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VOL. 7, NO.4 PUBLISHED BY LONGYEAR HISTORICAL SOCIETY Watchman! The Pleasant View Years Look backward ; how much THE PLEASANT VIEW GALLERY was Through Mrs. Eddy's generosity Pleas· has been won! opened in June, 1970 as a permanent ant Street was later macadamized - the Look round; how much is exhibit in the Mary Baker Eddy Museum. first street in Concord to be so treated. yet to win! It was designed to recall the setting and This sparked a road development pro­ The watches of the night activities of Mary Baker Eddy's Concord, gram which was to transform the little are done! The watches of the day begin. Samuel Longfellow

Sixth Annual Musicale A WARM RECEPTION was accorded two young musicians who presented an unusual program at our Sixth Annual Musicale on December 13, 1970. Larry Groce, well known at this time for his recordings of Mrs. Eddy's hymns and for his own original anChristian Science AN EVENT of interest to many Christian dimensions for the walls. A surprising Journal for August, 1892. A small mural Scientists was the rededication on No­ three-dimensional quality was achieved elsewhere in the gallery shows George vember 22, 1970 of the Bow Bog Meeting in some of the enlargements, notably House at Bow, New Hampshire, following Kinter, one of Mrs. Eddy's secretaries, the complete restoration of the little in the familiar view of Mrs. Eddy in her and Mrs. Kinter with their niece, Grace, church. Mr s. Eddy remembered this victoria returning from her afternoon enjoying a ride on the pond, all three church in 1902 by presenting a beauti­ drive. The victoria is halted at the en­ properly attired for the occasion. On the fully toned bell for its belfry. trance of the grounds from Pleasant right of the path leading to the pond Street. Calvin Frye is on the box guiding shown in the large mural, men are haying. Quarterly News Winter 1970-1971 Princess and Dolly, two of Mrs. Eddy's The hay has been cut, raked, and cocked © Longyear Foundation 1971 Vol. 7, No. 4 horses. Pleasant Street in the background into small mounds. On one ideal hay­ Subscription, $3.00 Annually is a rough country road and beyond are making day about the time the day's Sent without charge to Friends ·Of Longyear fields and an orchard - a farming area. work was done, an unexpected shower

109 Eddy continued these annual gifts of shoes to the needy. Another mural in the Gallery depicts the simple arched entrance - still standing at Pleasant View - through which passed members of the British nobility, eminent ...----.. clergymen and jurists, prominent business men, and hundreds of simple folk, all coming to serve Mrs. Eddy or to bring REAR GROUNDS messages of gratitude for healing. OF THE ESTATE Mrs. Eddy endeared herself to the peo­ showing the pond, ple of Concord and its officials through haying fields and the State Fair grounds her sincere interest and support of the in the distance. community. She fostered city improve _­ ments and encouraged local merchants and manufacturers. Examples of articles produced and sold by them are on exhi­ bition in the Gallery. Today there are swans on a lake in White's Park in Con­ cord. Could it be that these are descend­ ants of a pair originally given to the city by Mrs. Eddy in 1893? The city appreciated Mrs. Eddy's con­ threatened. The men continued their feat with uncommon interest in 1900 tributions and influence in the commu­ work until all the hay was in, without and also in 1901 , saying that it "was a nity. When she moved from Concord to any being touched by the rain. The next beautiful example of the power of mind Chestnut Hill in 1908, a group of Wona­ day Mrs. Eddy complimented them and over matter."l lancet Club members - prominent in the said, "That is just the way father used to The first year of the Fair, Mrs. Eddy Concord community - estimated what do his haying." was accompanied by Judge and Mrs. Mrs. Eddy's stay of twenty years among Beyond the limits of Pleasant View Septimus J. Hanna, and in 1901 by lay the Concord State Fair grounds.-MF&--J.udge-.-and-M.fs..- WillJa.m G. Ewmg.- Gn- Eddy had taken a keen interest in the both occasions they were met at the Fair from its inception and had contrib- entrance to the Fair, their presence an- uted to the beautification of buildings nounced through a megaphone, and they and grounds. The Fair was a momentous were then escorted around the grounds event to Concord and Mrs. Eddy was by a mounted guard amid the applause especially invited to attend, not only in of the throng. The carriage halted near 1900 but also in 1901. In 1901 some the grandstand where in 1900 Mrs. Eddy 15,000 people came to view the racing, had enjoyed watching the trotting horses. midway attractions, and other events. In 1901 two trains bringing 600 Christian Among the chief attractions was Oscar Scientists arrived from . After Norin, the high-diver, who plunged from visiting Christian Science Hall the group a tower eighty-seven feet high into a went to the Fair grounds where Mrs. small pool. Mrs. Eddy had watched the Eddy had reserved a block of seats for them. In his greeting and address in 1901 , the Governor of New Hampshire praised Mrs. Eddy as a noble, good woman and spoke of her contribution to the beauti­ fication of the Fair and of her generous gift on the previous day - children's free day - of certificates for shoes to be given out to needy children. The next day THE DARING DIVER NORIN at the Concord State Fair. 206 pairs of shoes were fitted to these children by W. A. Thompson, a trusted them had brought financially to Co n­ dealer in Concord. For a number of years cord.2 The most conservative figures in­ when the Fair was no longer held, Mrs. cluded:

