AS in many other places, it was a copy of the Christian Science text-book which first proclaimed the "good tidings" in Holland. This was in 1900. As a result of the physical healing which the study of the book brought, a few friends of the owner became interested, and soon some six or seven earnest seekers for Truth met regularly in a private house to read the Lesson-Sermon. This number gradually increased, as these pioneers began to work for others, and in 1903 it became necessary to engage rooms in Praktizijnshoek 4, to be used for the Sunday service and for reading rooms, which, at first, were kept open only a few hours a week. The attendance at the services continually increased, so that in 1905 Mercurius hall, Noordeinde, was hired for the Sunday services and the reading rooms at Praktizijnshoek 4 were opened daity.
On Nov. 1, 1905, First Church of Christ, Scientist, The Hague, was founded with ten charter members, and in August, 1906, the church was chartered under the state laws. Mercurius hall soon proved too small, and on New Year's day, 1907, the Vereeniging hall, Willemstraat, was taken, and two years later the hall in the Oramje Societeit, Prins Hendrikplein, where the services are still held. Since 1907 testimony meetings have been held every Wednesday. The Sunday school was started in 1905 with one pupil; at present there are six classes. In 1907 the children of the Sunday school raised the money for a new harmonium, which is still used at the services.
The first Christian Science lecture in Holland was given in the autumn of 1906, and since then seven more lectures have been delivered in The Hague, which have proved a great help to the field and have attracted more numerous and appreciative audiences every year. In 1907 a committee on publication was elected, whose work is rapidly increasing, and after some distribution work had been done by this committee, a distribution committee was organized, which has been very helpful in spreading abroad the Christian Science literature.
