Who was Mary Baker Eddy ?
Born in obscurity in a tiny New Hampshire town, Mary Baker Eddy was a household name by the turn of the last century. Her early years were marked by struggle and invalidism, but following a dramatic healing through reading one of the Gospels, she rose to international prominence as the discoverer of Christian Science, a religion deeply rooted in the Bible. Her tireless efforts to help others understand how to heal as Jesus did led her to write her cornerstone work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. As a healer, teacher, pastor, poet, publisher, journalist, author, editor, wife, mother, grandmother, and philanthropist, Mary Baker Eddy broke barriers of gender and age, founding a world wide religion and church, a newspaper, a publishing company, and a college at a time when women didn’t even have the right to vote.
From back cover of A World More Bright: The Life of Mary Baker Eddy
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©2013 The Christian Science Publishing Society
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and A World More Bright: The Life of Mary Baker Eddy are Sold in the Christian Science Reading Room
She never gave up!
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From the Holy Bible (KJV).
John 14:12, 16, 25, 26 "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. ... And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; ... These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." |
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy Page 55:15–29 “Truth's immortal idea is sweeping down the centuries, gathering beneath its wings the sick and sinning. My weary hope tries to realize that happy day, when man shall recognize the Science of Christ and love his neighbor as himself, — when he shall realize God's omnipotence and the healing power of the divine Love in what it has done and is doing for mankind. The promises will be fulfilled. The time for the reappearing of the divine healing is throughout all time; and whosoever layeth his earthly all on the altar of divine Science, drinketh of Christ's cup now, and is endued with the spirit and power of Christian healing. In the words of St. John: “He shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever.” This Comforter I understand to be Divine Science." |