In 1898, in a response to prejudicial endemic yellow journalism, she founded "The Christian Science Monitor," a newspaper written ".to injure no man, but to bless all mankind." Though membership has declined in the United States in the 21st century, The Church of Christ, Scientist has branches in 80 countries worldwide and very strong in third-world countries. Her own son did not support her teachings.
MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY MARY BAKER EDDY FULL
For these reasons, she was often attacked for her teachings, and suffered the full fury of Joseph Pulitzer's yellow journalism campaign of freedom of the press vs freedom of religion. Her church gave women a high position in the church in a time when women could not even vote. She taught against traditional Christian core beliefs of God's creation of the world, the Trinity, and the Incarnation of Jesus. After rejecting traditional medical cures, she professed a cure of disease through prayer is seen as a necessary element in the process of redemption. In 1895, she published a church manual, establishing guidelines that are followed to this day, and she founded The Christian Science Publishing Society. In 1894, Christian Scientists moved into their own building, The Mother Church, in Boston. In 1883, the "Journal of Christian Science" was first published, and it still exists in the 21st century as "The Christian Science Journal." Her book "Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896" was considered important enough, that in 1897 she requested her students spend the next year thoroughly reading it, and in 1888, a Christian Science Reading Room was opened in Boston.
In 1879, she secured a charter for the Church of Christ, Scientist, which was established ".to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing." In 1881 she also obtained a charter for the Massachusetts Metaphysical College as a degree-granting institution. She taught her discoveries to others, and in 1877, she married one of her students, Asa Gilbert Eddy. Years of intensive scriptural study, healing work, and teaching followed, culminating in the publication of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" in 1875. It was not enough for her that she was physically healed, she wanted to understand how, and set about studying her Bible. While reading an account of Jesus' healings, she found herself feeling well again, and she referred to this as the moment she discovered Christian Science. She sought alternates to any medical treatments, and in 1866, a fall on an icy sidewalk left her critically injured and bedridden. Chronic illness dogged her and left her desperate for relief. She married for a second time in 1853, but after Daniel Patterson, a dentist, abandoned her in 1866, she finally divorced him in 1873 on grounds of desertion. After she was financially stable, she provided for her in-laws, the Glover family, and education for her grandchildren. In 1856 the Cheney family relocated to Minnesota and Eddy did not see her son again until he was 35 years old. Her son was born the following September, and being penniless and coerced by her parents, she was she forced to give her son to Mahala Cheney and her family. Since she was a pregnant widow, she returned to her family's home. She married for the first time in December of 1843 to George Washington Glover, who died the following June. Her parents were deeply devout Congregationalists, but she rebelled against the doctrine of predestination at an early age. She later attended Holmes Academy at Plymouth and Sanbornton Academy. A sickly child, her formal education was often interrupted by illness, thus she read and studied at home with the guidance of an older brother. Born Mary Morse Baker in Bow, New Hampshire, she was the youngest of Mark and Abigail Baker's six children.
She published numerous periodicals about this faith as teaching tools. She is recognized as the person who founded The Church of Christ, Scientist or as better-known, Christian Science.
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