Franklin "Frank" N. Riale (1859-1935) was born in Tipton, Iowa, and died in Wooster, Ohio. He graduated from Wooster University and earned both a Doctor of Divinity and a PhD from Harvard University. He married Alice E. Riale (b. Durstine) in Madisonberg, Ohio, in 1885. Riale became a Presbyterian minister and headed up pastorates in Des Moines, Iowa; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Cleveland, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; and St. Louis, Missouri, before settling in Wooster in 1912.
He was the son of Joshua A. Riale, also a Presbyterian minister, who wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in 1887 to order a copy of her book Christian Healing. Frank N. Riale became very interested in and supportive of Christian Science himself. In 1906 he authored an article entitled "Our Debt to Christian Science" that was published in several large newspapers in the United States. Riale wrote to Eddy about a dozen times in 1906 and 1907, and one of Eddy's replies to him was later published under the title "Letter to a Clergyman" in her book First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany. Riale had at least 25 articles favorable of Christian Science published in The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel between 1906 and 1931.
He was also the author of several books, including The Sinless, Sickless, Deathless Life: God's Glory-goal for All, published in 1913, The Divine Antidote to Sin, Sickness, and Death, published in 1921, and The Healing Ministry of Jesus: A Healing Handbook for Believers, published in 1930. Riale served as the Field and Associate Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Education in the 1910s and 1920s.
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Franklin "Frank" N. Riale (1859-1935) was born in Tipton, Iowa, and died in Wooster, Ohio. He graduated from Wooster University and earned both a Doctor of Divinity and a PhD from Harvard University. He married Alice E. Riale (b. Durstine) in Madisonberg, Ohio, in 1885. Riale became a Presbyterian minister and headed up pastorates in Des Moines, Iowa; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Cleveland, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; and St. Louis, Missouri, before settling in Wooster in 1912.
He was the son of Joshua A. Riale, also a Presbyterian minister, who wrote to Mary Baker Eddy in 1887 to order a copy of her book Christian Healing. Frank N. Riale became very interested in and supportive of Christian Science himself. In 1906 he authored an article entitled "Our Debt to Christian Science" that was published in several large newspapers in the United States. Riale wrote to Eddy about a dozen times in 1906 and 1907, and one of Eddy's replies to him was later published under the title "Letter to a Clergyman" in her book First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany. Riale had at least 25 articles favorable of Christian Science published in The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel between 1906 and 1931.
He was also the author of several books, including The Sinless, Sickless, Deathless Life: God's Glory-goal for All, published in 1913, The Divine Antidote to Sin, Sickness, and Death, published in 1921, and The Healing Ministry of Jesus: A Healing Handbook for Believers, published in 1930. Riale served as the Field and Associate Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Education in the 1910s and 1920s.
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