgrowth from Second Church, formed to further the Cause of Christian Science by relieving the crowded condition of that church, and by establishing another church in a more remote district of the city. That wisdom impelled and guided the supplying of the great needs of the Cause of Christian Science in this north division of the city, was evident from the first in the crowded condition of the Edgewater Country Club, where our services were held, and the fact that the hall continued to be well filled Sunday after Sunday was proof that many were ready and waiting for this opportunity to be provided. This condition compelled an early decision to build our own edifice, as there was no larger hall available. Accordingly, a little over four months after our organization as a church, we found ourselves in possession of a building lot, and with plains for an edifice fully approved by the church membership. Work was carried along rapidly, without hindrance from disturbing elements, and we were able to hold services in the building, though unfinished, from the first Sunday in January, 1908. Four months later, in April, the building was completed and formally opened.

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