THE DISCOVERY OF THE SCIENCE OF MAN THE WOMANHOOD OF GOD Volume I - THE DISCOVERY of the Science of Man (1821 -- 1888) Volume II --- THE FOUNDING of Christian Science (1888 - 1900) Volume III - THE FOREVER LEADER (1901 - 1910) THE WOMANHOOD OF GOD Volume I THE DISCOVERY OF THE SCIENCE OF MAN (1821-1888) Being the Gospel According to Doris Grekel Second Printing, Revised SCIENCE IN EDUCATION 1995 Copyright (c) Doris Grekel1978, 1995 All rights reserved And though the Lord give you the bread of adver­ sity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers. Isaiah Science in Education CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE Preface ................................ IX 1. A Remarkable Beginning ................. 1 II. Twelve-A Culmination ................. 6 III. Youth and Education ................... 12 IV. The Beginning of Sorrows .......... .. 18 V. Sorrows Multiplied ................ ' ... 28 VI. The Patterson Years. .. .. 37 VII. The Civil War ........................ .46 VIII. The Quimby Years ............. " ...... 54 IX. The Great Discovery ............... ' ... 70 X. Signs in the Heavens ................... 76 XI. The Pregnant Years . .81 The Move to Stoughton ............ 87 The Months in Amesbury. .. .. 92 The Stoughton Years. .. .. 98 The Partnership ................... 106 Malicious Malpractice .......... ..116 Beginning the Book .............. 121 The Cambridge Plan .............. 133 Christian Science Emerges . .. ..138 XII. The Birth of the Child ............. ..145 XIII. Asa Gilbert Eddy. .. ..148 XIV. Christian Scientist Association ......... 153 XV. Continued Persecution ................. 158 XVI. The Spiritual Marriage ................ 163 XVII. Beginning of the Flood ................ 166 XVIII. Enter the Accomplice .................. 176 XIX. Blessing for Cursing ................... 183 XX. Kennedy's Unbelievable Plot ........... 187 XXI. Beginning Preaching ................... 192 XXII. Beginning the Church ................. 195 XXIII. Fiery Darts of the Wicked ............. 200 XXIV. Teaching and Healing in the 1880's ..... 207 XXV. Malpractice Fully Fathomed ........... 213 XXVI. Back in Lynn ......................... 217 XXVII. Asa Gilbert Aroused. .221 XXVIII. The Third Edition ..................... 225 XXIX. Enter Calvin Frye ..................... 228 VII THE DISCOVERY CHAPTER PAGE XXX. Envy and Revenge .................... 230 XXXI. The Mount of Transfiguration .......... 233 XXXII. Depart, Depart ........................ 238 XXXIII. Entry into Jerusalem .................. 244 XXXIV. Beginning in Boston ................... 250 XXXV. Mental Murder ........................ 25:3 XXXVI. Event of Import ....................... 264 XXXVII. A Helper ............................. 270 XXXVIII. Back in Boston. .. ................. 272 XXXIX. A Ghost from the Past ................. 277 XL. ,Journal of Christian Science ............ 283 XLI. Arens Arrested ........................ 288 XLII. Wonder of the Western Hemisphere .... 293 XLIII. Julia Bartlett, Missionary .............. 297 XLIV. I Have Chosen You .................... 301 XLV. Steady Progress ....................... 303 XLVI. More Trials ........................... 312 XLVII. Criticisms ............................. :323 XLVIII. On This Rock ......................... 328 XLIX. The Sixteenth Edition ................. 330 L. Shepherding .......................... 334 LI. Another Judas ........................ :338 LII. Literary Thieves ...................... 342 LIlI. Dull Disciples ......................... 352 LIV. The Imitato'r .......................... 357 LV. My Son, My Son ...................... 363 LVI. Metaphysical Obstetric8 ................ 366 LVII. Unity of Good ......................... 369 LVIII. Rebellion ............................. 373 LIX. Meet in Chicago ....................... 377 LX. Science and the Senses ................ 380 LXI. Aftermath ............................ 387 Index ................................. 393 VBI PREFACE N the twenty-sixth of November in 1897, Mrs. Eddy O wrote in a letter to Julia Field-King, "People seem to un­ derstand C.S. in the exact ratio that they know me and vice versa. It sometimes astonishes me to see the invariableness of this rule." In March of 1907 when Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World was spearheading an attack and a lawsuit against the Revelator to this age, she said to a student, "The papers are writing up my history; the history of my ancestry; writing lies. My history is a holy one." For many years the author has been seeking to know Mrs. Eddy and to learn her holy history. Though she feels she has little more than begun on this vast search, it has been reward­ ing beyond expectations. This research has convinced her that an understanding of the trials and triumphs of Mary Baker Eddy is essential for those who "would enter by the door." The publication of these pages is a small, partial payment toward the great debt we owe to the Discoverer of the Science of Man. DORIS and MORRIS GREKEL 1978 IX JESUS RAISING JAIRUS DAUGHTER The frontispiece for Science and Health for many editions beginning with the second edition in 1878. "Damsel, I say unto thee, arise."