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Born into a British family living in Shanghai, China, Isabel Ferguson spent part of her childhood as a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Boarding school in England...

A “huge conspiracy in our midst!” blurted the normally unflappable Calvin Frye. There had been a revolt in Boston while Mrs. Eddy was away in Chicago that June of 1888. The storm had been brewing b...

If she found these events discouraging, she was also cheered by the rush of applicants to her college that autumn. In November of 1888, she wrote to a student: “Our Cause has had a great propulsion...

Ever since her move to Concord, Mrs. Eddy had been praying for God’s guidance as she pondered what form her church should take in the future.By the summer of 1892, she was ready to move forward. Sh...

Mary felt herself being led, like a little child, “into a new world of light and Life,” as she would later describe it.There were still times when she looked back at past troubles and felt afraid....

later, Joseph Armstrong was elected to the Board. A former lumberman and bank owner from Kansas, he had taken up the study of Christian Science after his wife was healed of an illness her doctor ha...

have had as pleasant and happy a home as one could wish for.”With Daniel gone for good, Mary felt very much on her own. In September 1866, she wrote a poem, “I’m Sitting Alone,” that was later prin...

On November 5th, the day before the snowstorm, Edward and Caroline Bates had come to town. A businessman from Syracuse, New York, Edward had been given the contract for the church’s heating and ven...

Mary was now 45, at a time when the average life expectancy for a female born in 1821 was 37. She had no money and no home. Her marriage was over; her only child far away. She was lonely for her fa...