Article October 11, 1919 Issue

Among the Churches

Current Notes

with contributions from Charles E. Jarvis

Manistee, Mich. —To enable its members to have a meeting place of their own, the Christian Science Society recently purchased the property at 111 Maple Street. The home has been remodeled, providing a small auditorium for church services in conjunction with a pleasant reading room.

Several years ago, through a case of healing, a few people in Parkdale became interested in Christian Science and began reading the Christian Science Lesson-Sermons at one of the homes there. Later, to accommodate friends in the city, regular Sunday services were held at a private home on Washington Street. In 1909, at the suggestion of a visiting Scientist that strangers would feel more free to come if services were held in a public place, rooms were rented and furnished at 67 Maple Street. The same year those who were attending regularly adopted a constitution and by-laws. In the year 1911, through the courtesy of the board of directors of the Unitarian Church, the Christian Science Society was given the privilege of holding services in their beautiful church edifice on Fifth Street. Although deeply appreciating these comfortable quarters which it enjoyed for several years, the society looked forward to the time when it would have a church home of its own, more centrally located, where a reading room could be maintained. This aspiration has been attained.—The News-Advocate.

New York, N. Y.—Old St. Bartholomew's, one of the famous churches of the city, at the southwest corner of Madison Avenue and Forty-fourth Street, which was abandoned by the congregation about a year ago for their new edifice in Park Avenue, has been sold to Fifth Church of Christ, Scientist. This congregation acquires the property for the purpose of building a new church on the site.—New York Post.

Send a comment to the editors

We'd love to hear from you!

Easily submit your testimonies, articles, and poems online.

Submit

Among the Churches

We'd love to hear from you!

Sign up for unlimited access