Links to Selected Items on Christian Science in Google Books

This page is to call your attention to the written works on Christian Science on Google Books. Some were published by the Christian Science Publishing Society, but are now in the public domain; some were early editions of Mary Baker Eddy's writings; and some were written by Christian Scientists prominent in the Cause of Christian Science during the early years, like Judge Septimus J. Hanna and Edward A. Kimball. There is also an entire issue of the Christian Science Journal (1902)!

I noticed that a considerable amount were digitized from Harvard's Library.

http://www.google.com/ig/adde?moduleurl=books/library_gadget.xml&source=imag

See page 136 in the above excerpt of Prayer in Stone, by Paul Eli Ivey, for an appreciation of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and Christian Science's part in it, which initiated a rapid growth of Christian Science churches in Chicago--a total of eight, in 1910.

Beginning on the bottom of Page 144, there is more interesting detail on the influence of Christian Science at the Exposition.

The lead article in the Christian Science Journal of November, 1893, Vol. XI, No. 8, page 337, is entitled, "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AT THE WORLD'S RELIGIOUS CONGRESS," It presents in great detail Christian Science activities at the World's Fair.

Robert Peel writes extensively about Mrs, Eddy's reluctance to presenting Christian Science at the World's Fair from the beginning, what transpired throughout this presentation of Christian Science, and what he saw was the underlying reason for her reluctance. This appears on pages 47 to 59 in his book, Mary Baker Eddy The Years of Authority.

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) presented a documentary on the Columbian Exposition that for me put this whole venture in a context that I could really appreciate, as I had previously read the Journal article mentioned above. I recorded the documentary, because it was so well done.