Even considered only as a chronicle of human achievements, Mrs Eddy's life story is an impressive one indeed. Beginning her career in midlife, and working in an environment fundamentally hostile to the assumption of leadership roles by women, she discovered the Science of Christ and demonstrated its capability through healing; wrote and published the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and many other works to define and describe the nature and demands of this Science; and established an educational system through which its requirements could be adequately and precisely taught. Besides her own voluminous writings she also founded quarterly, monthly, and weekly periodicals, and a major international daily newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor. She also devised a unique organizational system through which the operations of The Mother Church and its branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, could continue into the future.
The list of her human accomplishments is of course far more extensive than the brief summary just given, but from the viewpoint of mankind's spiritual development, Mrs. Eddy accomplished one central mission. She brought to the apprehension of mankind the Comforter promised by Christ Jesus, who had said, "I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever." He also said, "The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." John 14:16, 26.
All the things that Mrs Eddy accomplished in establishing Christian Science were but different facets of receiving God's revelation of the Comforter, Divine Science, and reducing it to human perception. She was divinely led to establish Christian Science on a foundation that would enable it to "abide . . . for ever."
