Study of the Bible and the writings of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, is primary. Beyond this, we are helped to catch a gleam of her great vision by digging deep into her authorized biographies, obtainable at all Christian Science Reading Rooms. Each presents this unique benefactor from a different angle.
One can't peruse the authorized biographies long without concluding that Mrs. Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science, lived what she taught and wrote. Those intimately associated with her indicate this. She lived with her Bible. She pored over what she had received and written down through divine inspiration. We need to follow this example of diligence with all our heart. As we do so, our appreciation of our great benefactor grows rich.
She herself once wrote: "All the people need, in order to love and adopt Christian Science, is the true sense of its Founder. In proportion as they have it, will our Cause advance." We Knew Mary Baker Eddy (Boston: The Christian Science Publishing Society, 1979), p. 119. In these biographies we find word pictures of her from the little girl who would climb out of bed if she heard the pigs squealing at night and comfort them,See Irving C. Tomlinson, Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy (Boston: The Christian Science Publishing Society, 1966), p. 13. to the woman who dug into her Bible until she could demonstrate the method of spiritual healing illustrated in its pages and give the Science underlying this method to the whole world through her writings.
