Article July 22, 1911 Issue

AMONG THE CHURCHES

On Sunday, July 9, was consummated the consolidation of the two church organizations in Columbus, which was lovingly commenced when the former Christian Science Society met with First Church on Easter Sunday, in response to an invitation extended by First Church. Hearing that the society would soon be seeking other quarters, as its place of meeting had been sold, and a joint committee of the two organizations being then in consultation as to the advisability of a consolidation of the two organizations, the members of the committee on behalf of First Church extended to the members of the committee from the society a cordial invitation to attend the services of First Church until definite arrangements had been made.

The invitation was unanimously accepted and on Easter Sunday the members of the society attended First Church in a body. At a subsequent meeting of the joint committee of six a resolution was passed which proposed that the society should disband its organization, first recommending its members for membership in First Church, and that First Church receive into membership at the communion service all persons so recommended by the society. The next evening after this action of the joint committee, both organizations at separate meetings unanimously adopted the recommendations of the joint committee, communicating their action, each to the other, by telephone, before either meeting adjourned. As a result of this self-consecrating action on the part of the individuals comprising the various committees, boards, and membership involved in this momentous undertaking for the cause of Truth, there was admitted to First Church on July 9, in the largest class in its history, as communicants and members of that church, practically the entire membership of the former Christian Science Society of Columbus. The occasion was one of great thanksgiving among the members of both organizations.

It is due to the society to mention the fact that in effecting the consolidation, the readers, trustees, and all officers of the church and Sunday school, voted themselves out of office, and that no provision was made for any of them to receive official recognition in First Church. It is due First Church to say that, without waiting for the consolidation to be formally completed, it placed on three of its important committees representatives of the society to aid in the extension of the united field work in Columbus. The members of the society accepted the organization of First Church as they found it; First Church accepted the members of the society as it found them; henceforth to be one, in Christ.

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