The founding of The Mother Church and the development of its Manual are more than past history. They bring to light the spiritual design for the whole future development of the Christian Science movement. To see this is to feel the power of the spiritual vision that enabled Mary Baker Eddy to found her Church on a timeless basis and foresee the needs that would confront it in the future. This four-part series, by the author and biographer Robert Peel, is based on his extensive historical research. It provides factual answers to distortions and misrepresentations currently circulating, which would work to destroy The Mother Church and frustrate its Founder's divinely inspired purpose.
Is it true, as some have claimed, that the Discoverer of Christian Science was reluctantly pushed into forming The Mother Church by the clamorous desire of her followers for a human organization? Nothing could be further from the truth.See first article of series, in the June Journal. The initiative, as well as the demonstration, was decisively hers. Her rejoicing in the steps taken in 1892 to establish The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston is evident in all that she wrote at that period.
Two months before the formal act of organization, she wrote in a personal memorandum that she had been trying to have others carry out God's plans in the matter of church building instead of being involved in it herself. But they had met with no success, and she now saw why. It was because they apparently were unable to hear and obey God's voice unless it came to them through her, so she must take up the task and direct the matter to its conclusion.Archives of The Mother Church.
