The visible evidences of the fact that Christian Science has "come to stay "are rapidly multiplying. The solid structure which constitutes the Mother Church; the church edifice erected a number of years since at Oconto, Wisconsin (the first C. S. church building, we believe, ever erected); the fine structure at Denver, Colorado, erected several years since; the large church building owned and occupied by the Church of Christ, Scientist, corner of Prospect Avenue and Jersey Street, Buffalo, N. Y.; the substantial church building recently leased for a term of years, with the privilege of purchasing, by the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Toronto, Canada; the beautiful edifice recently completed and dedicated by the First Church of Christ, Scientist, at St. Louis, Mo.; and several others in different places, —all these bear witness to the fact that Christian Science has become an established and recognized religion, with a fixed tendency toward the formation and maintenance of churches and the owning and occupying of church buildings.
The latest demonstration along this line, we see by the New York papers, has occurred in that city, in the purchase by the First Church of Christ, Scientist there, of a large and eligible church property at a cost of $78,000. This was some years ago Dr. Heber Newton's church, but even it, it seems, is only a temporary abiding place for the C. S. church as appears from the following in the New York Evening Post:—
There was published in the Evening Post on Monday last a report of the sale of the old All Souls' Protestant Episcopal Church (Anthon Memorial) in West Forty-eighth Street, to a society of Christian Scientists. The purchase has directed attention to a religious organization of which there seems to be but little general knowledge, though a good deal of misinformation. Further inquiry into the details of the transaction referred to show that it was the "First Church of Christ, Scientist," that bought the property, and that it paid $78,000 for it. It will be the first church edifice owned by the sect in this city, but is only a temporary abiding place, according to one of the representatives of the church, in its progress towards a permanent house of worship in an up-town church and institutional section of the city.
