Church Dedications

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

Highland Journal

Highland, Illinois (Society).

Christian Science Society, Highland, Illinois, cordially invites the public to services dedicating its new edifice, located at Poplar and Lindenthal Avenue, to be held on Sunday, March 27, 1960, at 10.45 a.m. and 3.30 p.m.

In 1939, a small group of students of Christian Science began meeting for the purpose of reading the Lesson-Sermons, outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly, and holding services. These first services were held in private homes until growing attendance made it necessary and desirable to rent a place in which to meet. A building belonging to the Woodmen of the World was available and regular services were then held weekly from June until October....

The following February this group, having met all the requirements of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, organized as a society and was officially recognized as a branch of The Mother Church in April, 1940. In July of the same year a Sunday School was organized.

In the spring of 1953 a Reading Room was established, and in the following year the society moved to the Mueri Building at 700 Broadway.

In the fall of 1956 the members voted to purchase two lots at Poplar and Lindenthal on which to build a church, and construction was started October 13, 1958. The cornerstone was laid April 3, 1959. After the Mueri Building had been sold and before the new church building was ready for occupancy, services were held in rooms at the Bonn Inn. On August 9, 1959, the first service was held in the new edifice.

The society thanks its many friends, the Selina C. Cornish Fund, and the Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker Eddy for their generous help and interest in making this dedication possible.—Highland Journal (March 24, 1960).

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