Star of Boston
The Life of Mary Baker Eddy
by
Helen M. Wright
Mary Baker Eddy
Portrait by Emilie Hergenroeder
OTHER BOOKS BY HELEN M.
WRIGHT
Mary Baker Eddy: A New Look
Mary Baker Eddy's Church Manual
& Church
Universal & Triumphant
Mary Baker Eddy: God's Great
Scientist, Vol. I
Mary Baker Eddy: God's Great
Scientist, Vol. II
Mary Baker Eddy: God's Great
Scientist, Vol. III
If Mary Baker Eddy's Manual Were
Obeyed
America: Cradle for the Second
Coming of the Christ
Mary Baker Eddy Reveals Your
Divinity
Humanity's Divinity
Made Whole Through Our Marriage To
God
Mary Baker Eddy, Leader Forever
(44 page pamphlet)
Mary Baker Eddy, Leader Forever
(112 page pamphlet)
NOTE: The author was a
personal friend of Gilbert C. Carpenter. There are references throughout this
book where she recounts a comment from Mr. Carpenter concerning Mary Baker Eddy
or another quote. Such a reference is denoted as "A Carpenter Item."
The following abbreviations are used in
this book:
S&H--Science and Health
Mis.--Miscellaneous Writings
Ret.--Retrospection and
Instrospection
Pul.--Pulpit and Press
'00, '01, '02--Message for 1900,
1901, 1902
My.--First Church of Christ,
Scientist and Miscellany
DCC--Divinity Course and General
Collectanea
ISBN: 1-886505-21-7
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Helen M. Wright Publishing, Inc.
Created in the United States of
America
Acknowledgments
I am deeply grateful to my staff who
have read and criticized this entire manuscript--especially to Elizabeth Zwick
for her judicious, intelligent editing, and to David Keyston who was always on
hand to encourage and help me over the rough spots and to get this book ready
for the printer and the Internet.
Dedication
This book is dedicated to the
spiritually-minded reader--you.
Contents
Introduction 1
Part Ia - Mary Baker Eddy
and the Fulfilling of Isaiah 54 3
Part Ib - Mary Baker Eddy
and the Fulfilling of Isaiah 54 33
Part II - Atonement and
Eucharist: the story of the Second Coming of the Christ as Revelation
66
Part III - Christ and
Christmas 93
Picture 1 - Star of
Bethlehem 100
Picture 2 - Christ
Healing 112
Picture 3 - Seeking
& Finding 122
Picture 4 - Christmas
Eve 133
Picture 5 - Christmas
Morn 145
Picture 6 - Christian
Science Healing 160
Picture 7 - I thank
thee, O Father, Lord, of heaven and earth, because thou hast
hid these things from
the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Jesus 174
Picture 8 - Treating
the Sick 188
Picture 9 - Christian
Unity 203
Picture 10 - Truth
versus Error 213
Picture 11 - The
Way 224
In Summary of Christ and
Christmas 240
Conclusion 247
Illustrations
Other than those from Christ &
Christmas in Part III.
Several pictures are from Lyman P.
Powell's, Mary Baker Eddy, A Life Size Portrait, while the drawings are
from Sibyl Wilbur's, The Life of Mary Baker Eddy.
Mary Baker Eddy (by Emilie Hergenroeder)
Frontispiece
Earliest Known Picture of Mrs. Eddy · ·
vii
Mrs. Eddy Leaving Pleasant View For Her Daily Drive
2
Mrs. Eddy's Birthplace in Bow, New Hampshire As it
looked when she was a child. From a chalk drawing by Rufus Baker, steel
engraved · 13
The Congregational Church at Tilton, New Hampshire
18
Cottage at North Groton, New Hampshire - The home in
the White Mountains to which Dr. Patterson took his wife in 1856 ·
· 21
Photograph of Mrs. Eddy About 1871 · ·
50
The "Little House on Broad Street," Lynn,
Massachusetts Where Mrs. Eddy completed the First Edition of Science and Health
· · 52
The Original Mother Church Edifice with the Extension
and the Christian Science Publishing House · 63
Pleasant View, Concord, New Hampshire Where Mrs. Eddy
resided from 1892 until 1908 80
Mrs. Eddy's Home at Chestnut Hill, Newton, Mass.
· 88
Mrs. Eddy's residence in Chestnut Hill ·
· 246
Mrs. Eddy as she looked about the time of her last
class 255
"Never Abandon the By-Laws!" · ·
· 257-8
Mary Baker Eddy
This is the earliest known
photograph of her, taken in the early 1850's.
Introduction
During the nineteenth century and the first decade of
the twentieth century the foundations of the modern world were laid.
Electricity was harnessed; automobiles and airplanes were invented; Einstein
formulated the special theory of relativity. But the most significant and least
recognized contribution was the mighty, crowning and triumphant discovery of
Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy, a discovery that would fulfill Bible
revelation and show us that our own real Mind is God, infinite good.
Mrs. Eddy's work on earth came as divine revelation.
This is brought out in her statement to James Henry Wiggin, as reported in
My. 318:32. Because Mr. Wiggin had helped Mrs. Eddy, editorially, to
make clearer to the man in the street some of her statements in Science and
Health, she invited him to visit one of her classes. Mr. Wiggin saw things
differently from Mrs. Eddy and when she began her attack on agnosticism, Mr.
Wiggin could control himself no longer, and burst out with, "How do you know
there ever was such a man as Christ Jesus?"
To this Mrs. Eddy made the firm reply, "I do not
find my authority for Christian Science in history, but in revelation. If there
had never existed such a person as the Galilean Prophet, it would make no
difference to me. I should still know that God's [infinite good's] spiritual
ideal is the only real man in His [infinite good's] image and
likeness."
It was important to Mrs. Eddy that Christian
Scientists, as well as the public in general, have a correct concept of who she
was as the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, the one chosen to
fulfill Jesus' promise and prophecy of the "Comforter," who would bring the
Second Coming of the Christ, and teach all men their true identity as one with
God, having "the kingdom of God within" their own consciousness as their true
Mind.
Mrs. Eddy knew what she had done for mankind. To
students she one day said, "As Mary Baker Eddy I am the weakest of mortals, but
as the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, I am the bone and sinew of
the world" (Emma C. Shipman Reminiscences).
Knowing this Mrs. Eddy wrote: "For the world to
understand me in my true light and life, would do more for our Cause than aught
else could. This I learn from the fact that the enemy tries harder to hide
these two things from the world than to win any other points. Also Jesus' life
and character in their first appearing were treated in like manner. And I
regret to see that loyal students are not more awake to this great demand in
their measures to meet the enemies' tactics."
Mary Baker Eddy leaving on her
drive from her home at Pleasant View.
Star of Boston book sections
Introduction | Part 1a |
Part 1b | Part 2 |
Part 3
Christ & Christmas Pictures
1 |
2 | 3 |
4 | 5 |
6 | 7 |
8 | 9 |
10 | 11
Summary |
Conclusion
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