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15 Tips for Caring for Your Books
In order to protect their objects and archival materials, libraries and museums follow professional practices to promote long-term preservation. Your home, church, Reading Room, or workplace may not meet the somewhat rigorous standards of libraries and museums. But the following tips, adapted from professional standards, will still help you care for your books.
Article III, Section 6: “Readers in Branch Churches”
This page is focused on the final two sentences of this By-Law: "They shall make no remarks explanatory of the LESSON-SERMON at any time, but they shall read all notices and remarks that may be printed in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE QUARTERLY. This By-Law applies to Readers...
“Set free the captive”: Mary Baker Eddy and prison reform
Read about Eddy’s long-standing commitment to helping prisoners.
What is the Historical Background of No and Yes by Mary Baker Eddy?
No and Yes began as an article in The Christian Science Journal of March 7, 1885, titled “Defence of Christian Science.”
“…about all I possessed”: Mary Baker Eddy’s Rocking Chair
Most of us have a memory of being rocked as a child and of the comfort that brought. The rocking chair seemed to have great comforting significance to Mary Baker Eddy…
The Development of the Spiritual Interpretation to the Lord’s Prayer
The attached document contains information on changes made over time to each line of the Lord’s Prayer and its spiritual interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy.
Was Einstein interested in Christian Science?
Find out what we’ve learned about his interactions with the religion and its teachings.
Foods Prepared and Consumed in Mary Baker Eddy’s Household
The most complete information on Eddy’s diet starts with her 1892 move to Pleasant View, her home in Concord, New Hampshire. Members of her household wrote reminiscences of their time with her and detailed foods they ate. Minnie Weygandt, who served as Eddy’s cook...
The Background of Mary Baker Eddy’s Letter “To Students” in Miscellaneous Writings
“To Students” is a message to Christian Scientists, and was written following several events that had taken place in early October 1893. The piece...
The Anecdote of the Man with Cholera on page 154 of Science and Health
The anecdote reads as follows: "The man was made to believe that he occupied a bed where a cholera patient had died. Immediately the symptoms of this disease appeared, and the man died. The fact was, that he had not caught the cholera by material contact, because no...
Why does the Library publish Eddy’s correspondence?
See how the answer is in accord with the Church Manual.
Christian Science and the Constitution
Did Mary Baker Eddy see a connection?
Has the Monitor ever endorsed a presidential candidate?
Here’s the story, straight from our researchers.
What is the background on the Oxford University essay mentioned in Science and Health?
Here’s an answer to something our patrons often ask about.
Did Eddy authorize the 89th edition of the Manual?
Here’s interesting background on the question and the answer.
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