1. What I love to share with others about this book, We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Vol. II was Mary Baker Eddy’s capacity to love, to express Love. She was continually providing spiritual instruction. Her patience, mentoring and forgiveness were extraordinary and appeared unbounded.
2. I was overwhelmed by Mrs. Eddy’s capacity to love, “her leadership of Love.” (p. 159) To be able to praise or rebuke, without it being attached to a person, because you loved them and wanted them to grow in their spiritual understanding and to serve the Cause of Christian Science touched me deeply, in a way I find difficult to put into words.
Every time Mary Baker Eddy addressed her household in regard to their duty and their responsibility to protect and prosper this Cause, I felt like she was talking to me. I felt the love…and the rebuke. So yes, I am looking at my life and how it must change. The need to unself and the primary need—the necessity to heal.
Mary Baker Eddy’s leadership continues because of her writings, especially Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and the Church Manual. Her leadership is expressed in all that she established, The Mother Church and its branches, The Christian Science Journal, Christian Science Sentinel, and The Christian Science Monitor.
In many ways this message was declared, “The Cause of Christian Science has been established entirely upon healing.” (p. 295) Mary Baker Eddy’s leadership continues as we continue to heal.