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Contrasting Images from the 1885 Christian Scientist Association Picnic
July 20, 2009
The outdoor portrait of about 100 of Mary Baker Eddy's students and their guests at the Massachusetts ocean-front park called Point of Pines on a hot and sunny July day, offers a study in contrasts between those who would stand by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science and those who would fall away, attack her, or even seek to supplant her. They sit shoulder to shoulder in this 1885 photograph taken at a pivotal moment of history.
With Mrs. Eddy in attendance they gathered to celebrate the ninth anniversary of the Christian Scientist Association and to have a photo taken - a snapshot that would develop the lights and darks of contrasting qualities of character leading some of Mrs. Eddy's students, like Calvin Frye and Julia Bartlett, to stand with their teacher through the years, while leading others, like Josephine Woodbury and Emma Hopkins, to abandon the Christian Science movement and even attack its Leader.
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