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THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST

in their relation to the city itself, and it certainly looks imposing.

One thing is certain: for a religion which has been organized only thirty yeavs, and which erected its first church only twelve years ago, Christian Science has more fine church edifices to its credit in the same time than any other denomination in the world, and they are all paid for.


[Boston Evening Transcript]

THE CHIMES

The chimes for the new Christian Science temple are worthy of the dome. The effect on all within earshot is quite remarkable. They say that workingmen stopped in the street and stood in silent admiration while the chimes were being tested the other day. Millet's “Angelus” had living reproductions on every corner in the neighborhood.


[Boston Post]

MAGNIFICENCE OF THE ORGAN

The new church is replete with rare bits of art, chosen from the works of both ancient and modern masters, but there is nothing more wonderful than the organ which has been installed. Nowhere in the world is there a more beautiful, more musical, or more capable instrument. In reality it is a combination of six organs, with four manuals, seventy-two stops, nineteen couplers, nineteen adjustable combination pistons, three balanced swells, a grand crescendo pedal, seven combination pedals, and forty-five hundred and thirty-eight pipes, the largest of which is thirty-two feet long. Attached to the organ is