H Christian Science Library makes available information concerning the inspired history of Christian Science and Mary Baker Eddy. Virtually all of the information presented on this site has been available to the public for nearly half a century. However, during most of this time, the central Christian Science church in Boston, Masachussetts, has inexplicably sought to suppress much of this history, as it represents a divergence from the more secular viewpoint promoted by them through their historical and biographical accounts in the official Reading Rooms of that denomination. Christian Science Library is a resource sponsored by Healing Unlimited and not affiliated with any organized church. It seeks to present that history of Christian Science and its Discoverer, Founder and Leader--Mary Baker Eddy--preserved by those who knew her best and were intimately involved in the unparalleled success of the Cause of Christian Science at the turn of the 20th century. These workers demonstrated this revelation Mrs.Eddy discovered with over 2,000,000 healings by 1906.

You will find wonderful first-person memoirs and reminiscences along with grand historical panoramas that chronicle the life, character, love and history of Mary Baker Eddy and the Cause she founded, a cause that was, and is, the greatest boon to humanity since our beloved Master healed multitudes in Judea.

"The Christian world accepts as infallible, statements which were made by our Lord and Master, which were not recorded for from thirty to sixty years after he made them. The statements recorded by Mrs. Eddy’s students were written down within a few moments after they were made, a fact which should weigh on the side of proving their accuracy and correctness...."

Much of what is represented here constitutes Mrs. Eddy's demonstration of the revelation she taught others. It has been said that her published writings (published by the church, but now in the public domain and published by others as well) contain the revelation she received from God, specifically, the textbbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. There is also a great body of evidence that her other writings—those published for upwards of 50 years, that illuminate her daily instruction, healing and guidance— constitute the demonstration of her revelation, an invaluable record for posterity.

"How does man develop spiritual sense? By use. Before he can use it he must know he has it, and begin to lose faith in the adequacy and satisfactory nature of the false sense. Thus, when a problem is placed before the student, the solution of which defies his trained human mind, the despair he feels over the inadequacy of the human mind to supply the solution helps to drive him to the use of the divine Mind, which of necessity involves the use and development of spiritual sense.

"An example of this was the building of The Mother Church. Mrs. Eddy laid down arbitrary provisions and requirements which made the human mind feel that such requirements could not possibly be fulfilled. The result was that those in charge worked on the problem from the standpoint of demonstration with more determination than perhaps they would have otherwise. To some degree they relinquished the human mind, because they felt it to be inadequate to perform the tasks successfully according to the demands of their Leader. In this wise way did Mrs. Eddy ensure the building of the church being a spiritual development for those engaged in the work, as well as the result of a scientific demonstration of divine Mind, rather than a product of mortal mind, or material sense.

"It can be affirmed that whatever our Leader declared, or gave her students to do, that seemed to be beyond their human performance and understanding, was an effort to force them to the use and development of spiritual sense, which would include preparation for the course in Divinity, since, as has been stated, this course is received wholly by spiritual sense....

"If a student today selects a cryptic statement from among these household notes and seeks to discover its true meaning through the listening ear—listening for God’s voice—instead of seeking to discredit the statement given by our Leader simply because he does not understand it humanly, he will be enabled to perceive the divine purpose back of these statements. Too, he will learn how they can be used by an advanced student without breaking the Manual, and will prove them to be of the same value to him that they were to those who heard them directly from our Leader’s lips...."

Christian Science Library believes that this is the true value of all history--the spiritual lesson to be assimilated by the reader or listener--more so than the merely mortal account.

"…On page 181 of the first edition of Science and Health she writes, ‘The literal meaning of the Scripture is not its highest sense; its spiritual signification is what explains God and man.’ The same holds true for all the vast material that has been preserved from our Leader’s lips and pen that is not to be found in her authorized published writings.

“The question is, should the crumbs which fell from our Leader’s table, those numerous bits of marvellous teaching which she gave her spiritual children—be circulated? Certainly the answer would be no, if their accuracy is questionable, or if by doing so the By-law in the Manual is broken that forbids the use of aught but the Bible and Mrs. Eddy’s works, as 'textbooks for self-instruction in Christian Science, and for teaching and practicing metaphysical healing.'

“Another question comes up: Does the word, works, mean only Mrs. Eddy’s published writings? It must be true that she wished to remain as the standard teaching of Christian Science only that which she had a chance to revise until it was letter perfect. She instructed students not to accept her earlier writings as her last word [or her only word]. Therefore it follows that nothing but her latest published works should ever be used for self-instruction, and for teaching and practicing metaphysical healing.

“The only rational deduction in connection with Mrs. Eddy’s unpublished material is that she expected each student to be taught of God eventually, and that in his footsteps leading to God, the inspired Word of the Bible and Mrs. Eddy’s works would be his infallible guide. She knew that in this journey God provides each one with the supplementary aid that will best help him along the road, when he is ready for it.

“One point is indisputable. No student is ready to have unpublished material by our Leader until he has studied and practiced her published works to the point, where he can determine to a large degree whether such unpublished material is in exact accord with what she left us in her published writings. When such a time comes for a student, the blessings coming from her unpublished writings may best be described in her own words, that she wrote to Julia Field-King on June 29, 1896: 'When you say the effects of my letters last for days you but slightly state it. They will last till you are not a mortal in sense; but realize yourself in Soul—and immortal.

"Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not," said Jesus. Your faith in the immortality of Truth will be according to your understanding of it ... I have taught all that is requisite for all occasions. It only remains for you all to understand and apply it to daily practice.'

“In 1945 the Christian Science Board of Directors issued a book written by Irving C. Tomlinson, which contains a number of items or fragments from our Leader. Many of these are prefaced by the statement that they are what Mrs. Eddy said to him, 'as I later wrote down my impression of her words.' See page 76 of Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy.

“Evidently the Directors were willing to have Mr. Tomlinson share the spiritual bread that our Leader broke with him, trusting him to have been capable of accurately recording such fragments. The Field was blessed by being given Mr. Tomlinson’s book. By publishing it the Directors indicated that they placed faith in the fragments that he gathered, as being accurate transcriptions of Mrs. Eddy’s inspired pronouncements; they obeyed the Master’s commandment, 'Gather up the fragments,' as well as Mrs. Eddy’s direction to Laura Sargent, 'Go write it.' [Laura Sargent was one of Mrs. Eddy’s most trusted students]. Fragments, p. 11-12.

We hope that you gain spiritual insight into the manifest trials and triumphs that Mary Baker Eddy experienced in her faithfulness in following the divine leading, the result of which was the establishment of the greatest scientific advancement in the history of mankind, the Science of the Christ. Her demonstrations are as important to the world today as those wonderfully preserved demonstrations of our beloved Master show forth his unparalleled demonstrations of healing, making the Word flesh. The great value to humanity of both of these witnesses of God is their ability to impart an understanding of the coincidence of the human and the divine, their demonstration of the Christ-healing Principle--that divine visitation of the Holy Ghost in man's experience--that transcends every human effort and brings about divinely natural "miracles" and healing.