Article June 15, 1899 Issue

The Chicago Press

SPECIAL TO THE TIMES-HERALD.

Boston, June 4.—More than six thousand people attended the four Communion services in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, the Mother Church, to-day, having come from the four ends of the earth to be present. They came for worship in the centre of the movement that has spread throughout the land. They came to meet the workers, which to them is a great privilege. When a man or a woman has been battling almost alone in his or her own little bailiwick for twelve months, he or she delights to touch elbows with a throng having a common belief.

The first service was held at ten o'clock, the others at twelve, three, and half past seven. Each time the church, which will not contain more than sixteen hundred people comfortably, was crowded to the doors, and at one time this afternoon it was thought an extra service would be necessary.

No wine nor bread was used in the communion. The participants sat silently praying and inwardly examining themselves to see whether or not they have done all they could to possess a mind like the mind of Christ.

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