Often ignored or rejected by her colleagues in religion, yet so desirous of sharing with the world her understanding of God's laws, Mrs. Eddy began a Church of her own, founded on Christ Jesus' word and works.
A contemporary of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Eddy advocated women's rights. Her larger mission, however, was to bring freedom from the limits of mortality to women and men alike.
Mrs. Eddy's own inscription in a well-worn Bible hints at the distance traveled from her personal quest for healing to her unshakable faith in God's care.
Twenty-five years ago, when I first read Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, my emotions were so stirred that I literally wept as I read the book.
Though she lived during a time of few freedoms for women in the United States, Mrs. Eddy was far from being a typical nineteenth-century woman. Her certainty of God's love, and her unselfish love for humanity, changed, and continue to change, the world.
When the work that was required of her to graduate seemed more than she could possibly manage, this writer discovered that more time was the last thing she needed. The result of the discovery? Straight A's.
