Christian Science: History

Christian Science: History

• 1866 (one month after Quimby’s death) Mary Baker Eddy falls allegedly causing near death condition, from which she was given three days to live. On third day, she asks for a Bible, read Matt 9:2 and rose completely healed. Thus claiming to have ‘discovered Christian Science.’
  • Attending physician, Dr. Alvin Cushing denied in a 1000 word sworn statement that she was ever in a precarious health condition.

• 1867 – Mrs. Eddy lives with mother of Horace Wentworth 1870 in Stoughton who writes:
  ‘I have no hard feelings against Mrs. Eddy, no axe to grind, no interest to serve; I simply feel that it is due the thousands of good people who have made Christian Science the anchorage of their souls and its founder the infallible guide of their daily life, to keep this no longer myself. I desire only that people who take themselves and their helpless children into Christian Science shall do so with the full knowledge that this is not divine revelation but simply the idea of an old-time Maine healer.’

  Wentworth also recorded the very copy of Quimby’s manuscripts from which Mary Eddy taught, which contains ‘corrections’ in Mary’s handwriting.

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