Septimus J. Hanna - Editorial Work

Editorial Work

After about two years Judge Hanna was called to Boston to take editorial charge of the Christian Science Journal. This was in the fall of 1892. He remained in this position with Mrs. Hanna as assistant until June 1902. When in September, 1898, the Christian Science Sentinel was established he became its editor also. In addition to this he was made pastor of the "Mother Church" in Boston early in 1893. In 1894 the form of the service was changed and he then acted as First Reader of the church until June 1902.

While yet in Scranton Judge Hanna visited Boston and for the first time met the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy at her residence, which was then for a short time in Roslindale, Massachusetts. He had known little of her prior to that time and certainly had not worshipped her in any personal or in any other sense. He had, however, a profound feeling of respect and gratitude for what she had done and was doing for mankind. Judge Hanna was deeply impressed with Mrs. Eddy when he met her, feeling that he was in the presence of no ordinary woman. There was a dignity of demeanor about her that seemed to him unique and such as he had never witnessed in such a degree in any one he had ever met. Her conversation was confined largely to spiritual affairs and the Christian Science movement, and he saw she was wholly devoted, in all her thought and purpose, to God and humanity.