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.
In the year 1885, less than two decades after her initial discovery of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy wrote: "There are abroad at this early date some grossly incorrect and false teachers of what they term Christian Science; of such beware. They have risen up in a day to make this claim; whereas the Founder of genuine Christian Science has been all her years in giving it birth."Miscellaneous Writings, p. 39.
Twenty-five years later, when her work of discovery and founding was almost completed, the statement still held true. For "all her years" she had literally been giving birth to the Christian Science movement. And for all the years of discovery and founding, false teachers endeavoring to set Christian Science on a new course had been springing up "in a day"—only to fade off one by one into twilight obscurity.
