Among the Churches

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Greeley, Colo .—The Christian Scientists dedicated their new church building Sunday afternoon [March 16] with appropriate dedicatory exercises.

Christian Science work in Greeley began as a direct result of healing work previously done, and nine persons met at a private home on July 27, 1902, to hear the Christian Science service read. During the following week an upper room in the Park Place Building was rented for services, and on August 27 of that year a Christian Science organization was formed. Soon the increasing attendance necessitated a change into more commodious quarters, and this move was therefore made on December 2, 1903, when the upper floor of the Sutor Building was rented. Here a reading room was also established.

In the spring of 1904 the first Christian Science lecture in Greely was delivered. Again progress dictated a move to larger quarters, and May 1, 1910, temporary meeting rooms were secured in the Centural Business College. These were used until November 15 of the same year, when the association moved to a room in The Farmers Trust Building, where services were held until the present church home was ready for occupancy. At this place the reading room was also conducted on a larger scale, and the lending library was started with the assistance of the Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy.

On March 3, 1912, the association organized into a church with a charter membership of thirty-nine, and took the name of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Greeley, Coloradio, incorporated under the laws of the state. By 1914 the need of a church home had become apparent and a building committee was appointed to secure a location. On October 14 of the same year the building committee was authorized to purchase the lot at the corner of Tenth Street and Eleventh Avenue for seventeen hudnred dollars. On May 11, 1916, it was decided to dispose of this lot, as a more desirable location could be secured at the corner of Eighth Avenue and Fourteenth Street. Here a parcel of ground 100 by 100 feet was purchased for twelve hundred dollars. On April 15, 1917, plans for a church building were presented to the members at a called meeting, but action thereon was delayed indefinitely. In the fall of 1917 church building was again taken up. Ground for the new edifice was broken January 7, 1918. Six months later, on July 7, the first service was held in the new structure, which cost about eight thousand dollars, and through the generous aid of the Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy is now free of debt. It has a seating capacity of two hundred and forty.

Greeley Republican.

Ontario, Canada.—The daily press has shown even more general fairness than in the past in almost invariably publishing replies to reports of attacks on Christian Science, or of misconceptions concerning it which they had reported. In fact, in several instances sermosn antagonistic to Christian Science were not reported by the newspapers, and so fell short of their wrong intentions. These attacks were incentives to the distribution committees in the localities concerned to pursue their good work. Over three hundred and forty references to Christian Science in newspaper articles or news items were reported during the year. Several of these were accounts of Camp Welfare and other activities of Christian Scientists. Forty replies were written, all but three of which were accepted for publication. The Ottawa Citizen has very frequently contained reprints from The Christian Science Monitor, and several other papers in the province do likewise, giving the Monitor credit for its excellent interpretation of events.—Committee on Publication.

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