At this hour of the twentieth century, rich in its promise of greater spiritual development and unfoldment, it is helpful to discern clearly the place of our beloved Leader in the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and her relationship to the Church of Christ, Scientist, and the Christian Science movement. In 1866 in fulfillment of prophecy, Mary Baker Eddy discovered the operative power of the Christ, Truth, in its full and final revelation. This spiritually-minded woman discerned the demonstrable Science underlying the teachings of Christ Jesus and has made it available once more to bless us all.
On pages 559 and 560 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy says: "The twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse, or Revelation of St. John, has a special suggestiveness in connection with the nineteenth century. In the opening of the sixth seal, typical of six thousand years since Adam, the distinctive feature has reference to the present age." Mrs. Eddy presented in her discovery the spiritual idea of God symbolized by the woman in the Apocalypse, where it is recorded (Rev. 12:1), "There appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars." Mrs. Eddy's place in Christian history was to reveal the Comforter promised by Christ Jesus. The Master taught God's fatherhood, and in her revelation Mrs. Eddy presented the motherhood of God.
Our beloved Leader is God's messenger to this age; the woman who, in fulfillment of divine prophecy, discovered the Science of Christian healing and presented it to mankind. Sometimes there is a temptation to separate Mrs. Eddy from her revelation, as an excerpt from a testimony by an early worker in our movement indicates. This worker says that he attended the weekly testimony meetings in The Mother Church, and although appreciative of Christian Science, he resented reference to Mrs. Eddy. He writes that "one evening one of Mrs. Eddy's own students arose in the meeting and said in part, 'You can no more separate Mrs. Eddy from Science and Health than you can Moses from the Commandments, or Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount.'" This early worker continues: "These statements healed me of my wrong thought toward Mrs. Eddy. With this healing I began to grow in the understanding of the teachings of Christian Science" (We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Third Series, pp. 3,4).
