Article January 5, 1952 Issue

Extending Our Invitation to All

[Note: Extracts from reports prepared for the Reading Room Division by a branch church executive board and a Reading Room committee representing two branch churches.]

For the purpose of expanding and establishing a street-floor Reading Room which would better aid in spreading the healing message of Christian Science in this area the two branch churches jointly undertook the maintenance of the one downtown Reading Room.

A locations committee, composed of members from both churches, worked earnestly toward the fulfilling of this purpose. For three years this committee followed each opening which might lead to obtaining a street-floor location suitable for a central Christian Science Reading Room.

In January, 1951, a new committee, also composed of members of both churches, met to arrange for an inspirational meeting of the members of their churches. This new committee, known as the expansion committee, was called into being to support the work of the locations committee. Its members were to do individual metaphysical work toward an expanding concept of Reading Room. The inspirational meeting held the following month was to inform and arouse dormant thinking concerning the need for an accessible, inviting, street-floor Reading Room in a city of this size, in conformity with a letter from The Christian Science Board of Directors dated July 30, 1948.

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