The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-05

The auditorium seats 600 people, with
seating capacity for 100 more in ada
cent rooms. The pulpit and readers
stand is in the corner of the audito-
rum, with a pipe organ in the rear.
In the rear end of the building is a
committee room, IA feet by 26 feet. At
one end of the committee room and in
the rear of the pulpit is the readers
room, 10 feet by Is feet, and at the
other end of the committee room is the
rear hall and stairway leading to the
gallery. Off the gallery and in the
front end of the church, over the cor
ridor, is a large reception parlor, II
feet by 80 feet, which opens out on the
gallery without doors. Off one end Of
the parlor is a retiring room, II feet
by 10 feet. The edifice will be seated
with oak pews and the auditorium and
committee rooms will be finished in
ivory white paint The front corri-
dor and rear hall will be in natural
wood finish.
The church is especially desirable
and attractive by reason of its large
front corridor. two large front exits,
its committee rooms, library and other
rooms for private use. The building
will be heated by two hot air furnaces
and lighted by electricity. The ceiling
is arched with a dome, the center of
which is SO feet from. the floor. The
roof will be supported by steel trusses.
The cost of the church and grounds
will be something near $40, 900. 1t will
be paid for in cash as built and dedi-
Gated without debt, one of the points
of Christian Science doctrine being
that the members will not go in debt
for church buildings.
Architect w. E. Ware of this city
drew the plans and specifications, and
it is expected the building will be COM
pleted this fall. and without doubt it
will be one of the most substantial and
attractive churches in the west.
SCIENTIST CHURCH GROWTH.
Of late the Christian Science move
ment has become so marked all over
the country that the denomination
finds itself in the midst of church
building period, as matter
of necessity. Ten years ago
the movement was begun in
Salt Lake City by half a dozen stu
dents. who commenced to meet and
study Christian Science By the middle
of 1890 their numbers had grown to 40
or 80, at which time Mrs. NJ. A. Bagley,
c. S. D., one of Mrs, Eddy's loyal stu
dents, located here and was given
charge of the meetings
The need for church Or
ganization soon became apparent. In
August, 1891, in the rooms of
Mrs. NJ. A Bagley, S57 East
First South street, this Church of
Christ Scientists of Salt Lake City,
Utah." was organized. The first band
of Christian Scientists in Salt Lake
City developed into and organized this
church. It's articles of Incorporation
were filed for record in the county
clerks office Aug. o. 1891, the same
day that the organization was COM
pleted. The charter members, Is in
rumber, are: Mrs. NJ. A. Bagley, C. s.
d., speaker of the church; Mrs. S. T.
Dunford, Mrs. F. D. Kimball. Mr.. H
Lizzie R. Coates, Mr.. B. R. Hickok,
Mrs. Alevia Hickok. Miss Retta Young,
Mrs. Clara Reilly, Mrs. Sarah l.. Good
win, Mrs. Susie Schaeffer and Mrs.
Georgia Yankee.
The church having outgro.yn the par
lors where the meetings were held,
rented the old /. O. o. F. hall. in the
Union block, on Main street, and moved
into it in January, 1891. When the new
1. o. o. F. building on Market street
was completed the church moved with
their Odd Fellow friends to the new
building, with an audience of from 70
TO 100. In this building the first Chris
tan Science reading room and dispen-
sary was opened, and Christian Science
literature was on the table free TO the
public. The church remained there I'M
til it became necessary to get larger
quarters, and on May T. 1896, the He
brew temple, 235 Fourth East street,
one of the finest church edifices in the
city, was leased. The church, with
membership of 20S. and an audience of
nearly 400, viii remain there until it
removes into its new home this fall.
FORM OF SERVICE.
An interesting feature in the Chris
tan Science church is the original way
services are conducted. The pastor in
all the churches is the Bible and the
Christian Science text book, Science |
and Health. with Key to the Scrip |
lures" by Rev. Mary Baker Eddy.