Article June 9, 1973 Issue

Discovering the Discoverer

REGINALD HAYES

Only small thinking could resent a woman being the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Some such resistance in my thought was overcome when I talked with a Christian Science practitioner about it. Our conversation went something like this:

Myself: "I find some prejudice in my thinking about Mary Baker Eddy being the author of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, and the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science—the fact she was a woman, I mean."

Practitioner: "Mr. Hayes, if you had fallen into deep water and couldn't swim and were shouting for help, would you really care if a woman, instead of a man, threw you a life preserver?"

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