-Mark v.41 CHRISTMAS EVE THE DISCOVERY OF THE SCIENCE OF MAN CHAPTER I A REMARKABLE BEGINNING In tender mercy, Spirit sped A loyal ray To rouse the liuinJ;, wake the dead, And point the Way~ Christ and Christmas 1817 ARL Y in the nineteenth century there was a man sent E from God whose name was Henry David Thoreau. He was not that Second Coming of the Christ that Henry David Christians were expecting, but he came to bear Thoreau horn witness to a life divine entirely apart from mor- .July 12. H;]7 tal existence. His was the voice of one crying in the wilderness saying, "Can a man feed and clothe himself gloriously, who keeps only the truth steadily before him? who calls in no evil to his aid'?" There abode in the same country (which was the New Eng­ land section of the United States of America) in the nearby state of New Hampshire, a devout woman of Puritan ancestry named Abigail Ambrose Baker. Her husband, Mark Baker, was an upright man and just. The ancestors of both husband and wife were Israelites, though they knew it not. As were all the white Christian people who settled and founded New Eng­ land, they were truly the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Abigail had borne five handsome children,~Samuel, Albert, George, Abigail, and Martha,~and she was a dutiful and devoted wife and mother. But in the spring of 1821 her 1821 THE DISCOVERY thoughts were troubled. According to mortal law she was be­ yond years for child-bearing; yet, like Sarah, wife of Abraham, she was expecting a child. Could this be the child of God in­ stead of Mark and Abigail Baker? One morning while climbing the narrow stairs to the attic where the wool was kept for spinning, she was suddenly filled Abigail's with a sense of light, power, and dominion. The exaltation attic room became radiant with glory, and the devout thought of this saintly woman was reassured. But the religious training and the concepts of that day conflicted with her exaltation, so that it, too, troubled her. She confided in a neighbor, Sarah Gault, and these two women prayed together repeatedly and earnestly. Even though fearing that it might be blasphemous, Abigail could not keep from the thought that this child was holy and consecrated and set apart for wondrous achievements. On the sixteenth day of ,July the days were accomplished Birth of that she should be delivered, and she brought Mary Baker forth her sixth child, a beautiful daughter; and ,July 16, 1821 they called her name Mary Morse Baker. Baby Mary was the special charge of her aged grandmother, albeit she was beloved by all the family including numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins on neighboring farmsteads. Though this sweet, adorable child was loved by all, Abigail and Mark knew that she was unlike other children, even her own brothers and sisters. When she was tiny, still sleeping in a trundle bed in her parents' room, she would call to her father who was reading in Second the parlor: "Father, I know what you are doing. sight You are reading the newspaper." Mark would answer, "Hush, child, go to sleep." Then Mary would reply, "I'll read it to you." And from the trundle bed in the dark bed­ room she would tell him what he was reading, although she could not pronounce the long words. At one time the oldest boy, Samuel, severely injured his leg while chopping wood with an axe. After several days in bed, the wound refused to heal, and the family had begun to despair for the boy's life. Mark picked up little Mary, ap­ proached the bed, turned aside the covers and gently placed Mary's hand over the wound, holding it there for some little 2 A REMARKABLE BEGINNING 1820's time. From that moment Sam's leg rapidly grew well, although Mary suffered with fever for several days afterward. A somewhat similar accident occurred to her brother George Sullivan. George fell out of an apple tree onto a broken bottle, gashing his thigh deeply. A surgeon was summoned to put in some stitches. The boy was screaming with agony. The father picked up little Mary and carried her into the room backward so that she could not see the wound when he placed her hand on it,-and the pain ceased. Why were the peculiar circumstances of Jesus' childhood not included in the gospels? Probably because they were not understood or were disbelieved, for undoubtedly Mary's his childhood was as unusual as