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Christian Science
in Southampton
Early 1900s
1925
1929-1930
1968
Present Day
In the early years of the 20th century, a few dedicated Christian Scientists gathered in a Southampton home to hold Christian Science services. These services in turn formed the Christian Science Society of Southampton, which was incorporated on July 22, 1925. In the same year, the present church on the corner of Cameron and Pine Streets, Southampton, was purchased. In 1929, construction of the church began. The building was completed in January 1930.
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Upon application of the Society for incorporation as a Branch Church, the Directors of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts, acknowledged First Church of Southampton as a Branch Church on June 1, 1930. The church was dedicated and incorporated on August 6, 1930.
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By 1968, the church’s membership and attendance had grown to the point that two Sunday services were necessary in the summer and the church undertook a program of expansion. The seating capacity was nearly doubled, the Sunday School was enlarged, and a nursery for pre-Sunday School pupils was added.
The Daily Prayer
"Thy kingdom come;" let the reign of divine Truth, Life, and Love be established in me, and rule out of me all sin; and may Thy Word enrich the affections of all mankind, and govern them!
From Church Manual of The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts
By Mary Baker Eddy
The Tenets of
Christian Science
1. As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.
2. We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's image and likeness.
3. We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.
4. We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death.
5. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter.
6. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.
From Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures
By Mary Baker Eddy
A Poem & Hymn
Written by Mary Baker Eddy
O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;
O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,
Thou Love that guards the nestling’s faltering flight!
Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.
Love is our refuge; only with mine eye
Can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall:
His habitation high is here, and nigh,
His arm encircles me, and mine, and all.
O make me glad for every scalding tear,
For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain!
Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear
No ill, — since God is good, and loss is gain.
Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing;
In that sweet secret of the narrow way,
Seeking and finding, with the angels sing:
“Lo, I am with you alway,” — watch and pray.
No snare, no fowler, pestilence or pain;
No night drops down upon the troubled breast,
When heaven’s aftersmile earth’s tear-drops gain,
And mother finds her home and heav’nly rest.
From Miscellaneous Writings
By Mary Baker Eddy
