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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Mary Baker Eddy Biography EDDY, Mary Baker (c.1821–1910). The founder of Christian Science. She was born at Bow, near Concord, N. H. In 1843 she married Col. George W. Glover of Charleston, S. C., where she resided until his death. From that time Mrs. Eddy made her home in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. In 1877 she married Dr. Asa G. Eddy. Mrs. Eddy gives 1866 as the date when she discovered what she afterward presented to the world as the science of Christianity. She founded the First Church of Christ, Scientist (the "Mother Church"), in Boston in 1879 and opened the Massachusetts Metaphysical College there in 1881. She is most widely known as the author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The first edition of this work was published in 1875, and since then it has been often reprinted, with occasional revisions of its wording before her decease. It sets forth the Christian Science interpretation of the Holy Scriptures and this method of healing. Mrs. Eddy's followers believe that living in strict accord with Christian Science will not only improve their moral and spiritual condition, but will insure physical welfare. Mrs. Eddy's other publications are: People's Idea of God (1886); Christian Healing (1886); Retrospection and Introspection (1891); Unity of Good (1891); Rudimental Divine Science (1891); No and Yes (1891); Church Manual (1895); Miscellaneous Writings (1896); Christ and Christmas (1897); Christian Science versus Pantheism (1898); Pulpit and Press (1898); Messages to the Mother Church (1900; 1901; 1902); The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany (1913). Mrs. Eddy died Dec. 3, 1910, at Newton, Mass., leaving the bulk of her estate to be used for extending the world's knowledge of the religion which she taught. Consult Life by Wilbur (4th ed., Boston, 1913). See Christian Science. The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. VII (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 463. |