Author of. Death, Cause unspecified 3 . Mary Baker Eddy. No one will ever know how many, because the church does not keep statistics. An article on Thursday, December 15, 2011, about the Christian Science Church incorrectly stated that Dr. Phineas B. Quimby helped Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy after she slipped on ice and nearly died. [167], Several of Eddy's homes are owned and maintained as historic sites by the Longyear Museum and may be visited (the list below is arranged by date of her occupancy):[168], 23 Paradise Road, Swampscott, Massachusetts, 133 Central Street, Stoughton, Massachusetts, 400 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, Newton, Massachusetts. It supposedly emphasizes divine healing as practiced by Jesus Christ. Christian Science, medicine and prayer | Letter, Dying the Christian Science way: the horror of my fathers last days podcast. As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life. Christian Science Church Seeks Truce with Modern Medicine read the headline. 363 pages. Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. It is hard, at this late date, to be moved by Scientists threadbare theological squabbles and internecine court battles, by the minutiae of their predicaments. Ill health in childhood spent in New Hampshire meant a limited home education, and the death of her . Sometime after his death, I dreamed about him. While the precise extent of her injuries is unclear, the transforming effect of the experience is beyond dispute. [24], My father was taught to believe that my brain was too large for my body and so kept me much out of school, but I gained book-knowledge with far less labor than is usually requisite. On the evening of February 1, 1866, Mary Baker Eddy took such a bad fall on the ice that it knocked her unconscious from internal injuries. In 1877 she married Asa Gilbert Eddy, and became known as Mary Baker Eddy She is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Democrat and Leader. How Did Mary Baker Eddy Get to Be a Millionaire? -- Mary Baker Eddy . [162][163][164], In 1921, on the 100th anniversary of Eddy's birth, a 100-ton (in rough) and 6070 tons (hewn) pyramid with a 121 square foot (11.2m2) footprint was dedicated on the site of her birthplace in Bow, New Hampshire. [47] The cures were temporary, however, and Eddy suffered relapses. [152] Psychiatrist Karl Menninger in his book The Human Mind (1927) cited Eddy's paranoid delusions about malicious animal magnetism as an example of a "schizoid personality". "Sacred Texts in the United States". [129] This gained notoriety in a case irreverently dubbed the "Second Salem Witch Trial". Eddy also went on a 3-year journey, rather than . By the 1870s she was telling her students, "Some day I will have a church of my own. Mary had little luck with any of these methods, however, until she . "[78] However, Martin Gardner has argued against this, stating that Eddy was working as a spiritualist medium and was convinced by the messages. A 1972 polio outbreak in Connecticut left multiple children partially paralysed; a 1985 measles outbreak (one of several) at Principia College in Illinois killed three. "[59], Quimby wrote extensive notes from the 1850s until his death in 1866. [90] Historian Ann Braude wrote that there were similarities between Spiritualism and Christian Science, but the main difference was that Eddy came to believe, after she founded Christian Science, that spirit manifestations had never really had bodies to begin with, because matter is unreal and that all that really exists is spirit, before and after death.