I joined the DMHS that very day inside that church. Someone took a picture of me joining, and I have yet to find it or know who might have it. Chris C.J. Johnson did his usual awesome job of photographing this once great church. An awesome experience in a building unlike any other around..
The website of the Des Moines Historical Society is - desmoineshistoricalsociety.org. The DMHS (Iowa) also has a Facebook page - facebook.com/groups/desmoineshistoricalsociety/
So what's the deal here? Your description says this building was purchased and set to be torn down. This was almost 5 years ago and the building still stands.
too bad they are taking the building down, the outside is beautiful. Looks like a Episcopal Church on the outside, but not on the inside. There was news article in the late 70's, about the graying of a Church, and it was speaking of Christian Science as group. Most of them were people born in the 1890's to 1920, and huge numbers of them have now died off. It was quite the religion to be many years ago, but it lost it appeal and last I read there was aprox 100,000 Christian in the world. Used to be several million just in this country
The children of CS parents are going elsewhere or are turning agnostic. I was CS for many years and have noticed a sharp decline in the last 20 years. Its just weird that they don't do communion, baptism, or marriage because they take issue with ritual.
it is odd, they don't have some ritual, The CS members have gotten very elderly and in my area California near Sacramento, once huge CS churches have been sold. Years ago, my Episcopal Rector who's wife's family was CS, told me its not the Theology that is getting them in trouble with the young, its the proper old lady tea party set that turns the younger people off. At one time, the CS Church women in my town,was a pretty stuck up bunch
There were never millions of Christian scientists. At its zenith there were a quarter million in America. I suppose if you have medical neglect, especially of children, built into your ideology, it will eventually lose its appeal. Most children who were raised in this religion left as fast as they could after enduring childhoods full of needless pain that would have been easily abated with aspirin or antibiotics.
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Thank you for documenting the structure and to thoes who posted interesting comments
I joined the DMHS that very day inside that church. Someone took a picture of me joining, and I have yet to find it or know who might have it. Chris C.J. Johnson did his usual awesome job of photographing this once great church. An awesome experience in a building unlike any other around..
The website of the Des Moines Historical Society is - desmoineshistoricalsociety.org. The DMHS (Iowa) also has a Facebook page - facebook.com/groups/desmoineshistoricalsociety/
So what's the deal here? Your description says this building was purchased and set to be torn down. This was almost 5 years ago and the building still stands.
too bad they are taking the building down, the outside is beautiful. Looks like a Episcopal Church on the outside, but not on the inside. There was news article in the late 70's, about the graying of a Church, and it was speaking of Christian Science as group. Most of them were people born in the 1890's to 1920, and huge numbers of them have now died off. It was quite the religion to be many years ago, but it lost it appeal and last I read there was aprox 100,000 Christian in the world. Used to be several million just in this country
The children of CS parents are going elsewhere or are turning agnostic. I was CS for many years and have noticed a sharp decline in the last 20 years. Its just weird that they don't do communion, baptism, or marriage because they take issue with ritual.
it is odd, they don't have some ritual,
The CS members have gotten very elderly and in my area California near Sacramento, once huge CS churches have been sold.
Years ago, my Episcopal Rector who's wife's family was CS, told me its not the Theology that is getting them in trouble with the young, its the proper old lady tea party set that turns the younger people off. At one time, the CS Church women in my town,was a pretty stuck up bunch
There were never millions of Christian scientists. At its zenith there were a quarter million in America. I suppose if you have medical neglect, especially of children, built into your ideology, it will eventually lose its appeal. Most children who were raised in this religion left as fast as they could after enduring childhoods full of needless pain that would have been easily abated with aspirin or antibiotics.