Oil on canvas portrait from life by S. Seymour Thomas
Original Longyear Collection, Longyear Museum, AW0226

MAURINE R. CAMPBELL, C.S.B.
Maurine Campbell became interested in Christian Science in December 1886 when, apparently not expected to live due to a severe eye injury and heart trouble, her sister and friends strongly urged her to read the textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. In hopes that perhaps a Christian Science practitioner could help her, she entered a Christian Science class being taught by Mary E. Harris in Des Moines, Iowa, and received a copy of Science and Health for the first time on her third day of class. She began to read and study, and was gradually healed.
In 1889, she responded to a call to move to Boston to work for The Christian Science Publishing Society, and was subsequently assigned by Mrs. Eddy to the Editorial Department. In 1891, she organized the "Busy Bees," Christian Science children whose donations of funds completed and furnished a room for Mrs. Eddy in the Original Edifice of The Mother Church. In 1897 she was appointed to the Bible Lesson Committee. For three years, 1902-1905, she lived in China as a companion to the wife of the American Foreign Minister, and assisted with Christian Science Sunday services in Peking. Miss Campbell took Normal class in 1907 under the Christian Science Board of Education, and was a Christian Science teacher in California for many years. She is especially known for two prayers in poem form she wrote for children titled "Evening" and "Morning."