Striving to Follow Our Leader’s Example My introduction to the illustrious Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, the Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, was in May 1887. [Prior to that time,] I had exhausted my faith in drugs and had gone west to the thrifty little city of Beatrice, Nebraska, in the hope of benefit through higher and drier atmosphere, but this forlorn hope had also failed me when, through nearby neighbors, the Christian Science textbook was placed in my hands, and my attention was thereby drawn to Christian Science.