THE first services held in the new edifice of First Church of Christ, Scientist, at South and Park Streets were held Sunday morning [August 3] at eleven o'clock. The services were conducted by the First Reader, Miss Downer, and the Second Reader, Mrs. H. C. Potter. The music was especially good, solos being rendered by Miss, Julia McDonald and Miss Marion Carder.
The services opened with a voluntary by Mrs. John Windoes and Miss Carder, followed by a Scripture reading from the eighth chapter of First Kings, silent prayer, and Lord's Prayer. Mrs. Harry C. Potter then gave a very interesting talk upon the history of the church of Christ, Scientist, in this city.
"It seems fitting," said Mrs. Potter, "that at this first service in our new church edifice, we should pause for a moment to recount the events which have led up to the present time. Six years ago, in the spring of 1896, three or four were gathered together each Sunday at the residence of two of their number for the purpose of learning something more of the teachings of Christian Science, which we but little understood, but which had brought to us all strength and peace and deliverance from much of pain and sorrow, which had once seemed to us inevitable.
