Emma Curtis Hopkins: The "teacher of teachers".

All your affairs, as you now look at them, represent your former way of thinking.
They are held together by the glue of your former ideas.
Now if you withdraw that glue, what can you expect, but that your affairs will all fall to pieces to let new affairs, representing your new way of thinking establish themselves. -Emma Curtis Hopkins

Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849-1925) Born September 2, 1849, in Killingly, Connecticut, of an old New England family. She received a good education and became a schoolteacher. Mrs. Hopkins' gift for teaching showed itself early. Before she was fifteen years old, she entered Woodstock Academy (Conneticut) as a student and because of her genius was given a place on the faculty as a teacher.
Attracted by reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the Christian Science textbook, she traveled to Boston in 1883 to attend a class under Mary Baker Eddy. She established herself as a practitioner and the following year was made editor of the Christian Science Journal. However, by fall 1885, Hopkins and MBE had had a falling out.

Late in 1885 Hopkins moved to Chicago. Hopkins began to teach classes, and her students began establishing offices as practitioners. The first class included Helen Wilmans, Ida Nichols, Mabel McCoy and Katherine (Kate) Quiner Bingham (1849 - 1913). Hopkins also began to hold Sunday services at what became known as the Hopkins Metaphysical Institute. Students were attracted to her from around the country, and Hopkins traveled to San Francisco and New York in 1887 to teach.

By 1887 Hopkins was recognized as being head and shoulders above the other Christian Science independent teachers. “Other speakers may give the idea that Science is a good thing, but she leaves the indelible impression that it is a TRUE thing”.

In 1886 Plunkett incorporated the Emma Hopkins College of Christian Science, in Illinois.
Mabel L. McCoy was Mary's sister.

By the end of 1887, branches of her institute could be found across the United States from Maine to California. As the work matured, the institute in Chicago was reorganized as the Christian Science Theological Seminary. After a decade in Chicago as an elder of a school and church, Hopkins turned the work over to her students and in 1894 retired to New York City and lived quietly as a private tutor to those who wished to study with her one-on-one. In a letter to Myrtle Fillmore at the time she wrote: “Sometimes my dauntless divinity shines even though my bones and skin are like glass, as if the sea of glass mingled with fire were taking place in my body.”
Among her students were many who later became prominent teachers and leaders within the New Thought movement, including Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, founders of the Unity School of Christianity, H. Emilie Cady, author of the Unity textbook "Lessons in Truth," as well as Frances Lord, Annie Rix-Militz, George Edwin, Malinda E. Cramer, co-founder of Divine Science, New Thought poetess Ella Wheeler Wilcox, New Thought publisher Elizabeth Towne, and considerably later(1924) Ernest Holmes, founder of the Church of Religious Science.

"God works through me to will and do that ought to be done by me."
Be sure this is true.
It is a great rest to think how many unnecessary things we have been doing that we are now relieved from doing. -Emma Curtis Hopkins
The Meaning of HighWatch Hopkins frequently referenced the "high watch" in her New Thought writings during the late 1800s. From her writings in the pamphlet, Resume(1892), keeping the high, or upward watch, means "maintaining an elevated consciousness that looks up to (metaphorical) heaven to find God."
Highwatch http://www.highwatch.net/Home_Page.php
If one keeps a high watch, identifying oneself with an illuminated consciousness, true reality is manifest - one finds God within.

Mrs. Emma Curtis Hopkins lived until 1925. After her death her sister Estelle Carpenter took over, aided by a teacher, Miss Eleanor Mel. It's said Miss Mel was at her side. 

Emma Curtis Hopkins died on April 8, 1925.

Dr. Raymond C. Barker provided this valuable note on her passing:

This information was given to me in the early 1940's by the Reverend Eleanor Mel, Minister of the Boston Home of Truth on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. Miss Mel had been a close friend and student of Annie Rix Militz. She had also studied with Mrs. Hopkins and had been a close friend.

Mrs. Hopkins was at her High Watch Farm in Kent, Connecticut, attended by her sisters. Intuitively knowing that her death was near she asked her sister to have Eleanor Mel come to see her. Miss Mel drove at once from Boston to Mrs. Hopkins' home. She was met at the front door by the sister and taken upstairs to the bedroom of Mrs. Hopkins. Mrs. Hopkins greeted her in a normal voice from her bed and told Miss Mel that she was going to make her transition almost immediately and asked that Miss Mel read to her from metaphysical books. About an hour later she said to Miss Mel, "Open the Bible and read it to me." Miss Mel opened the Bible to John 17 and read the first verse "These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come: glorify thy son, that thy Son also may glorify thee." During the reading Mrs. Hopkins passed in peace. Then, Miss Mel left the house. From the ministerial thesis of Rev. Ferne Anderson

 

All that stands between you and your Good,
which belongs to you and which you ought to have,
is your own idea of the absence of Good

(E.C.H.)

A Miss Ethelred Folsom, who had studied with Mrs. Hopkins and apparently had accompanied her on a trip to Europe, set up an organization to perpetuate Mrs. Hopkins' influence and people were invited to come to classes in Mrs. Hopkins' teachings, and her works were published and distributed under the name "The Ministry of the High Watch.".
Miss Ethelred Folsom (Sister Francis as she became known), Estelle Carpenter and Morrison P. Helling, signed papers incorporating the Ministry of the High Watch at Joy Farm in 1928. The role of the Ministry was to preserve the writings of Emma Curtis Hopkins and provide a simple and rustic retreat for body and soul of those in need of spiritual sustenance.

There comes a time when what we have heard in the closet, we boldly proclaim from the housetop.
But it is not something which we force ourselves to do. -Emma Curtis Hopkins