Education and Career
Rathvon attended Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania from 1870–73. By the early 90s he was in Colorado working as a successful businessman. In 1893, Rathvon joined the Christian Science Church in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the Massachusetts Metaphysical College's primary class in 1903 and returned for the normal (teachers) class in 1907. From 1908-1910 he was a corresponding secretary to Mary Baker Eddy. He remained active in the Christian Science church from that time on until his death holding a number of positions: member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship (1911–18); editor, director, and treasurer of the Mother Church of Christian Scientists (1918); and trustee in the Christian Science Benevolent Association and the Christian Science Pleasant View Home Association. He was an author in the periodicals of the Church including the Christian Science Journal and Christian Science Sentinel. He was a lecturer on Christian Science travelling extensively and taught classes on the subject to a large association of students until his death in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1939. He wrote "The Devil's Auction" in 1911, an allegory that has been widely copied, often with modifications and used in sermons as "The Devil's Garage Sale" and assumed to be author unknown.
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