Article June 6, 1953 Issue

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[Note: Extracts from reports prepared for the Reading Room Division by a Reading Room committee and a librarian in two branch churches]

Madison, Wisconsin

Our church edifice, which was built in 1929, was planned to provide a very beautiful room on the second floor for our Christian Science Reading Room. Although the church edifice is less than three blocks distant from the central business district, it became increasingly obvious that the Reading Room was not easily accessible to the public, and that it could better serve its mission elsewhere.

For a period of about five years, during and just after World War II, the Reading Room was located in temporary second-floor quarters in an office building in the capitol square. After this the members voted to maintain their Reading Room in uptown quarters, but increasingly high rentals in that district contributed to a reluctance to take the proper steps to acquire such quarters. Further, the fact that payment of the indebtedness of the church was not completed gave a feeling that our responsibilities were as much as we could accept until we had further demonstrated spiritual ability and possibility.

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