MRS. EDDY began her work of healing and teaching at Lynn, Massachusetts, and its benign influence was felt in Salem, Ipswich, Amesbury, Stoughton, Haverhill, Newburyport, Boston, and in such environs of Boston as Charlestown, Roxbury, and Cambridge.
In 1878 her students in Boston appealed to her to give lectures in that city, and in consequence she preached and lectured in the church at the corner of Madison Street and Shawmut Avenue, also in Fraternity Hall in the Parker Memorial on Berkeley Street, and in Hawthorne Hall, Park Street.
Mrs. Eddy's work had so enlarged her field of labor that by 1881 she realized the necessity of having graded courses for the study of her teachings, also an institution in which students could be taught and degrees awarded, and on January 31, 1881, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts granted the charter for the Massachusetts Metaphysical College.
