The Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker G. Eddy, has united the Massachusetts Metaphysical College with the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston.
In 1889, to gain a higher hope for the race, she closed her college in the midst of unprecedented prosperity, left Boston, she says, and sought, in solitude and silence, a higher understanding of the absolute scientific unity which must exist between the teaching and letter of Christianity, and the spirit thereof dwelling forever in the divine Mind or Principle of man's being, and revealed through the human character.
While revising "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," she adds, the light and might of the Divine concurrence of the Spirit and the Word appeared, with the result that an auxiliary to the college was established, called the Church Board of Education, the maximum of whose students, taught annually, is less than one-half the number formerly contained in one class at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, thus giving the opportunity for the accession of Spirit, wherefor the letter should wait.
