QUARTERLY NEWS MARY BAKER EDDY MUSEUM and Historic Sites

VOL. 8, NO . 2 PUBLISHED BY LONGYEAR HISTORICAL SOCIETY YOUNG PIONEERS THAT MARY BAKER EDDY recognized wit and was much sought after socially. the intelligence, love , and dependability At the age of twenty, however, he was so of youth is illustrated by Longyear's impressed by the healing of Mrs. Arm­ current photographic exhibition of stu­ strong through Christian Science that he dents - young in Mrs. Eddy's day- who ordered a dozen copies of Science and advanced the Cause of Christian Science Health with Key to the Scriptures by to such a degree that their work lives Mary Baker Eddy. He kept one for him­ after them. self, gave one to Mr. Armstrong, and The exhibition is being arranged for disposed of the rest among his family and the special benefit of visitors to the 1971 friends, several of whom later held re­ Biennial College Organization Meeting. sponsible positions in the Christian Science Each of the early workers included came movement. Mr. Neal gave up his banking into the practice of Christian Science be­ career, as did Mr. Armstrong, and they cause of a desire to help and heal mankind. turned wholly to the practice of Christian Many of them were members of Mrs. Science healing. Mr. Neal moved to Arkan­ Eddy's 1898 class, the last she taught. sas City, Kansas, and thereafter lived in turn in several different towns in Kansas

these areas for Christian Science help. Often he drove great distances by horse JOHN C. LATHROP in Mrs. Eddy's study and buggy or by sleigh in answer to these at Pleasant View, near the sculpture she appeals. His healings included cases of total called her "white student." (My. 259) blindness, cancer, and tumors. He had been established in Kansas City for about a year employed in Freeport, Michigan, where when he was asked by the Publication his father had practiced law during his Committee to come to Boston. At first he lifetime. In 1886, John went to New York refused, but when told that the request City to join his mother, who had settled had been made by Mrs. Eddy he responded there in November, 1885, at Mrs. Eddy's at once, beginning work January 1, 1893. request to help establish Christian Science When the original edifice of The Mother in the area. Soon John had a new position Church was under construction, he and and he wrote his former Michigan em­ Thomas W. Hatten were chosen to guard ployer who responded with this high the cornerstone, pending its placement in praise, "You have the right stuff in you to the building. They remained in the work attain the highest position in the gift of your employer.'' He was about sixteen at JAMES A. NEAL as he appeared about the shanty for "three stormy nights, while one time he left the Midwest for Boston. of the Directors stayed there during the the time. Some two years later, his New daytime.'' 1 Throughout his life Mr. Neal York employer wrote John's mother that In 1886, James A. Neal was living in continued to love and practice the work of he was "the best young man I have ever the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Arm­ healing. had with me." With such promise for a strong in Irving, Kansas, and was employed As a young boy, John Carroll Lathrop successful business career John, neverthe­ as a cashier in Mr. Armstrong's bank. He revealed noble qualities of mind combined less, turned at the age of twenty-five to was a popular young man with a ready with native practicality. At the age of the practice of Christian Science. The fourteen he began the study of Christian years in the business world had given him Quarterly News Summer 1971 Science after the healing of his mother, time to answer questions of doubt as to '-' © Longyear Foundation 1971 Vol. 8, No. 2 Mrs . Laura Lathrop, in 1885. As soon as the truth of Christian Science, described Subscription, $3.00 Annually possible after her healing, she had class by him in a helpful article, "Spirituality," Sent without charge to Friends ·Of Longyear instruction with Mrs. Eddy. John was then in the August 1898 Christian Science

