Historical Sketch.
IN the spring of 1879, a little band of earnest
seekers after Truth went into deliberations over
forming a church without creeds, to be called the
“Church of Christ, Scientist.” They were
members of evangelical churches, and students of Mrs.
Mary Baker Eddy in Christian Science, and were
known as “Christian Scientists.”
At a meeting of the Christian Scientist Association, April 19, 1879, on motion of Mrs. Eddy, it was voted, — To organize a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.
Mrs. Eddy was appointed on the committee to draft the Tenets of The Mother Church — the chief corner-stone whereof is, that Christian Science, as taught and demonstrated by our Master, casts out error, heals the sick, and restores the lost Israel:
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