Church of Christ Scientist
While the First Church of Christ, Scientist, has seemingly been existence in Marion much longer, its charter was procured from the office of the secretary of state, April 28, 1908, under special enactment of 1901, concerning the organization and perpetuity of voluntary associations. Regular meetings of the society had been held from the Century year, and there is now a society in Fairmount, while people from others towns worship with the First Church in the Marion Conservatory of Music Auditorium. About 100 persons visit the reading room maintained by the First Church, and members take The Christian Science Monitor, daily; the Sentinel, weekly, and the Journal, monthly. The reading room is open two hours every afternoon and literature is sold or loaned as suits the occasion. "Science and Health with Key to Scriptures," by Mrs. Mary Baker, G. Eddy is the hand book, and it is read at all times in connection with the Bible. Once a year a speaker is brought from the Mother church in Boston, and the public is always invited to this special service. The regular Sunday service is in charge or readers, the first reader using Mrs. Eddy's book and the second reading the parallel selections from the Bible. The first reader conducts the Wednesday evening service, which is a testimony meeting. Healing is the doctrine taught and many people beside Scientists sometimes attend the services. The Scientists have just acquired a building site at White's Avenue and Fourth Street.
Centennial History of Grant County, Indiana 1812-1912
The Lewis Publishing Co., 1914