November 2015: Minor edits have been made to this newsletter to reflect new 117 information that has come to light since the original publication. Journal. He, too, served the Cause of by Mrs. Eddy to take the first steps and was unwavering in his recognition of Christian Science in many capacities and toward establishing a church in Cam­ "the ineffable riches of a pure heart," and spent a total of eighteen months in Mrs. bridge. When the church was organized, in his acknowledgement of her demon­ Eddy's household, over a period of five William P. McKenzie and she were ap­ stration of the "spiritual reality whose busy years. pointed by Mrs. Eddy as Readers. Later every breath overcame the human with --. Among the young lecturers in Mrs. she was active as a Christian Science the divine.''3 Later he taught Christiaii Eddy's time was Carol Norton of East­ teacher in California, having as one of her Science classes in Connecticut. port, Maine, who, at the age of twenty, pupils Mrs. Eddy's granddaughter, Mary Meanwhile, young people were active left a thriving business as sole manager of Baker Glover Billings. in the Middle West, none more so than a sales agency to begin the practice of Alfred Farlow, who became the first Com­ Christian Science. He came of a distin­ mittee on Publication for The Mother guished family background and was cousin Church and whose career has been de­ to Henry W. and Samuel Longfellow. scribed in the Quarterly News, Spring, After class with Mrs. Eddy in 1898, he 1970. was almost immediately appointed a lec­ Another proof of the capacity and turer. He progressed rapidly as lecturer, initiative of young people was demon­ teacher, writer, and healer. In his own strated at Schofield, Wisconsin, by a group words, "Truth is always the 'Ancient of of Christian Science Sunday School pupils. Days.' The central facts of life remain un­ They ranged from the ages of eight to changed; but our mortal sense of man as fourteen and had been brought together the idea of the infinite Mind, advances in March 1896 by Miss Mary E. Graves, a and ascends."2 primary student of Mrs. Eddy living in BLISS KNAPP, (third from left) as a young man Schofield. They held services in her home, bicycles with Rev. Irving C. Tomlinson, John W. reading first the regular Lesson-Sermon Reeder, and Rev. William P. McKenzie (left to right). prescribed for each Sunday, and follow­ ing with exercises conforming to the rules About the time Emma Easton was for teaching children given by Mrs. Eddy helping to organize the Cambridge church, Bliss Knapp was a student at Harvard in the Christian Science Journal for College and as the son of a member of October 1895. By 1898 the finances of the Board of Directors of The Mot-her the Sunday School were in good condition Church, he gathered together the Christian with nine dollars in the treasury and thr Science students at Harvard for informal class voted to build a church in this small talks by some of the pioneer workers. industrial town which had no church This was the beginning of the institution building of any denomination. Work was which was later to be known as the begun in October 1898 and many in the Christian Science College Organization. community helped. The boys and girls The work was carried forward by Edwin C. were tireless in raising funds and materials EMMA EASTON at the age of seventeen Johnson and others, and in 1904 college themselves. The planning of the building was awarded the degree of C.S.B. by Mrs. organizations were formally authorized in and its construction were carried out Eddy. a By-Law in the Church Manual. On gradu­ entirely by these young people, with the Emma Easton (Newman), descendant ating from Harvard in 1901 , Mr. Knapp help of the local lumberyard. The build­ of a founder of Hartford, Connecticut, went directly into the practice of Christian ing, measuring twenty by forty feet, and had a distinguished father who in March Science and in May 1904, three years later, seating I 00, was completed and dedicated 1893 became pastor of The Mother he was appointed to the Board of Lecture­ Church. Rev. David Augustus Easton and ship by Mrs. Eddy. Mrs. Easton entered Mrs. Eddy's March Joseph G. Mann at the age of twenty­ Primary Class in 1889, and Emma was two in 1886 was accidentally shot through invited to attend with her parents. Al­ the heart by a friend at target practice. As though she was only seventeen, Mrs. Eddy he lay dying, a practitioner who was visit­ was aware of her receptivity to Christian ing in Broad Brook, Connecticut, where Science and bestowed on her the degree the Manns lived , came to the house and of C.S.B. at the close of the class. In healed him. The experience so transformed 1891, at the age of nineteen, she became Joseph that he turned to Christian Science a registered practitioner, listed jointly to bring mankind its wonderful healing with her parents under Pittsfield, Massa­ power. He was soon in the practice and in chusetts, in the Christian Science Journal. 1898, out of gratitude for his healing, he Mrs. Eddy later conferred upon Emma came to Mrs. Eddy as superintendent of Interior of the little Christian Science church at Schofield, Wisconsin, the only known the degree of C.S.D. at the close of the buildings and grounds at Pleasant View. church of any denomination ever built 1898 class. In January 1899, she was asked He lifted many burdens from Mrs. Eddy entirely by young people.

