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.
All Christian Scientists are familiar with Mrs. Eddy's absolute definition of "Church" in the Glossary of Science and Health: "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle." Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 583
What is presented in this definition is Church as divine order, eternal, infinite, all-inclusive, the structure of reality itself. Every one of God's children must be embraced forever within this wholly spiritual structure of thought—a structure that is coextensive with man's true being as "the compound idea of God, including all right ideas . . . ." Ibid., p. 475
