Article July 23, 1938 Issue

Among the Churches

Barrington, Illinois (First Church).—First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Barrington, Illinois, located at the corner of Main and Wool Streets, was dedicated on Sunday, January 9, 1938. It is generally known that Christian Science churches are not dedicated until the edifices are free from debt. Services, to which the public was invited, were held that day in the morning and afternoon.

The church building is a white frame structure of the second period colonial style. A four-column portico distinguishes the front. Inside, a foyer extends the width of the church. From this foyer doors open to the main auditorium, at the front of which is an elevated Readers' platform. The foyer walls are paneled with knotty pine, while those in the main auditorium are in light shades of green, gray, and ivory. The auditorium, which includes a balcony across the church above the foyer, has a seating capacity of two hundred and eighty.

Starting in 1910 with a small group of people meeting in private homes for the reading of the weekly Lesson-Sermon, in the Christian Science Quarterly, Christian Science activity in Barrington did not become organized until 1915, when a society was formed and received recognition from The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. For some time afterwards meetings were held in public halls.

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