November 2015: Minor edits have been made to this newsletter to reflect new 118 information that has come to light since the original publication. on January 1, 1899.4 All entries and dis­ BICKNELL YOUNG, C.S.B. bursements were carefully recorded and the treasurer, a fourteen-year-old boy, proudly announced on the completion of By the 1870's Salt Lake City was a the building that all indebtedness had been thriving center attracting visits from suc­ met and the treasury had a balance of cessful eastern business men and, occasion­ $2.27. Church services were carried on ally, friends of the arts. As a boy, Bicknell as they had been in Sunday School under Young " took to his studies earnestly, the Rules of the Manual, with Miss Graves gaining all that the western territories of­ as First Reader and an able young girl of fered in the field of liberal education. He fourteen years as Second Reader. A six­ was a brilliant student, prepossessing in teen-year-old miss was the Clerk. appearance and demeanor, with natural In these days Mrs. Eddy was joyous charm and a tremendous capacity for over the accomplishments of Lady Vic­ friendship. He was gifted with a beautiful toria Murray, then in her early twenties, voice, as well as with instinctive musical as she worked tirelessly to awaken the talent of a high order" 1 which led him Manchester, England , area to the beauty to decide on a musical career. When he and healing power of this Truth. Her ini­ made this decision, he followed through tiative, with the support of other students, at great personal sacrifice and effort. An brought the Ma nchester church into being, opportunity opened for him to study in the first Christian Science church outside the Royal College of Music, London, then of London. under the distinguished patronage of the BICKNELL YOUNG Linn Ball Among other young people represented Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. in the exhibition are Roger Sherman, a Portrait presented to Longyear Historical Society by the Bicknell Young Association Among the members of the faculty was young practitioner in Chicago who sowed of Christian Science Students. a brilliant young Italian-born musician, the seed of Christian Science in Denver Elisa Mazzucato, whose father was head through his healing of a patient from that LIKE THE BIBLICAL servant who re­ of the Milan Conservatory of Music and city ; Mary Eastaman, whose illness led her ceived ten talents of his master and a director at La Scala. Kindred tastes and increased them in like measure, Bicknell ideals drew the young people together and

West , wrought a full return for his rich Bicknell Young graduated from the native endowment. Royal College with high honors and he Soon after their marriage , his father was urged by the faculty of the college and mother, Joseph and Jane Bicknell to establish himself in England. He and Young, left Utica, New York, for the un­ Mrs. Young participated in oratorio per­ known West - a journey that was to last formances of which he had made a special fo r more than ten years. Since early study, and sang in concerts in London and Colonial times, the families on both sides the provinces. About 1885, his great love had lived in what is now known as Upper for his country brought him with his New York State. The young Utica couple family back to the West. He taught for joined with others who had come from the some time in Utah when he was invited LADY VICTORIA MURRAY at the corner­ stone laying of the Manchester, England, eastern seaboard on this journey into the to join the faculty of the Chicago Con­ Christian Science Church. vast uncharted areas of the West. They servatory of Music, continuing with this traveled in wagon trains, often stopping institution until he opened his own studio husband, Captain Joseph Eastaman,to seek for long periods in favorable places, prac­ for voice training. Mrs . Young, always out Mrs. Eddy and thereafter to follow ticing their trades and skills to meet re­ working with him, had her own students Christian Science with dedication; and curring needs. Companions left them along in voice, piano, harmony and composition. Elizabeth Earl Jones, who left the com­ the way to establish farms or communities, Their work brought laurels to both. forts of a beautiful home to seek Christian but the Youngs continued the uncertain The music journal, Music and Musicians Science healing, and later became one of and hazardous journey until they arrived in Chicago, wrote of him as "a profound the active workers in the Carolinas. Thus in the newly developing land of Utah. student of the voice and an expert in the seed of Christian Science was planted Within a few years they settled in Salt voice production," and praised Mrs. Young in many areas, not only by the young Lake City; there Bicknell Young was for her highly successful teaching of har­ people mentioned here, but by unnamed born, the youngest of a large family. The mony and composition and as a composer students in various parts of the world. hardships endured by the parents de­ of distinction. Manuscripts of their com­ AHW manded courage and resourcefulness positions, which are referred to as "fresh I Th e Mother Church by Joseph Armstrong. p.22. 2 J11e Christian Science Journal. Vol. 22, p. 118. which matured noble qualities of thought jottings of your valuable musical rninds"2 3 Reminiscences by Josep h Mann . and action, bestowed in such large meas­ are preserved in the Library of Congress. 4 The Ch ristian Science Journ al. February 1899. Vol. \ 6. p. 8 10. ure upon their young son. Their recitals with Mrs. Young at the November 2015: Minor edits have been made to this newsletter to reflect new information that has come to light since the original publication. 