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Mary Baker Eddy Teaches the Class of 1898
September 21, 2009
The September Image Gallery tells the story of Mary Baker Eddy's 1898 class. She said that her work with that class "changed the character of the entire Field." This picture-story includes portraits, documents, photographs, and artifacts from Longyear's collection that are on display in the Museum's exhibit Imparting a Fresh Impulse: Mary Baker Eddy Teaches the Class of 1898.
In November 1898, letters and telegrams went out from Mrs. Eddy to seventy selected participants, inviting them to be present at Christian Science Hall in Concord, New Hampshire, on Sunday afternoon, November 20, to receive "a great blessing." No further information was given. The invitations were strictly confidential. All but two or three of the seventy were able to come. At the first session they were told: "You have been invited hither to receive from me one or more lessons on Christian Science.... This opportunity is designed to impart a fresh impulse to our spiritual attainments, the great need of which I daily discern."
The class took place that Sunday afternoon and the following Monday. This gallery of images and captions shows something of what occurred during those two inspiring days. The story of this historically important event is based on a Longyear Museum exhibit comprised of portraits, photographs, documents, artifacts, and captions filled with interesting background information. The exhibit, which went on display in the Museum's Portrait Gallery in May 2006, will be up through April 2010.
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