Article September 10, 1949 Issue

Of Good Report

Spreading Christian Science in the Community

A branch Church of Christ, Scientist, in a town in the eastern United States reports the following inspiring results to be obtained when the desire for a church home is uppermost in the thought of its members.

The group, which organized as a Christian Science Society in the fall of 1947, had for several months been holding services in second-floor rooms which were not altogether desirable. This forced them to lift their concept of church above the material surroundings, tested their consecration, and made them constantly alert to the possibility of a more desirable location.

One day, when several of the members of the society were riding along a highway some miles from town, they noticed a tiny white chapel, with arched doorway and small steeple, resting on a high foundation. The building, which was boarded up, was found to be for sale, together with the property on which it stood. The group, however, had no use for the land, which was eight miles from town, nor had they the several thousand dollars needed to purchase it. Some months later the highway department bought the land for its expansion program, and this opened the way for the society to purchase the building for less than a quarter of the price first quoted for the land and the building.

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