


Advice to Healers Collection
Advice to Healers Collection Selected letters by Mary Baker Eddy from the Library’s collection are available for purchase. They shed light on Eddy’s own spiritual growth, her loving care for and counsel to students, as well as on her spiritual insights and healing...
Webcast: Revelations — What Scholars Learn from the Mary Baker Eddy Collection
Dr. David Holland, a Research Fellow at The Mary Baker Eddy Library and Associate Professor of North American Religious History at the Harvard Divinity School, and Mike Davis, Senior Researcher at The Mary Baker Eddy Library, held an online audiocast discussion, with questions from the public, on how The Mary Baker Eddy Library collections are bringing about new understanding of Mary Baker Eddy.

Photo of George Glover III: “the dear little fellow”
Mary Baker Eddy treasured this framed photograph of her grandson George W. Glover III, which she kept on display in her living room.

Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and Mary Baker Eddy
To commemorate the publication of the Emancipation Proclamation, artist Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1830-1900) sought to depict President Lincoln reading it to his cabinet in September 1862.

Laying the cornerstone: “Let this ceremony be simple, prayerful, devout.”
One hundred and twenty years ago this month (January 6, 1895), the original Mother Church edifice was dedicated in Boston. Its cornerstone had been laid less than eight months before.