Model Scientist

When she was a little girl, Vermont-born Emma Shipman saw some of her ailing relatives restored to health with the help of Christian Science healing. It was not very long before young Emma Shipman had made up her mind to give up Congregationalism and join Christian Science's Mother Church in Boston.

From the very beginning, Emma made a model Scientist. She graduated from Johnson (Vt.) Normal School, taught Sunday school for the Mother Church and served as a full-time Science worker in New Hampshire. In 1898, having caught the eye of Mary Baker Eddy, she was asked to attend the last class ever taught by the founder of Christian Science.

For 56 years, Emma Shipman has served her church obscurely but well, as a Christian Science practitioner and teacher, a member of many committees and a writer of many articles for Christian Science periodicals. In her spare time she is an avid gardener and a member of the Audubon Society. This week, the Mother Church elected Emma Shipman president for the coming year.

The presidency is chiefly honorary; policy in the Mother Church (and its 3,000 branch churches and societies) is tightly controlled by a five-member board of directors. But Miss Shipman seemed little concerned with the temporal honor of her new position. Said she: "If Mary Baker Eddy were here today she would see the signs of the growth she most desired," signs that stem from "a more steadfast consciousness of the all-power and all-presence of God."

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