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Readers Elected in New York

A RICH, retired New York business man has been chosen First Reader in the new Christian Science Church at Ninety-sixth Street and Central Park West. He is Edwin T. Hatfield, who has been a student in the New York City Christian Science Institute under Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson.

His assistant, or Second Reader, will be Miss Sibyl Huse, daughter of the late Colonel Caleb Huse of West Point. Miss Huse has been a sister pupil of her elderly superior in the Christian Science school.

According to the by-laws of the sect new Readers are elected for each congregation every three years. Those retiring this year are Miss Laura C. Lyman, First Reader, and Steuart C. Rowbottom, Second Reader.

Mr. Hatfield is the son of a noted New York clergyman, who officiated for some twenty-three years at the Seventh Presbyterian Church, at Broome and Ridge Streets, and afterward at the North Presbyterian Church, at Ninth Avenue and Thirty-first Street.

Mr. Hatfield's business life commenced in the office of his uncle, Moses Taylor, who was one of the ablest and most respected merchants of his day. He was incidentally associated with Cyrus W. Field in financing the laying of the first Atlantic cable.

Later in life Mr. Hatfield became president of the Lackawanna Iron & Coal Company, of Scranton, Pa. He has long since, however, retired from active commercial business.

Mr. Hatfield is one of the oldest members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York, and has been chairman of its board of trustees for more than fourteen years. He also held office at one time in the capacity of Second Reader. The New York Evening Journal.

List of Members.

The List of Members of The Mother Church, including those admitted June 6, 1905, is now on sale. Single copy, 50 cents; six copies to one address, $4.50. Address all orders to The Christian Science Publishing Society, 250 Huntington Avenue, Boston Mass.

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