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Major published works and publications
1870 “The Soul’s Enquiries of Man” and untitled commentaries written and copied by hand for her first class to study.
1870 “The Science of Man, By Which the Sick are Healed.” She also wrote a text in 1867, in the form of questions and answers which she used in teaching. This became, in 1870, her first copyrighted work on Christian Science. In 1881 this work, greatly revised by her, became the chapter “Recapitulation” in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, used to this day for teaching Christian Science Primary and Normal classes.
Science and Health, third edition in two volumes
1875 Science and Health, later re-titled Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The manuscript that would become the Christian Science textbook was initially titled The Science of Life. The first edition, re-titled Science and Health, was published in October 1875. New printings were published in runs averaging a thousand copies each. The book was a perpetual work in progress, the author rewriting as she progressed in her own understanding. Some printings involved minor changes. Some were major revisions, such as the fiftieth edition, published in 1891. As the 20th century dawned, she began an especially significant revision for the 226th edition of Science and Health. With this edition, published in January 1902, the book assumed the form familiar to readers today. Chapters were in the final order; lines were numbered in the margins for easy reference; and she added a final chapter, titled “Fruitage” — one hundred pages of testimonies from people who had been healed by reading the book. At the end of the decade, in October 1910, some further changes were made by Mrs. Eddy and incorporated into the edition published in January 1911. From its first publication to today, millions of copies of Science and Health have been published in English and some fifteen other languages.
1880 Christian Healing. First given as a sermon in April 1880.
1883 The People’s God: Its Effect on Health and Christianity. First given as a sermon three years earlier, later re-titled The People’s Idea of God: Its Effect on Health and Christianity.
1887 Rudiments and Rules of Divine Science. Later re-titled Rudimental Divine Science.
1887 Christian Science: No and Yes. Revised and expanded from an earlier work, Defence of Christian Science, published in March 1885. In 1891 she revised the work again and gave it the shorter title, No and Yes.
1888 Unity of Good and Unreality of Evil. Later re-titled Unity of Good.
1891 Retrospection and Introspection. Mrs. Eddy summed up the substance of her life and work in this slim book that is part autobiography, part teaching.
1893 Christ and Christmas. This illustrated poem by Mrs. Eddy with a note of attribution, “Mary Baker Eddy and James F. Gilman, Artists,” was published in December 1893. She withdrew it from circulation the following January and republished it, with a few revisions, in 1897.
1895 Church Manual of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. The first edition of the Church Manual, bylaws “written at different dates, and as the occasion required,” was first published in September 1895, nine months after construction of the church edifice. In November 1910 the final revision of the Manual (89th Edition) was approved by Mrs. Eddy, and was published on December 17, 1910.
1897 Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896. This anthology of Mrs. Eddy’s articles, addresses, and selected letters was collected and edited by her during 1896 and published in February 1897.
1898 Christian Science vs. Pantheism. A communion message from Mrs. Eddy to her church.
1900 Message to the Mother Church for 1900. A message from Mrs. Eddyto her church on the occasion of its annual communion service, June 3, 1900.
1901 Message to the Mother Church for 1901. A message from Mrs. Eddy to her church on the occasion of its annual communion service, June 23, 1901.
1902 Message to the Mother Church for 1902. A message from Mrs. Eddy to her church on the occasion of its annual communion service, June 15, 1902.
1910 Poems. During 1910 Mrs. Eddy edited a selection of her poems for a book that was being printed by November of that year.
1913 The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany. In 1906 Mrs. Eddy copyrighted the title The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany for an anthology that would contain her writings and selected letters and news reports regarding The Mother Church Extension. In August 1909 she reviewed the file containing this manuscript, then instructed it to be set aside and published after her decease. Four years later, in November 1913, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany was published posthumously.
Publications
1883 The Christian Science Journal. This monthly magazine was first called The Journal of Christian Science,issued bi-monthly starting in April 1883. During its first year Mrs. Eddy was both the editor and a principal contributor of articles and poems.
1890 Christian Science Quarterly. Contains citations from the Bible and Science and Health that comprise the weekly Lesson-Sermons. Twenty-six subjects were compiled by Mrs. Eddy in 1898.
1898 Christian Science Sentinel. This weekly magazine enabled Mrs. Eddy to communicate with the growing Christian Science movement more often than was possible with the monthly Journal. It came out first as The Christian Science Weekly in September 1898. A few months later she renamed it Christian Science Sentinel, with the motto: “‘What I say unto you, I say unto all, Watch’ — Jesus” (Mark 13:37).
1903 Der Christian Science Herold. This German-language magazine made its first appearance, setting the precedent for Heralds in French and other languages.
1908 The Christian Science Monitor. On August 8, 1908, Mrs. Eddy instructed the Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society to start a daily newspaper. She named it The Christian Science Monitor. Less than four months later, on November 25, the first issue went on sale. In the hundred-plus years since then, her daily paper has garnered many awards, including seven Pulitzer Prizes.
