About

Bliss Knapp Career Highlights:

  • Attended (at Mrs. Eddy’s request) and graduated Harvard University (1897-1901)
  • A “First Member” of The Mother Church (appointed in 1901 at Mary Baker Eddy’s request)
  • Primary class teaching with Flavia Knapp, CSD, 1895
  • Practitioner (Journal-listed: 1901 to 1958)
  • Primary class teaching with Edward A. Kimball, CSD 1903;
  • Normal class with by Judge Hanna, CSD in 1907
  • Teacher (Journal-listed: 1907 to 1958; taught first class in 1913)
  • Lecturer (appointed at Mary Baker Eddy’s request) served for 21 years (1904-22 and 1927-31)
  • Executive Secretary to the Board of Lectureship for seven years, the second person to fill that post
  • President of The Mother Church (1912-13)
  • Treasurer of The Mother Church (1917-18)
  • Bible Lesson Committee member and Chairman (1922-23)
  • First Reader in The Mother Church (1923-26) and substitute First Reader thereafter
  • Teacher in The Mother Church Sunday School (1940s)
  • Editor of Lecture manuscripts (1943-48)
  • Author of The Destiny of The Mother Church (published 1991)
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