Mary Baker Eddy

Question: Who was Mary Baker Eddy?

Answer: Mary Baker Eddy was the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. She was born in 1821 and through her long life, she overcame many obstacles and challenges. When she was in her mid-40s, she fell on slippery winter ice and was so severely injured, she was expected to die. Instead, from her bed, she asked for her Bible. She opened to a story of Jesus performing a healing and in reading it, she experienced a total recovery from her fall.

Mrs. Eddy spent the rest of her life devoted to exploring, understanding and practicing the spirituality she first glimpsed when healed of the effects of that near-fatal fall.

Mary Baker Eddy wrote her foundational textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which students of Christian Science study to this day. She established the Christian Science religion and its First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusettes. She created a publishing company for the church which publishes a wide array of weekly and monthly periodicals.

Mary Baker Eddy launched a daily newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor, which today continues to be hailed as an award-winning international news publication.

Mrs. Eddy was a Bible scholar. She was a teacher. She was a reformer. She wrote, taught, lectured and above all, she healed. She healed many people of many ills, and she taught early followers to do the same.

Mary Baker Eddy brought forward a way of thinking differently, and re-established a system of healing as taught and shown by the Master, Christ Jesus.