When in 1867 Mary Baker Eddy first began to take pupils in order to teach them the Science of Christ, she taught from the Bible and she also turned these students to the Scriptures. Today, the Christian Science Quarterly Weekly ... Bible Lessons, whose topics she chose, fulfill a major role in helping anyone who studies them stay close to the Bible and explore its healing, spiritual meaning. This series offers some brief notes on the evolution of these Lessons.
Spring 1898 As a final prayerful step in establishing a unifying foundation for Bible study and sermons for her Church, Mrs. Eddy directed the Bible Lesson Committee to begin developing Lesson-Sermons from twenty-six specific subjects that she provided. These Lessons first appeared in the July-September issue. Through the last quarter of 1898 and the first quarter of 1899, the Quarterly continued carrying the Lessons based on the "Uniform Series of the International Sunday-School Bible Lessons" in addition to those now being prepared from Mrs. Eddy's subjects. In Christian Science churches with a second service on Sunday, the practice was for the International Bible Lesson to be used at that second Sunday service. However, beginning with the April-June 1899 Quarterly, the "International Series" Lessons were dropped completely and second services became a repetition of those given in the morning.
It wasn't too long before a group of members, feeling that the Quarterly should offer more than twenty-six subjects, at least one for each week in the year, submitted an expanded list to Mrs. Eddy.
