Article March 14, 1936 Issue

Among the Churches

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San Mateo Times

San Mateo, California (First Church).—Members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, San Mateo, dedicated their edifice at El Camino Real and Monte Diablo, at three well-attended services on Sunday, October 20, 1935. Besides the usual congregation, visitors from San Francisco, the entire peninsula, and other cities were present.

In 1907, seven students of Christian Science started a Christian Science Society, which included a Sunday school. The first services were held in Frobel Hall, then in the new Masonic Building, which in 1910 had just been erected. In 1919, the purchase of their present lot was made, and 1921 found the first unit open for services. As early as September, 1924, the need of a larger auditorium was felt. The first unit accordingly was converted into a Sunday school and the newly completed church was opened for services, Sunday, July 22, 1928. Dedication was made after the final payment by the church group for the property and the church edifice. Though beautiful in appearance, to its members the edifice is only an outward manifestation of the true "Church," which their Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, defines in part on page 583 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," as "that institution, which affords proof of its utility and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick."

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