Eddy, Mary Baker
Eddy, Mary Baker( 1821–1910),discoverer and founder of Christian Science, was born in New Hampshire. She was married three times, although for a long time an invalid. In 1862 she became a patient of Phineas P. Quimby, a mental healer of Portland, Me., with whom she had contact until 1865 and in whom for a time she had much confidence. To the spiritual enlightenment she received with recovery from a serious injury (1866) she attributed her discovery of Christian Science. She began to work out her own metaphysical system, and her students and followers increased rapidly after the publication of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1875). The following year the Christian Science Association was formed, and in 1879 the various associations were merged in the Church of Christ, Scientist. She founded (1883) and for a time edited the Journal of Christian Science, which won more recruits to her Metaphysical College and church....
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