MR. AND MRS. GEORGE KINTER AND THEIR NIECE, GRACE, enjoy a ride on the 1. The Christian Science Journal, v. 19, 2. Mary Baker Eddy, A Life Size Por­ pond. p. 411. trait, by Lyman P. Powell, p. 21 3.

110 The Christian Science Church - Mrs. Eddy's Gift $225,000 Charitable donations 25 ,000 For good roads 25,000 Miscellaneous gifts and con­ tributions 25,000 Pleasant View estate 40,000 Household expenditures 100,000 Income from special privileges granted to Concord manufac­ turers and business men 40,000 Granite contracts for Christian Science churches obtained be­ cause of Mrs. Eddy's residence and through her influence 1,000,000 Other known expenditures 90,000 Total $1,570,000 All those that came to visit at Pleasant View felt the spirit of hospitality which prevailed there. This is reflected in an­ other small mural showing Calvin Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Cornell Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. William P. McKenzie and their son, Stuart, and Miss Sarah Clark conversing on the rear verandah. Among visitors from a distance was Mrs. Sue Harper MRS. PAMELlA LEONARD. MRS. LIDA Mims of Atlanta, Georgia. In her diary, the entrance to Pleasant View. she wrote of Pleasant View) "Mrs. Eddy four in the early days, and as many as watch an airplane meet at Squantum, lives now in religious retirement in a twenty in later years. A maid might have in which he was much interested. Several lovely but unostentatious home charac­ been a successful teacher in a city; an members of the household accompanied terized by a dainty elegance and extreme experienced-business executive might be him in the family automobile. erderliness. A perfeetion of lamlseape serving as one of Mrs. Eqdy's secretaries, Life at PleasantYiew was a de-dicated gardening is the chief beauty of this a concert singer or a former pastor of a one and the home life had a "most home - great stretches of grassy lawn, large church might be given a metaphy­ striking natural ten dency upwar d" as fragrant meadow, rosebeds, a small lake, sical assignment. They worked in a demo­ characterized by Joseph Mann, who left a playing fountain, set in a background cratic spirit and each met· a specific need a busy practice in Christian Science to of hills and low mountain ranges, make of Mrs. Eddy, lending support to their . become superintendent of the grounds, a picture to delight an artist eye" - a Leader in her larger mission of establish­ out of gratitude for-his spectacular heal­ gracious appraisal by one whose own ing Christian Science ill the consciousness ing when accidentally shot through the gardens were distinguished in her south­ of mankind. · heart. 4 On one occasion when a severe ern homeland. Photographs of a number of workers wind was blowing, the windmill which On three occasions, 1897, 1901, and at Pleasant View over ihe years are shown supplied water for the pond developed 1903, Christian Scientists attending the in a small case in the Gallery. Foremost an annoying squeak which could be heard annual communion at The Mother Church among these in length and character of at the house. Anxious to save Mrs. Eddy were invited to Pleasant View. The June his service was Calvin Frye, who was this disturbance, he asked one of his men 30, 1903 Boston Journal, exhibited in with Mrs. Eddy for twenty-eight years, to climb to the top and oil the wheel. the center case in the Pleasant View never faltering in any call frc{m her. He Through fear of the wind, the man re­ Gallery, reports the gathering on the was born in Frye Village, now a part of fused, and Joseph mounted the ladder previous day, June 29, of some 10,000 Andover, Massachusetts, the only son of himself, oiled the gearing and returned followers whom Mrs. Eddy addressed Enoch Frye III. His father was a culti­ safely. The next day Mrs. Eddy told him from her balcony - men and women vated man and a tea ch~r who had been that she admired his agility and fearless­ from many lands. prepared at Phillips Andover. Acaqemy ness, but asked him not to climb the The home at Pleasant View was shared for Harvard College and who was a mem­ windmill again in such a wind. Later he by carefully selected Christian Scientists, ber of the same class as Ralph Waldo said this awakened him to see that his chosen to serve Mrs. Eddy metaphysically Emerson. Calvin's grandfather was a mu­ service to her had value beyond that of and practically. They came from many sician and was for many years director of backgrounds and professions - three or the choir of Old South Church in Andover. During Calvin's long service, he had only 4. A Century of Christian Science Heal­ 3. A Memoir of the Life· of Sue Harper one brief holiday of half-a-day (and that ing. The--christian Science Publishing Mims, by Corinne Stocker Smith. much later when at Chestnut Hill) to Society, p. 25 .

