Article September 20, 1924 Issue

Among the Churches

Northern Whig

Belfast, Ireland (First Church).—The Christian Science movement has grown with remarkable rapidity since it was founded in Boston by Mary Baker Eddy, and today branches of The Mother Church will be found in almost every corner of the globe. For many years a branch has been working in Belfast; first at Lombard Street, and later at 45 Royal Avenue, but the premises became too small to accommodate the members. A site was procured at the corner of University Avenue and Rugby Road, and here the first part, the Sunday school, of what will be a magnificent building, has been completed at a cost of about three thousand pounds. This sum has been raised by the voluntary subscriptions of the members and their friends. The school accommodates three hundred people, but it is estimated that the church will seat double that number. It is the idea of the members to lay out the grounds tastefully; and with a view to keeping them in proper order it has been decided to build a cottage for a gardener, who will act also as caretaker. ... There is no more comfortable room in the city than the new Sunday school, and every member of the large congregation present at the first service yesterday morning expressed admiration at the way the work had been carried out. There are board, Readers', and other rooms, and everything possible has been done for the best interest of the members.—Northern Whig.

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