Article April 6, 1899 Issue

Christian Science in Baltimore

with contributions from Henry Drummond

The Sunday Herald

One of the most common-sense and provable of the many religious organizations born of Christian evolution in the last century is that curiosly exalted quality called Christian Science.

This new sect, in the doctrine of their belief, have not only blended science and Christianity, but have established a sort of infallible union between the Bible and "Science and Health," which they use as a "key to the Scriptures," and a direct text to their faith. The author of this book is Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.

To know this woman well requires, more than anything, a knowledge of her works, for her life has been devoted to Christian Science, and therein is revealed her great individuality. When a girl in her New England home, she was unusually intelligent and evinced deep religious tendencies. At twenty she was far beyond the average, and from that time proved that she was destined to teach new lessons in life. Only a few years later she was writing and lecturing, all of which was but a prophecy of what was to come. The first edition of her Christian Science text-book was published in 1875, and four years later she founded in Boston, Mass., what is now the Mother Church, with a general membership of thirteen thousand and nearly five hundred branches in Christendom.

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