Joseph Armstrong , C.S.D.

Oil on canvas portrait by John Young Hunter
Original Longyear Collection, Longyear Museum, AW0222

JOSEPH ARMSTRONG,C.S.D.
Joseph Armstrong, a successful businessman and banker in Irving, Kansas, became an avid student of Christian Science when his wife was healed through Christian Science in 1886. Christian Science class instruction that year with Janet Colman, a student of Mary Baker Eddy, was followed by further instruction from Mrs. Eddy in 1887, 1888 and 1889. Mr. Armstrong was a pioneer Christian Science worker in the Midwest until Mrs. Eddy called him to Boston in 1892 to become Publisher of the Christian Science periodicals and her writings. He succeeded Captain Joseph Eastaman in 1893 as a member of The Christian Science Board of Directors, and, as he recounts in his book, The Mother Church, Mr. Armstrong oversaw the building of the Original Edifice of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston.

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