Article April 12, 1913 Issue

AMONG THE CHURCHES

CURRENT NOTES.

Newton, Mass .—First Church of Christ, Scientist, Newton, Mass., was granted a charter Jan. 23, 1913, the charter membership of the organization being made up of members of The Mother Church who for the most part had been attending services in Boston. Services are being held in Player's hall, Washington street, West Newton, which has been newly and tastefully decorated. The first service was held Feb. 2, 1913, when the seating capacity of the hall, about four hundred and fifty, was taxed. The size of the congregation at each service since would indicate that the community is much interested in the healing message of Christian Science. Pleasant rooms have been provided for the rapidly growing Sunday school, and the church will maintain a reading-room at 297 Walnut street, opposite Masonic building, Newtonville.—

Correspondence.

Melbourne, Australia.—Our Sunday and Wednesday evening meetings have been crowded since the last lectures, for many strangers are coming in, and we have opened the reading-room on Thursday from seven till nine in the evening. The attendant of the reading-room brought under my notice three cases of healing within the last two months as the result of the reading of the literature. The first was that of a man with an internal trouble pronounced incurable by six doctors, who was advised to read a wonderful book of the Christian Scientists. He called and was shown into the reading-room, where he read for about twenty minutes and found that something had happened. He got up to go out, when the attendant asked, "Don't you feel well?" and he answered, "I was in desperate condition when I came in, but this wonderful book has healed me." So the attendant lent him a copy of Science and Health to take home. The second case was that of one suffering from rheumatism, who borrowed the book from the lending library and came in and reported that he was free from all suffering. The third case, a woman suffering from spinal trouble of seven years' standing, which was getting worse, was healed by reading an article in the Sentinel. Surely it is time the world awakened sufficiently out of its dream to give Mrs. Eddy and Christian Science credit for being able to do what materia medica has failed to accomplish!—

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