Mrs. Eddy pursued two careers: first as a poet, later as leader of a religious movement.
Five years before her passing, the following poem by Mary Baker Eddy was published in the Journal's April 1905 issue:
Father, did'st not Thou the dark wave treading
Lift from despair the struggler with the sea?
And heedest Thou not the scalding tear man's shedding,
And knowest Thou not the pathway glad and free?