111 mere hand service, and that every assign­ Mrs. Eddy interposed, "Not outwitted - Eddy scrupulously followed the growth ment must reflect Principle. outwisdomed." and practices of these new departments, A happy incident is described by Miss But Mrs. Eddy's great work in these and numerous were the letters she herself Clara Shannon, an accomplished singer, years was that of establishing the Christian wrote to individuals or to the Boards, who spent nearly seven years in the Science movement on a spiritual basis. challenging, correcting or commending household at Pleasant View. One still In 1889 she had dissolved the material their work. night well after midnight Mrs. Eddy structure of the movement as it then On January 26, 1908 Mrs. Eddy called her. As she entered her room Mrs. existed. After the publication of the walked down the station platform in Con· Eddy asked her to leave the door half fiftieth edition of Science and Health cord, and, unaided, entered her private open and wait outside while she sang with Key to the Scriptures in 1891 with car, which with a coach and baggage car something that her mother used to sing major changes, she brought out Christ was to take her and her household to a to her. Then in her high sweet voice and Christmas. Soon followed the build­ new home in Chestnut Hill, Massachu­ Mrs. Eddy sang, "Come to my bower, ing and dedication of The Mother Church setts. Concord was sad at her going and sweet bird." Later she sang "Oft in the edifice in 1895 and the publication of official letters of regret were sent, ac­ stilly night" and Miss Shannon recorded the Church Manua l. The impersonal pas­ knowledging their appreciation of her both tunes and the words of the second tor was ordained - the Bible and Science services to Concord. Fifty-eight years song repeated to her by Mrs. Eddy. and Health with Key to the Scriptures - later, in 1966, the Board of Aldermen There are also photographs on display excerpts from which provided lesson­ also remembered Mrs. Eddy's place in in the Pleasant View Gallery of Laura E. sermons on subjects ordained by her. Concord history, and passed the follow­ Sargent who was Mrs. Eddy's trusted The Christian Science Sentinel was foun­ ing resolution (quoted in part): companion for almost eighteen years, ded in 1898 and a foreign language Irving C. Tomlinson, George Kinter, Dr. periodical was inaugurated in 1903 with "WHEREAS , Mary Baker Eddy, while Alfred Baker, Mrs. Janette Weller, Ezra the publication of the German Herald. a citizen of Concord, contributed liberally Buswell, and Mrs. Mary Armstrong. These To sustain and promote the new to the civic and material betterment of workers were either 1n her household or church, she established in 1898 The the community and has helped to spread at Christian Science Hall. Many others Board of Lectureship, The Board of the name of Concord far beyond its whose photographs are not shown were Education, The Christian Science Pub­ boundaries, associated with Mrs. Eddy during the lishing Society, and in 1899 the Com­ "THEREFORE, the City of Concord Pleasant View years. mittee on Publication. Only The Christian resolves as follows: In the morning Mrs. Eddy often called Science Monitor remained to be estab­ "That this anniversary be recognized her household, or a selected group, t