EDDY IN WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME

According to a news service report in the Washington Post, Mary Baker Eddy has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Eddy, who founded the Church of Christ, Scientist in the 19th century, was among 18 American women installed during the mid-October ceremonies in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

The news item said Eddy s selection was attributed to her being “the only American woman to found a lasting American-based denomination.” The report, however, did not say what category Ellen G. White (Seventh-Day Adventist) or Aimee Semple McPherson (International Church of the Foursquare Gospel) would fall into.

Eddy began developing the tenets of her mystical theology in the 1860s, wrote Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures in 1875, and officially founded the church in 1879.

—MKG

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