Services at Cambridge, England.

It may interest your readers to know that Christian Science services are held in a public room every Sunday morning and evening, in the old university town of Cambridge, England.

For more than a year previously two friends had met in a private house to read the Quarterly Lesson. The reading had gradually developed into a full service. The readers were first joined by their own seven boys, and then by a slowly but steadily widening circle of interested friends. Two of them had already become interested in Christian Science in America.

When the little congregation had for one or two Sundays numbered over twenty, it was felt that a move must ere long be made. And yet we seemed in no hurry to move on, for our meetings in the pretty, cosy drawing-room, always beautiful with fresh flowers, so generously and joyously lent to Science, Sunday after Sunday, had been very happy ones, and perhaps there was even, with some of us, a little shrinking from publicity. How it came about, or who proposed it, we could none of us say, but it was suggested that inquiries should be made about public rooms with the result that we almost immediately found a large, bright, upper room, in a very central part of the town, well lighted, and provided with a piano, ready to be hired for a moderate sum. It seemed to have been just prepared to meet our need, and was engaged without delay.

We had made no special plan for our first meeting in this new building, but the fact of our move was mentioned casually to a Scientist friend in London. To our delight we were told that a party of Scientists would come over to join in our opening service; and when the happy day arrived, and we gathered together for the first time in our new home, on November 26, 1899, we felt permeated by new strength and vigor. The sun shone out brightly upon the few who met for morning worship, and seemed a fitting symbol of the sunshine in our hearts.

In the afternoon,—a more convenient time for most of our little band,—we held our real inaugural service. We were quite surprised to find ourselves a congregation of forty. The room seemed to be full of Love. So much had been prepared and given to us, without any effort on our own part, that all feelings of personal weakness and personal sense of every kind were swept away in a great wave of thankfulness. During the course of the service a telegram was read bringing loving greetings from First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Edinburgh, Scotland, holding their first public service on that same day.

At the close, friends were invited to remain a little longer, in order to hear or offer testimonies, the presence of our visitors from the London Church being an opportunity for encouragement not to be neglected. Then in prompt succession came words of dear and joyful witness to the power of Truth and Love, and these not from our visitors exclusively.

Since that day our services have been held regularly, morning and afternoon or evening, in the Victoria Assembly Rooms, Market Place. The hours are 11.15 A.M. and 6.30 p.m. The numbers have not again reached those of the first Sunday but there is a small and increasing nucleus, who find in Christian Science their daily food, and we know that the numbers will come, when we are ready for them.

One of our members has lovingly worked the cross and crown emblem in gold on white for our reading desk, and also a large banner for the end of our room, with the text from the Bible, "God is Love," also from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, page 490, "Divine Love always has met, and always will meet, every human need." Our work is to bring home the reality of these two glorious messages to every man, woman, and child who shall enter our room.

We have not yet inaugurated a Wednesday evening testimony meeting, but we are all eagerly looking forward to it, and know that we shall soon be rejoicing in it.

A. F. B., Cambridge, Eng.

Site Purchased at Kansas City, Mo.

Negotiations have just been concluded by Second Church of Christ, Scientist, of this city, for the purchase of a choice building site at the northeast corner of Thirtyfirst Street and Troost Avenue. The lot is located in a fine residence district; has a frontage of one hundred and thirty-five feet on Troost Avenue and one hundred and sixty-five feet on Thirty-first Street, and is probably the highest point in Jackson County.

Upon this ground the members of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, purpose, within a year, to erect a fine church edifice, suitable to meet the requirements of its rapidly growing congregation. Services are at present held in the auditorium of the Pepper building, opposite the public library.

The architecture of the new church will be Roman classic, and in appearance will be unlike any other religious edifice in Kansas City. The exterior will be of white Carthage stone, surmounted by a beautiful dome which will admit light into the auditorium. The church, when completed, will have a seating capacity of one thousand. It is said to be the consistent practice of Christian Scientists in the erection of church edifices to discharge all obligations as they accrue, and no church is dedicated while encumbered with debt, and that the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, will prove no exception to this rule.

Kansas City (Mo.) Times.

A Fourth Church in Chicago.

Christian Scientists are to establish a new church in Englewood. This will be the fourth of its kind in the city. A business meeting of the members of the First Church, Drexel Boulevard and Fortieth Street, will be held to-night, when a formal decision will be made. The matter has been under discussion for some time and there is every prospect that the meeting will declare for the establishment of the fourth church.

For some time past there has been a growing need for another church on the South Side. A year ago a second church was established on the North Side and a third church on the West Side. Recently the congregations of the First Church have been so large that the building has been crowded beyond its seating capacity. Last Sunday upward of two hundred persons stood in the aisles. It is expected that fully this many members will be found for the new church in Englewood.

The establishment of this fourth church will greatly relieve the First Church from its overcrowded condition.

Chicago Times Herald.

From Chadron, Neb.

First Church of Christ, Scientist, was organized in Chadron, Neb., January 31, 1899, with fifteen members.

The Sunday School was started in May, and in July a reading room was opened and is kept open every day, except Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Thirteen copies of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (nearly all five dollar bindings) have been sold and a great deal of literature has been loaned and given away. We had a lecture by Mr. Kimball last July and expect another from Judge Ewing in the near future.

Just before Christmas the members agreed to put the money they had intended to spend in material presents for each other in a church building fund. We also have sufficient funds for our next lecture. Our present membership is twenty-one.—Mrs. M. M. Lutz, Clerk.

A Word from Ireland.

There are four of us in this house, earnest students of Mrs. Eddy's works, and the seed is being sown steadily in Dublin. We meet together on Sundays and have our little service, which is a great help. There have been several good cases of healing, which show that divine Love is guarding and guiding us. Truly "The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice."

Constance Gibson, Dublin, Ireland.