Among the Churches

Current Notes

Boston, Mass.—The First Church of Christ, Scientist. Services (during July and August): 10:45 a.m.; Sunday School, 10:45 a.m.; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., in the church edifice, Norway, Falmouth, and St. Paul Streets. The church is open to visitors Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Reading rooms: Little Building, corner of Tremont and Boylston Streets (fourth floor); open daily, except Sunday and Wednesday, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. International Trust Company Building (second floor), 45 Milk Street, near Devonshire, opposite post office; open daily, except Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Coolidge Corner Building, 1316 Beacon Street, Brookline; open daily, except Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Painesville, Ohio.—The dedicatory services of First Church of Christ, Scientist, were held Sunday, May 5.

Painesville Herald.

Beaumont, Texas.—The paying off of all indebtedness made it possible for the Christian Scientists of this city to dedicate their church yesterday morning [May 5]. The church building, furnishings, and lot represent an investment of about $22,500.—Beaumont Enterprise.

Texarkana, Ark.—The beautiful little bungalow church building of gray stucco, trimmed with white, and costing approximately six thousand dollars, which has just been erected at 612 Walnut Street by the Christian Science Society, was dedicated at the Sunday service [May 12].

The Christian Science movement started in Texarkana in 1901. A church was first organized, but as the movement was not strong enough to comply with the by-laws of The Mother Church, this organization was disbanded, and in 1910 the present society was organized. This society first met at the corner of Seventh Street and State Line, moving from that location in February, 1912, to Mount Sinai Temple, where it remained until May, 1913, when the society moved to rooms in the State National Bank Building, and from there to the Heilbron Building, which they have occupied until the present.—The Texarkanian.

New York, N. Y.—Three services marked the opening [May 26] of the new building of Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, at 178th Street and Fort Washington Avenue. The building cost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The church is the outgrowth and development of a work started in 1894 by two students of Mrs. Eddy, on the West Side, near Eightieth Street. On November 4, 1898, a charter was obtained for West Side Church of Christ, Scientist, which name was retained until June 18, 1901, when it was changed to Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist.

The church was moved on September 27, 1911, to a large hall at the corner of St. Nicholas Avenue and 181st Street, which was outgrown in a short time. The northeast corner of Fort Washington Avenue and 178th Street was purchased for seventy thousand dollars. The Sunday school portion of the structure has been in use since August 4, 1914, but the finishing touches of the main auditorium, which has a seating capacity of twelve hundred and fifty, were not given until Saturday afternoon [May 25].

New York Telegram.

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