CROWDS AT THE SERVICES

The new building erected at the corner of Simcoe and Caer Howell Streets, and which is to be known as the first Church of Christ. Scientist, was formally opened for worship yesterday. The edifice cost about but if was $26,000, but it was announced yesterday that not one dollar of debt exists upon it. This fact, coupled with the attendance at the three services, which numbered in the aggregate about three thousand persons, of whom some two hundred came from outside towns and cities, demonstrates that the Christian Science movement has made surprising progress, not only in Toronto, but throughout Canada. The appearance and demeanor of those who were present at yesterday's services was somewhat of a revelation to persons who recall that up to a very recent period terms of ridicule and derision were applied to the believers in the tenets of Christian Science. The worshipers at the new church yesterday made up a congregation which for respectability and intelligence might compare with that of any orthodox church in the city. They seemed to be composed of people of the middle classes and respectable artisans, with quite a sprinkling of persons of wealth and refinement.—The Mail and Empire, Toronto, June 20.