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attend its six consecutive Communion services on June 10. In metropolitan centers in the United States and elsewhere, large, impressive branch churches were being built, many of them in the heavy n...

During 1892 Mrs. Eddy settled on the title that was to describe her relation to Christian Science. Henceforth she was to be known officially as its Discoverer and Founder. “Only,” she wrote Julia F...

the basic Christian exaltation of quality above quantity. There was obviously no question in her mind that the real healing inwardness of historical Christianity had suffered grievously from the ma...

sense the biblical concept of revelation through chosen prophets4 could be reconciled with the facts available to rational inquiry—as one might say that the rising sun “chose” the highest peak on w...

to Irving Tomlinson in 1902. “The churches are over-organized.”13 The Manual was actually designed to keep the organization lean. A cryptic one-sentence message from her in a 1904 issue of the Chri...

At Nixon’s suggestion as publisher, Mrs. Field-King had spent the first two or three months of her editorship traveling around the country to raise new subscriptions. Finally Mrs. Eddy had written...

One of the things that differentiated Mrs. Eddy from her followers was her sense of history. The evidence shows that she thought in centuries where most of them thought in years. The gradual pagani...

are the weight we, not God, give it. Jesus said “my burden is light”—again he fainted under it.13 During his first visit to Concord in 1891, H...

In 1903 she had enlarged the Board of Directors to five members, so that Archibald McLellan might serve on it in addition to his editorship of the periodicals. Earlier she had twice asked one or an...