Tenacre History
From Farm to Foundation
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A motorist driving from historic Princeton, New Jersey to nearby Hopewell would likely pass by Tenacre Foundation.  Deep summer foliage veils the site from passers-by, but if such a drive were made in fall or winter, one would likely see at least portions of some 35 buildings spread over the Foundation's 65 acres.

When only the original Main House, some chicken houses and barns, comprised Tenacre Farm in 1921, the desire appeared in the thoughts of the owners to minister to the needs of their fellow Christian Scientists. Their unselfed motive to serve others was the human manifestation of the Love which is God.      Using the simple accommodations then available―their own home - they opened their doors for the purpose of serving and ministering. Tenacre, the outreach of God's love, was then complete in its purpose.      Today this purpose is the same―the desire to serve and minister in the hearts of those who have lived and worked here, including those now here.      With the appearance on our campus of the Chapel-Recreation Building, I saw as I had never seen before, that all that had been happening through the years, which the world saw as a physical Tenacre, growing and expanding, was the coming into human view of an ever more complete and refined sense of that which never could have resulted from mere human efforts. Actually, Tenacre was the outreach of unselfed love which had its inception in the selfless purpose to serve and minister, that first appeared in the hearts of the founders of Tenacre and has continued in the consciousness of those who have seen and supported their God-given objective.      And so today, …let us all see that what is basically taking place is more than mere physical building, growing, expanding. Factually, it is the coming into human view of an ever more complete and refined sense of the outreach of the Love divine.

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