This series of articles focuses on the healings brought about by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Some of these healings have not been published previously.
Before Mary Baker Eddy was ever a teacher, author, or founder, she was a healer. As she went forward in her life to fulfill these divinely motivated roles, in order to share Christian Science with mankind, she never stopped healing. In fact, she would not have been able to carry out the duties that each of these roles demanded, without her God-given ability to heal. It permeated everything she did.
In 1871, Mrs. Eddy was focusing her efforts primarily on teaching. At that time, the people of Lynn, Massachusetts, knew her as Mrs. Mary Glover. She taught classes in Moral Science in the evenings in the same building as Susie Magoun's school for young girls, where Mrs. Glover also lived. One day Miss Magoun told her about a girl in her school who was mute, but could hear perfectly well. Mrs. Eddy wrote about this in 1898:
