You might say my family’s “contact” with the Founder of Christian Science and her teachings occurred at the end of her career. At that time, after several tragic years, my grandfather was healed of alcoholism by a Spanish countess, an American by birth, who had become a Christian Science practitioner. After about 25 years, the countess retired to the Christian Science Pleasant View Home, at the site of Mary Baker Eddy’s former residence in New Hampshire. I worked there one summer many years later.
Following college, I received Christian Science class instruction from a pupil of Adam Dickey, one of Eddy’s secretaries. And my teacher spoke of things Dickey had told him about conversations with her, making her seem even closer to me.
This is all by way of saying that for a long time my family and I have felt a nearness to Mary Baker Eddy’s life. So as an adult, I decided to discover if anyone remained who had known her personally. There turned out to be a few, including her maid, Adelaide Still.
