Professor Hermann S. Hering, C.S.B.

HERMANN S. HERING, a Philadelphian, received his B.S. and M.E. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1886. He became a teacher of engineering. Following a special study of electrical engineering in London, he married Marian White in 1887. In 1891 he went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, to teach for eight years. Professor Hering became interested in Christian Science in 1893 through his wife, whose practice of Christian Science later healed him of a chronic physical illness. He had Christian Science Primary class instruction in 1895; and later, in 1899, Professor Hering gave up his academic career to devote his entire time to the practice of Christian Science. He served as a Reader in Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Baltimore (along with Miss Ellen Cross, his Primary class teacher), and was the Christian Science Committee on Publication for Maryland and the District of Columbia. In 1900 and 1901, Professor Hering had Christian Science Normal class instruction with Edward A. Kimball, becoming authorized as a teacher of Christian Science. He became First Reader of The Mother Church in 1902, and during this period he worked out an order for the Thanksgiving Day service, embodying points supplied by Mrs. Eddy who adopted it for use in all Christian Science Churches in 1903. He also served a term as First Reader of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Concord, New Hampshire. In 1905 he served as President of The Mother Church and was appointed to The Christian Science Board of Lectureship, lecturing for over thirty years and in many parts of the world.

Ref. The Christian Science Journal, Feb. 1901, pp. 688-692 & July 1902, p. 264.
Michael Meehan, Mrs. Eddy and the Late Suit in Equity, pp. 348-350. Quarterly News, 1993, No. 1, pp. 453-456.

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