IRVING C. TOMLINSON ...earned his Bachelor and Master’s degrees from Akron
University in Akron, Ohio, in 1884, and his Bachelor of Divinity degree from
Tufts University in Boston in 1888. After an earnest study of Christian
Science, which included Primary class with Mrs. Eddy’s student Flavia Knapp,
Irving gave up the pulpit, joined The Mother Church in 1897, and became a Journal-listed
practitioner.
In 1898, he was invited by Mrs. Eddy to attend her
last class, and he served intermittently on the Bible Lesson Committee
until 1927.
...From 1899 until 1910, Rev. Tomlinson served Mrs.
Eddy in various ways, including as an associate secretary and a member of
her Chestnut
Hill household.
In his book Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy, the former clergyman, Tomlinson, writes
that
Mrs. Eddy taught a number of clergymen who had
become interested in her teachings. She was always happy to have ministers of
the Gospel as her students. Nor as a rule would she accept any tuition fee from
them for instruction in the Massachusetts Metaphysical College; and if two
persons made application with one of them a minister, and only one could be
admitted, the clergyman was usually the one favored.
There were however some clergymen during those years who were bitterly
denouncing Christian Science and its Discoverer." See p. 82.
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