Branch Church News

First Church Of Christ, Scientist, Wichita, Kan. , located at the corner of Lawrence Avenue and Second Street, was dedicated Sunday, August 18.

From the Canon City Times we extract the following interesting account of the dedication of what this paper calls "the pretty chapel" of First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Canon City, Col. In addition to the account in the Times we also publish, in its order, the interesting address of Mrs.

Sunday, June 2, 1901, First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Grand Island, Neb. , held their opening service in their new place of worship, corner Kimball Avenue and Second Street.

Sunday, July 14, Third Church of Christ, Scientist, of Chicago, was dedicated with appropriate and interesting services. There were four services held to accommodate the large attendance.

The new church edifice of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Beatrice, Neb. , was dedicated Sunday, May 26, 1901.

In the Sentinel of March 21, 1901, we republished from the Logansport Daily Pharos an interesting account of the dedication of the Christian Science Chapel built at Logansport, Ind. We had hoped to republish that account, together with the letter from Rev.

The San Bernardino Sun contains the following account of the dedication of the Christian Science Church edifice at Riverside, Cal. , on Sunday morning, February 24, 1901:— A carload of Christian Scientists went from here Sunday morning to Riverside to attend the dedication of their new church, and the party was joined at Colton by another carload from Los Angeles, Ontario, and along the line.

The following account of the dedication of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Toledo, O. , appeared in the Toledo Times, Monday, April 8, 1901:— Yesterday was a day long to be remembered by the Christian Scientists of Toledo.

" More than ten thousand people," said the Record-Herald of April 8, 1901, "participated yesterday in the dedication of the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, at Wrightwood and Pine Grove Avenues. At eight o'clock in the morning, an hour before the commencement of the day's quadruple service, groups of worshipers began to assemble in the church.

First Church of Christ, Scientist, held its opening services in its new church edifice, on Twenty-third Street, Sunday, July I, and there were members of this denomination from other fields in the city to share in the event. While the Church of Christ, Scientist, has organizations in most of the cities of Oregon, Washington, and California, this church building is the first owned by the denomination on the Pacific Coast.