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By: Mary Baker Eddy

Date: 1908

Source: The Christian Science Monitor, Issue 1, 1908. Available online at Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, http://lcweb2.loc.gov (accessed May 27, 2003).

About the Author: Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) overcame various personal trials to become the founder of one of the longest enduring American churches. In 1866, a healing event led her to reconsider the nature of God and the relationships among spirituality, the mind, and health. Devoting the rest of her life to her new theology, Christian Science, she wrote Science and Health (1875), which remained in print into the twenty-first century, and formed the Church of Christ, Scientist, in 1879.

Introduction

As Eddy's religious teachings grew in popularity at the beginning of the twentieth century, so too...