Article January 27, 1912 Issue

AMONG THE CHURCHES

Probably the most impressive structure devoted to religious uses erected in Chicago in present years is the edifice of Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist, just completed at the northeast corner of Michigan boulevard and Forty-fourth street. One of the most impressive features of the building is the dome, filled with twenty-four beautiful golden windows and a novel indirect lighting system which floods the building with light without exposing the means to the audience. The windows are glazed with opalescent glass. There is a great organ, an echo organ and chimes, the combination representing a cost of eleven thousand five hundred dollars. The church has a seating capacity of twelve hundred and fifty and the land and building cost one hundred and forty-seven thousand dollars, including furnishings and organ.—Examiner.

A goodly number of visitors and members attended the first services held last Sunday forenoon and evening [Dec. 3] in the new edifice of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Virden, at the corner of Ninth avenue and Queen street. The harmony and beauty of color and outline which characterize the exterior of the church are well maintained in the interior. The walls above the dado are tinted in medium buff, and all the woodwork, as well as the dado, is finished in warm ivory enamel. The pleasing effect of the light color scheme is further enhanced by the abundance of light from the large amber-colored arched windows. In the evening the auditorium was brilliantly lighted by numerous gas brackets around the walls and one pendant over the readers' desk.—Empire-Advance.

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