Over five thousand people attended the simple and impressive dedicatory services of the church edifice of Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Minneapolis, Minn., on Sunday, September 20, 1903.
The services were held at 11 a.m. and 3.30 p.m., and at eight o'clock in the evening a lecture entitled "Christian Science: the Gospel of Righteousness and Health," was delivered by Carol Norton, C.S.D., member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship. The lecture was listened to with marked attention by an assemblage which taxed the utmost capacity of the church, over one thousand being turned from the doors.
After the opening service, which included the singing of Mrs. Eddy's beautiful hymn, "Shepherd, show me how to go," Mr. , the Second Reader, spoke in part as follows:—
