Mrs. Eddy Mentioned Them July 25, 1959 Issue

Benjamin Orange Flower, 1858-1918

[Mentioned in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 316]

BENJAMIN ORANGE FLOWER began his editorial career in his birthplace, Albion, Illinois, when he was twenty-two. He had expected to be a minister, like his father, for the Disciples of Christ. A change in his religious views—he embraced the Unitarian faith, probably while he was attending Kentucky University—changed also his purpose.

With another young man he started a weekly family newspaper in Albion, which he called the American Sentinel. Being ambitious, he sought a larger field and so joined his brother, a doctor, in Philadelphia. From there he came to Boston, where he wrote on questions of the day for various magazines.

In 1886 he founded the American Spectator, which he merged three years later with the Arena. The first issue appeared in December, 1889. At first, religion was the chief topic in its pages, but gradually social reforms became dominant.

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