Article January 7, 1956 ISSUE

Church Dedications

Note: Christian Science churches are dedicated only when free from debt.

Mt. Adams Sun

White Salmon, Washington (Society).

Dedication services were held ... Sunday, June 5, forty-one years after a small group of students held their first Christian Science meeting on the same site in April, 1914. The first meeting of record was held in the White Salmon IOOF hall March 10, 1920. On April 30, 1920, the group decided to rent the Powers Building for church and Sunday School services, also a Reading Room.

Arrangements were made in April of 1929 to purchase a building from the trustees of the Independent Church of God. This structure on Church Street was remodeled for Sunday School and church services. A Reading Room was opened upstairs in the Johnson Building (now the Oregon-Washington Telephone Building).

In April, 1930, application to become a society was accepted by The Mother Church. On June 26, 1936, the society sponsored its first free Christian Science lecture in the Masonic Temple.

In May, 1938, a member gave the society the lot on which the church edifice now stands. A building fund was started in March of 1940, to which the Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy and the Selina C. Cornish Fund subscribed the balance required to complete the building.

The first services were held July 24, 1944. While the building was debt free at this time, it was decided to landscape the grounds before dedication.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the many nonmembers for their friendly assistance and contributions.

Mt. Adams Sun June 9, 1955

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