The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-07

1 first floor is taken up Dy directors ana | committee rooms. The great organ is one | of the impressive features of the edifice. | It is exceeded in size only by the organ
 on exhibition at the St. Louis exposi- l tion, which was said to be the largest in | the world. It consists of six complete
 organs which work in unison; it has l four manuels, seventy-two stops, nine l teen complete and nineteen adjustable | pistons, three ballast swells, grand | crescendo pedal, seven combination pedals
 and 453S pipes, the largest being thirty
 two feet long. It Is operated by elec- | tricity and has an electrical keyboard. l The church has membership of 5000. | A rule of the Christian Science church | that has never been violated is that every | church edifice must be paid for before 1 it is dedicated It wil be seen that this l it is dedicated. It will be seen that this | of the Boston church, for the total wealth l of that congregation is estimated at from | $S, ,000 GOO to $12,0G00O0. It is undoubtedly 1 ono of the wealthiest church corpora | tions in the United States. The edifce ranking second, in point of cost, to the Mother church, Is the | First Church of Christ. Scientist, of New | York at Central Park West and Nine | ty-sixth street. The total cost of this | building is said to have been S1, ,1S5, 900. l It has one of the finest organs ever built in this country. three elevators spiral staircase without apparent sup
 ports thirty rooms devoted to treatment,
 reception rooms reading rooms, rooms for the readers and the trustees and committees One of the features of the
 church is it's immense chandeliers of
 quadruple gold plate.
 So much for this country. Let us follow
 Mrs. Eddys cult into other lands. In
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 its spread has been fast, despite the obstacles It now has q fine church of it's own in the British metropolis with two other congregations and more than forty healers. The first Englishman of
 note to become interested in Christian Science was the Earl of Dunmore, who
 is now one of Mrs. Eddy's most devout adherents. Lady Victoria Murray, who declares that she was cured of tuber- cuioss by Christian Science treatment wa also among the first converts to the new religion. Soon afterward she gave up her social life and, going to Man
 chester, founded a church. which now
 has 600 members. With London as a 1 base, Christian Science has spread out ] in all directions in England. There are
 churches in Bedfordshire, Buckingham [ shire, Hampshire, Herefordshire. Kent, Lancashire Middlesex. Norfolk, Noting | ham, Surrey, Sussex, Yorkshire and l Worcestershire.
 The new cult has also made progress in Scotland and Ireland. Glasgow, Edin- burgh Dublin and Belfast have their con- | gregations. The church is also represent ed In Berlin and is making rapid steps , forward here. As in England, the inva- sion was vigorously resisted but with no success. Even the Emperor fought the newcomer in the field of religions put his opposition failed of its object
 Mrs Eddy's followers have congrega- tions in Lutherstrasses, Dresden, Han
 over, Frankfort and many other places brief glance at the records of the church will show that besides in the f places already named 1t is represented in Eallarat Australia; Brisbane Australia; ; Guernsey, Channel Islands, England Hague, Holland; Johannesburg, South Africa; Liverpool, England; Melbourne,
 Australia; Mexico City. Paris France, and Sidney, Australia. There are headers
 to be found in Hong Kong the Philip
 pines Italy, Alaska. Switzerland and in many tiny villages throughout the world L There is a Christian Science church
 in every state in the union and 32S2 prac-
 Using headers in the United States and
 Canada, and PA in foreign countries.
 Numbered among Mrs. Eddy's adherents are distinguished Jursts, scholars, play wrights, and men of all professions And all this was sprung from a move ment started by woman unknown thirty years ago. By those who remember Mrs Eddy in her younger days she is described in homely sort of way as being queer. She was always dabbling in philosophy. | logic and moral science and the persons l with whom she came in contact were not | the kind to understand these things. In
 describing how her mind was turned in | this direction, Mrs. Eddy has said: l When l was very little I used to hear ! voices They called me. They spoke my
 name, Nary Mary!' I used to go to my | mother and say: Mother. did you call | me? What do you want? and she would 1 say. No, child I didn't call you Then
 I would go away to play, but the voices would call again distinctly.
 | There was day when my cousin, whom l dearly loved was playing with me, and she. too, heard the voices. She l said, Your mothers calling you, Mary,
 and when l didn't go I could hear them again. But I knew that 1t wasn't mother.
 My cousin didn't Fnow what to make of
 my behavior, because I was always and
 obedient child. Why Mary she repeat | ed. what do you mean by not going?" | When she heard the voices again she l went to my mother and my cousin said 1: | Didn't you call Mary?' My mother asked l if heard voices and I said did Then 1 she asked my cousin If she heard them.
 
 She talked with me that night and told me when I heard them again-no matter l where l was to say: What wouldst | Thou. Lord? Here I am.' That is what | Samuel said, you know, when the Lord called him. She told me not to be afraid, 1 but to surely answer.
 "The next day I heard voices again, but | was too frightened to speak. I felt badly. Mother noticed 1t and asked me I If I had heard the call again. When | l said I was too frightened to say what 1 she had told me she talked with me and ! told me that the next time I must surely ansyer and not fear.
 When the voice came again I was in bed. I answered as quickly as I could. | as she told me to do. and when I had | spoken a curious lightness came over | me. l remember 1t so welll It seemed l to me I was being lifted off my little bed, and put out my hands and caught | the sides.
 Prom that time I never heard the voices. They ceased"
 Everyone has read of her marriages, how she practiced healing, and how she | came to found her church. The first con- | gregation was estab isled in the city of Lynn. but the movement grew and Mrs | Eddy removed to Boston. In 1879 the con i gregation which Mrs. Eddy had founded | in her new home voted to build church ! to be called the Church of Christ, {! Scientist--the first such edifice ever built. reader is already familiar with the mar l vellous success that has crowned her ef- forts.