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The Goldstein family

A question as to who influenced who

Among well known Melbourne people whose bodily ailments the Christian Scientists have undertaken to cure is Mr. H. H. Champion. It is claimed by members of the cult that Mr. Champion, who has been in very bad health for some time, is deriving great benefit from the Christian Science treatment, and even the most sceptical will hope that the claim is justified. I hear by the way that Mrs. Champion, of the Book Lovers' Library, who wore glasses before she fell in with the scientists, has since been enabled to abandon them. If this kind of thing goes on there will be hard times among the doctors and oculists.[1]
    • From the ADB entry on Henry Hyde Champion
Champion suffered a stroke in 1901 which left him semi-paralysed, with his speech affected and a limp, and unable ever again to use his right hand for typing. The Goldsteins were Christian Scientists: Champion attended meetings of the sect and was converted at least to the extent that he rejected the advice of conventional physicians.
Survived by his wife, Champion died at South Yarra on 30 April 1928 and was cremated after a Christian Science service.[2]
The Christian Scientists, now that their new rules have been compiled, resumed their meetings last Sunday. They are to be known as the First Church. Mrs. Fairbairn is first reader, and Miss James, who has just returned from receiving instruction in America, second reader. The officebearers of the First Church are :—Miss Cusack, President of Committee ; Mr. Edwards, Secretary ; and Miss Selmon, Treasurer. Miss Vida Goldstein is a member of the committee.[3]
Isabella Goldstein had joined the Christian Scientists in 1903 with her daughter Aileen, her daughter Vida had joined in 1902. Isabella’s grand daughter Leslie Henderson wondered if Isabella’s death in 1916 was caused by some illness which her Christian Science beliefs made her unwilling to acknowledge.[5]
  • Selwyn??
  • Lina?? Certainly Lina's daughter Leslie sounds sceptical

Nichols family

Testimonies from the field: The coming of Christian Science to Australia, c. 1890-1910

Wikipedia entry for Jill Roe (1940-2017

Testimonies from the field: The coming of Christian Science to Australia, c. 1890-1910 by Jill Roe, Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University

Abstract
The account of the coming of Christian Science to Australia given in this article is based on testimony contributed by early adherents to the two main church publications, The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel, supplemented by Church records and other sources. The first two decades are covered, from the earliest known intimations of interest to the death of Mary Baker Eddy in 1910, when a Christian Science presence in Australia was assured. Interest shown by writer Miles Franklin, and her association with Melbourne adherents such as leading feminist Vida Goldstein, provides the starting point. The focus is on positive responses. It is postulated that in addition to the documentary and expressive value of the testimonies, they point to problems of class and health in turn-of-the-century Australia. A preponderance of women in both the testimonies and the practice is evidenced, and the openness of progressive women to new approaches is noted. With reference to male testimony, it is suggested that further research into responses to American ways in religion by the urban midle class would be very valuable.[8]
In early 1902, some seventy-six MelbourneScientists signed a petition in favour of Mrs Lincicome, including all theGoldsteins and their maid, but in vain. After four years, as founder, firstreader, and first listed practitioner in Victoria, in February 1902 Mrs Lincicomesailed away, never to return.[9]
In any event,for some months through 1901–2 there were two groups advertising ChristianScience services in central Melbourne. However, things gradually calmeddown, as the pro-Lincicome petitioners realized that she had not been “recalled”by Boston, as her enemies implied, but had simply left. An abject letter fromIsabella Goldstein to this effect survives in the records. Order was restoredwith the organization of First Church, Melbourne, on 28 February 1903.[10]

Sources

  1. ↑ SOCIETY (1902, August 21). The Arena (Melbourne, Vic. : 1900 - 1903), p. 15. Retrieved January 19, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article255912232
  2. ↑ Geoffrey Serle, 'Champion, Henry Hyde (1859–1928)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/champion-henry-hyde-5548/text9457, published first in hardcopy 1979, accessed online 19 January 2024.
  3. ↑ PERSONAL. (1903, March 12). The Arena-Sun (Melbourne, Vic. : 1903 - 1904), p. 6. Retrieved January 19, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article255909548
  4. ↑ LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN TOWN HALL (1944, May 6). Record (Emerald Hill, Vic. : 1881 - 1954), p. 4. Retrieved January 19, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article165039422
  5. ↑ https://anneyoungau.wordpress.com/2022/01/23/isabella-goldstein-nee-hawkins-1849-1916/
  6. ↑ 1931 Census: "1931 Census of Canada"
    Library and Archives Canada; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Seventh Census of Canada, 1931; Folder Number: T-27368; Census Place: Vancouver Centre, British Columbia, Canada; Page Number: 7
    Ancestry Sharing Link (free access)
    Ancestry au Record 62640 #6959729 (subscription required, accessed 20 January 2024)
    Georgina H Nichols (75), widowed, Homemaker, head of household at 1915 Haro St, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Born in Australia.
  7. ↑ 1931 Census: "1931 Census of Canada"
    Library and Archives Canada; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Seventh Census of Canada, 1931; Folder Number: T-27368; Census Place: Vancouver Centre, British Columbia, Canada; Page Number: 7
    Ancestry Sharing Link (free access)
    Ancestry au Record 62640 #6959730 (subscription required, accessed 20 January 2024)
    Dorothy B Wilson (18), single granddaughter, Student, in household of Dorothy B Wilson (18) at 1915 Haro St, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Born in British Columbia.
  8. ↑ Roe, J. (1998). Testimonies from the field: The coming of Christian Science to Australia, c. 1890-1910. Journal of Religious History, 22(3), 304-319. https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/testimonies-from-the-field-the-coming-of-christian-science-to-aus
  9. ↑ Roe, J. (1998), “Testimonies from the Field”: The Coming of Christian Science to Australia, c. 1890–1910*. Journal of Religious History, 22: 304-319. https://doi-org.ezproxy.slv.vic.gov.au/10.1111/1467-9809.00066 page 317
  10. ↑ Roe p 318




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