1907 - Human Life Magazine described Mary Baker Eddy as "one of the most famous, interesting and powerful women in America, if not the world."

1992 - The Women's National Book Association named Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy's major work, one of "75 books by women whose words have changed the world."

1995 -  Mary Baker Eddy is inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame for making "an indelible mark on society, religion and journalism."

1998 - Mary Baker Eddy named by Religion & Ethics Newsweekly (PBS) as one of the 25 "most significant religious figures for Americans in the 20th century."

1999 - 2001 Five US States (RI,MA,NH, TX, IL) and the Council for the District of Columbia passed resolutions or issued proclamations honoring Mary Baker Eddy for her contributions to humanity and the advancement of women.

2002 - The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity opens in Boston, MA.

Her Life

Interest in the life and ideas of Mary Baker Eddy continues with marked increase each year.  Many people identify with her spiritual search and with what she had to face as a woman, alone:

• Widowed, single mother, ill for many years, also divorced
  

• Struggled under severe 19th century limitations on women
  

• Explored all the healthcare systems of her day including: homeopathy, hydropathy, dietary methods, and placebos - seeking a cure.
  

Then, in 1866, after a life-threatening accident, where she suffered injuries so severe the attending doctor felt she would not survive, a passage from her Bible of one of Jesus' healings, reached through the barriers of time and touched her heart.

The spiritual insight she gained at that moment led to her quick and complete healing.

This inexplicable experience impelled her to spent the next three years studying deeply the Scriptures, pondering her experience and the healings of Christ Jesus.  Her dedicated study coupled with divine inspiration resulted in the discovery of the divine principle or method of Gospel healing. 

In 1875, she wrote Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures to explain what she had discovered and was proving in her own healing practice.  She named this prayer-based system of spiritual healing, Christian Science. (Science meaning provable Truth.)

It is Bible based and proven to be safe and effective. 

The Science of Christianity, is a religious specialty, which proves the power of Spirit over the human mind and body. Her discovery of Scriptural spiritual healing is available to everyone regardless of background, denomination, or location. Science and Health is published in seventeen languages.  

Eddy's Legacy of Healing Continues...

The basis for the current enormous interest in the relationship between spirituality and health, can be traced to Mary Baker Eddy's life and ideas. 

The mind/body connection is widely recognized by physicians and healthcare professionals today and healing through prayer continues to be proven effective by current on-going medical research studies. 

While Mary Baker Eddy continues to be recognized as a leading pioneer in mind/body medicine even though she discovered, discerned, and wrote extensively about the connection between thought and healing over 150 years ago.

Huffington Post writer Mitch Horowitz’ article on 10 Positive-Thinking Books That Might Change Your Life said of Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy: 

This is not a positive-thinking book in any conventional sense, but none of the literature mentioned here would have been possible, or at least would read the same way, 

without the Christian Science founder’s influence. Unlike many of her contemporaries, Eddy became widely read and internationally known. 

Her highly original metaphysics touched nearly every thinker in the mind-power world for fifty years. Eddy’s work foresaw current uses of prayer and meditation for health.”

To find out more about the life, ideas and lasting accomplishments of this remarkable woman click on  www.marybakereddylibrary.org

Another extraordinary achievement of Mary Baker Eddy was the launching of an international daily newspaper - at 80 years of age!  The Christian Science Monitor has won numerous Pulitzer Prizes for its unbiased journalism.  When Nelson Mandela was released from prison, he came to the United States and showed up unannounced at the offices of the Christian Science Monitor.  Hastily the editors gathered to hear him recount that after years in prison he was granted access to some technology and world news.  He came to the Monitor to say he could always rely on what they wrote to be truthful. Mrs. Eddy’s mission for the Monitor is to bless all mankind.

Click on this link for a news source of integrity and honesty. www.csmonitor.com