The largely increased number of Scientists in many localities brings with it desire for churches, or public Sunday services in some form. In many instances, Scientists have been deterred from realizing these desires by an erroneous impression about a pastor or trained speaker as a necessary adjunct. So few of them have learned the "new tongue" that the supply is not equal to the demand.
For the encouragement of those who are in this situation, and as an answer to many inquiries concerning the recently organized church in Chicago, something of our experience is here related.
Recognizing that Science and Health is both our Teacher and Healer, we resolved to take it into our pulpit and make it our Preacher also, by reading selections from it, together with appropriate passages from the Scriptures in place of a sermon. This plan we adopted as an experiment, believing it would result in unity of thought and exclusion of error. The result has exceeded our most sanguine expectations. In two months both church and Sunday school have doubled in number. This large body of regular attendants is united in the opinion that a complete and satisfactory public Sunday service, in this way, has been compassed. It has thus demonstrated that a Christian Science church can be carried on successfully and profitably without a regular speaker.
