Article October 31, 1914 Issue

Among the Churches

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YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.—At Spring and Bryson streets is a large brick building which attracts much attention from the visitors to Youngstown who are being shown over the handsome North Hill section, and perhaps more inquiries are made regarding it than concerning any other building in the city. It looks like a church, and still is very unlike one, because at every window is a window-box filled with beautiful flowers, carefully tended, and adding to the building a touch of domesticity entirely foreign to the ordinary church. No religious emblem of any kind is to be seen, but the place is clean and bright with the touch of women's hands and the atmosphere of a home. This building is the edifice of First Church of Christ, Scientist, and is the headquarters of the Christian Science movement in Youngstown. Somehow one is led to wonder whether older churches could not, like this one, be made more attractive to worshipers and more effective in teaching a love of that beauty which is nature's everlasting and ever-changing prayer to the Most High.—The Telegram.

LOS ANGELES, CAL.—So great has been the growth of the Christian Science church-membership in Los Angeles that plans have nearly been completed for the moving of the Fourth Church congregation to Highland Park and the organization of two new churches. These new churches are to be formed in the Westlake and the Angeleno Heights sections. The congregation of the present Fourth Church is meeting in the Friday Morning Club House, 940 South Figueroa street. So many of the members of this congregation live in Highland Park that it is planned to transfer its meeting place to that section.—Los Angeles Herald.

WINCHESTER, MASS.—All the legal formalities having been complied with, First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Winchester, Mass., has come into possession of one of the most beautiful church building sites in this community. The entire parcel of land has an area of a little more than eighteen thousand square feet, and comprises two lots, one at the northwest corner of Washington street and Mystic Valley parkway, containing over five thousand square feet, the other, which adjoins, containing a little over twelve thousand square feet.—The Winchester Star.

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