THESE DAYS ON THE MAIN FLOOR of the Mary Baker Eddy Library is an exhibit of one of her handsome carriages. The theme of the display is "Private carriage, public journey." It describes her daily drives and refers to healings others had through momentary contact with her as she passed by.
In this era when so many are either planning or taking a vacation, some will be amazed to learn that for the last decade or so of her life, these brief carriage rides were almost the only breaks she allowed herself from a schedule of constant toil.
By any reasonable standard, hers was an unusual life. From girlhood, she felt a tender yearning to relieve human suffering, and she cherished an intuitive conviction that somewhere, if she could only find it, was a divine Principle on which all life rested and through which health could be restored.
