Alfred Farlow, C.S.D.

Oil on canvas portrait by I. M. Gaugengigl
Original Longyear Collection, Longyear Museum, AW0088

ALFRED FARLOW, C.S.D.
In about 1885, Alfred Farlow and five other members of his family became interested in Christian Science. Janet Colman, a graduate of Mary Baker Eddy's 1885 Normal class in Christian Science, taught Mr. Farlow in March 1886. He then attended Mrs. Eddy's Primary class in May 1887, her Normal class in October that year, and another class with her in 1889. Mr. Farlow was one of twelve chosen by Mrs. Eddy to address the Christian Science Congress of the World's Parliament of Religions at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. His defense of Christian Science in the press was well known to Mrs. Eddy, and in January 1900, she appointed him the first Manager of the Christian Science Committee on Publication. Under his able organization, a network of Assistant Committees on Publication in America and abroad was established. He received the C.S.D. degree, or Doctor of Christian Science, in 1903, and in 1904 he was elected President of The Mother Church. Following his retirement as Committee on Publication in 1914, he continued his work as a Christian Science practitioner and teacher in California.

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