119 into Russia , where one registered prac­ titioner in St. Petersburg was meeting with a small group to read the Lesson­ Sermon. In 1920, on completion of his assign- - ~ ment as First Reader of The Mother Astride his favorite Church, Mr. Young resumed his work on mount, Star, Mr. the Lecture Board and served until 1927, Young rode almost daily when in Chi­ when he resigned . He was recalled in 1932 cago or Boston. to meet an emergency need to fill several previously arranged lecture engagements in Europe, and continued to lecture until 1936. He lectured over 24 years in all , often giving as many as 150 lectures a year, occasionally exceeding this number. piano were acclaimed by The Journal of without interruption on the Lecture Board In 1937, he again taught the Normal Class Fine Arts as "among the most artistic except for the three years when called to of the Board of Education. musical events in Chicago," and said of The Mother Church as First Reader. On Mr. and Mrs. Young , "Few musicians have July 17, 1904, he gave a memorable read­ done more for the advancement of all ing of Mrs. Eddy's address at the dedi­ that is fine and classical in their art than cation of First Church of Chris t, Scientist , Mr. and Mrs . Bicknell Young . . . He is in Concord, New Hampshire. a broad scholarly musician, who has made In 1907 Mr . Young was invited to lec­ his art a life study ..." ture at the Albert Hall , London, filling Early in the 1890's Mr. Young was the great hall seating 9,900 people, with healed by Christian Science of an acute many turned away. The next year he was physical difficulty which had resisted or­ asked to lecture in Australia. Accompanied dinary modes of relief. At that time he by one of his sons, he sailed from San had no religious affiliations and considered Francisco , stopping at important ports in himself an agnostic. He began the serious the Pacific before arriving in Australia study of Christian Science, as did Mrs. where he lectured in three cities. He Young, and within a year they joined First headed west, passing through the rough Mr. Young, in 1908, on the fust round-the­ world tour made by a Christian Science Church of Christ, Scientist, in Chicago. Indian Ocean during the monsoon season, lecturer. Shortly thereafter, he became soloist for then through the Suez Canal and the Med­ the church. In 1895 he and Mrs. Young iterranean Sea into Europe . After giving a Throughout his life , Bicknell Young had Primary Class with Edward A. Kim­ number of lectures there , he returned to enjoyed a deep love of the out-of-doors. ball,C.S.D., andin 1901 both entered Mr. the United States, thus completing the He was a devoted horseman and moun­ Kimball's Normal Class and received de­ first trip of a Christian Science lecturer taineer and for several years spent the grees of C.S.B. Mr. Young began teaching around the world. month of August in the West , inviting a immediately and in his 1903 class his The following year, 1909, Mrs. Eddy re­ number of Christian Science friends to mother, Jane Bicknell Young, was a quested Mr . and Mrs. Young to take up accompany him. member. residence in England, which they did In a lecture given in 1922, Mr. Young The Christian Science movement was immediately, and re mained there until made this comment, pertinent for today: growing rapidly in Chicago. First Church 1913. He returned briefly in 1910 to teach " It [Christian Science] appeals to the was overcrowded and Christian Scientists the Normal Class of the Board of Edu91- higher nature, to reason and logic, and living on the opposite side of the city tion, and was present at the services for educates us in the Science of Life, the united to organize Second Church in Mrs. Eddy on December 8, 1910, riding in Science of real thinking, which is the great­ 1898. Mr. Young was elected First Reader. the procession of carriages to Mount Au­ est need of the age ." His impressive career In 1902, when Mrs . Eddy limited the term burn. During their years in England Mr. brought the blessings of Christian Science of readership to three years, he immedi­ and Mrs. Young visited every Christian to untold thousands throughout the world. ately resigned because he had read beyond Science church and society in the Euro­ AHW UnpubU shed manu s\:ript in Lo ngyear co ll ection. the time allotted. The following year, pean field . He made a trip on his own 2 Letter in Longyea r collec tion. 1903, he was appointed to the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church. In the intervening years he had served as Com­ LONGYEAR FOUNDATION: Board of Trustees: Mrs. Marian H. Holbrook, mittee on Publication for Illinois and had Mrs. Ruth A. Johnson, Frederick D. Herberich, Robert C. Dale. Director: Richard C. Molloy; Assistant to the Director: Kenneth Taylor; Corresponding maintained an extensive practice. His mu­ Secretary: Mrs. Charlis F. Vogel; Director of Research: Mrs. Anne Holliday sical career had given way to the demands Webb. QUARTERLY NEWS is published four times annually, in the Spring, of work in a higher field. Summer, Autumn, and Winter, at the headquarters of Longyear Historical From 1903 to 1927, Mr. Young served Society, 120 Seaver Street, Brookline, Massachusetts 02146. Inquiries about memberships, subscriptions, and its services are welcomed. November 2015: Minor edits have been made to this newsletter to reflect new 120 information that has come to light since the original publication. Printed in the Unit ed States of America