Editorial September 30, 2002 Issue

A life that inspires spiritual journeys

Mary Trammell

This issue paints the portrait of an extraordinary 19th-century woman—Mary Baker Eddy. A woman also very much in touch with ordinary things, however, even the hard things of life.

She lived in a time when women were expected to stay at home, work hard, raise large families. They couldn't vote, own property, or have custody of their own children.

And here's where Mary Baker Eddy's life was especially arduous—and her triumph all the more remarkable. She was widowed at an early age, her only child sent away by relatives. Her second husband left her penniless, virtually homeless, and in poor health.

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