Article September 22, 1962 Issue

Of Good Report

The Member's Part in Church Building

The experiences which many branch churches and societies have had in building edifices, remodeling structures, or purchasing property on which to build attest that every member has a responsibility in the success of such an undertaking. When through earnest daily prayer and study the spiritual foundation of church building is discerned and understood by the members, proper human steps appear.

Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in a letter to a newly dedicated church, "The praiseworthy success of this church, and its united efforts to build an edifice in which to worship the infinite, sprang from the temples erected first in the hearts of its members —the unselfed love that builds without hands, eternal in the heaven of Spirit" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 195).

A church in Los Angeles proved that the success of its building project resulted from the active spiritual thinking of its members. Something of its experience follows:

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