On the twenty-sixth of November in 1897, Mrs. Eddy wrote in a letter to Julia Field-King, “People seem to understand C.S. in the exact ratio that they know me and vice versa. It sometimes astonishes me to see the invariableness of this rule.” In March of 1907 when Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World was spearheading an attack and a lawsuit against the Revelator to this age, she said to a student, “The papers are writing up my history; the history of my ancestry; writing lies. My history is a holy one.”

For many years the author has been seeking to know Mrs. Eddy and to learn her holy history. Though she feels she has little more than begun on this vast search, it has been rewarding beyond expectations. This research has convinced her that an understanding of the trials and triumphs of Mary Baker Eddy is essential for those who “would enter by the door.”
The publication of these pages is a small, partial payment toward the great debt we owe to the Discoverer of the Science of Man.

DORIS and MORRIS GREKEL

JESUS called himself the door, and Mrs. Eddy called herself a window. A door is a “passage; means of access.” A window is “an opening in the wall of a building for admission of light.”

Verily, verily I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. . I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and go in and out and find pasture. —John

God has worked through me in this age because He could. The light will come through the window because it will let it, while the wall will not; it would shine through the wall if it could. God is no respecter of persons. Then would you say the wall can let in the light the same as the window? No. Then does one person let in as much light as another? No. Can the one who lets in the light see what is best for the others better than one who does not? Yes. That is the trouble with those outside (the wall); they think they can run things just as well and a little better than I can (the windowpane). How do you know I am a windowpane for the light to shine through? By the works. —Divinity Course and General Collectanea

These two individuals have brought the fatherhood and motherhood of God to our apprehension. They are God’s two witnesses on this planet, the two candlesticks to light the way, the two olive trees.

What are these two olive trees. . . What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves? And he answered me and said, Knowst thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord. Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth. –Revelation 11

After nearly two thousand years, including a thousand years of Dark Ages, the world has acknowledged Jesus’ presentation of the fatherhood of God. All Christendom today says: “Our Father which art in Heaven.”
Must we have another thousand years of dark ages before Mrs. Eddy’s presentation of God’s motherhood is accepted? Is her lifetime of emptying the golden oil out of herself upon all mankind so little appreciated?
In their work to support the lecturers Mrs. Eddy told her students: “A city that is set upon a hill cannot be hid, and the life of their Leader must be shown as it is. Never did I neglect Jesus in my sermons in the first days of Christian Science; now they must not forget me. The scandalous attacks on the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science will stop if the truth about her be shown to the world.”

These pages are intended to show the life of Mary Baker Eddy as it is, and to show to the world the truth about God’s chosen witness, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.

Doris Grekel
Havilah, California

IN an early essay Mrs. Eddy said: “The church created, founded and erected on the rock against which the winds and waves prevail not, is the church triumphant, the indwelling temple of God.” Mary Baker Eddy demonstrated this “indwelling temple of God” in her own life, explained it in Science and Health, and, to help her followers make this demonstration, she set forth rules in her Manual of The Mother’s Church, “Mary Baker Eddy’s Church” (Man. 102).

Mrs. Eddy’s sojourn among mortals was devoted to wakening mankind to spiritual life; and the higher she lifted her voice, the louder did error scream lies about her and her blameless life. In one brief answer to the mountains of falsehoods she said: “Above all the fustian of either denying or asserting the personality or presence of Mary Baker Eddy, stands the eternal fact of Christian Science and the honest history of its Discoverer and Founder.”

It is the author’s hope that the honest history in these pages will help the earnest seeker for Truth to find and to follow the Forever Leader, and thus to “rejoice in the church triumphant.”

Doris Grekel
Havilah, California