Article August 7, 2006 Issue

BROADER BOUNDS

A HISTORY OF THE WEDNESDAY MEETINGS

BY JUDY HUENNEKE

"Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's" (St. Paul). Testimony in regard to the healing of the sick is highly important. More than a mere rehearsal of blessings, it scales the pinnacle of praise and illustrates the demonstration of Christ, "Who healeth all thy diseases" (Psalm 103:3).

—Mary Baker Eddy
Manual of The Mother Church, p. 47

Thursday afternoon, autumn 1882. A bustling street in Boston's South End. Three o'clock, at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College on Columbus Avenue—"parlor lectures" on "practical metaphysics."