Church Dedications

Niagara Falls Gazette

Niagara Falls, New York (First Church).

"The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible" [Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures p. 199]. Inspired with these words by the Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy members of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Niagara Falls, will dedicate their achievement on May 27. The occasion will mark the dedication of the congregation's church building which was erected in 1927. The 35 years between completion of the building and dedication is explained in that a Christian Science church is dedicated only after the mortgage on the building is paid off. ...

The origin of the Christian Science movement in Niagara Falls reaches back into the last years of the 19th Century, to the year 1895. For at that time the lone student of Christian Science lived in the city. Within the next few years others interested in the movement trickled into Niagara Falls. The small group ... by 1901 began to hold services in a private home. Public meetings and lectures were soon held. In 1907, by unanimous vote of its members, Christian Science Society, Niagara Falls, was incorporated ... as First Church of Christ, Scientist. ...

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