CONTENTS Preface: God's Perfect Child 1 At the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Mercer Island * Raising the Dead * The Cross and The Crown * I Tip My Hat Part I. Mary Baker Eddy: "Mere Historic Incidents" 25 "A Very General Acquaintance" * "Mere Historic Incidents" * "An Agreeable Variety of Pain" * Mother Mary * "Gems of Truth" and "Dewdrops of Wisdom" * Dr. P. P. Quimby and His Disciple * The Fall in Lynn * Healing and Head-­Rubbing * Science and Health, First Edition * "A Touch of Fanaticism" * "I Shall Never Again Trust a Man" * "Take Up Spofford" * "A Demonic Strain" * Science and Health, Second and Third Editions * "Mesmeric Poison" Part II. "You Will Have to Learn to Love Me More": Mrs. Eddy Builds Her Empire 93 Footman Frye * The Boston Craze * "Mind-­Quacks" * At the Massachusetts Metaphysical College * Metaphysical Obstetrics * Another Son * The Mother Church * M.A.

M. at Pleasant View * "A Power Not One's Own" * The C.O.P. and "The Corrective Work" * Mark Twain and "That Shameless Old Swindler, Mother Eddy" * Radical Reliance and Mrs. Eddy's Teeth * The "Excelsior Extension" and the "Next Friends" * Willa Cather's Secret * "Call It the Christian Science Monitor" * The Stetson Problem * "A Combination of Sinners That Was Fast" * Science and Health, 1910 Edition * Postscript: "Mrs. Eddy's Place" Part III. "Nothing Has Gone Right Since 1910": Christian Science After Death 195 The Telephone in the Tomb * The Great Litigation * Lady Astor Leads the Way * Nothing Succeeds Like Supply * "Three Cheers for the Christian Scientists" * Healing in Hollywood * "The Blight That Failed" * Paul Revere Rides Again * Behind the Scenes with the Metaphysicians * "The President's Son of a Bitch" * The Kerry Letters Part IV.

"God's Law": Christian Science Goes to Court 299 Breaking the Law * Writing the Law * The Child Cases * Gaslight * Fruitage * Inside the Sanatoriums * The Child Cases Come to Boston Part V. "God's Requirement": Christian Science on the Air 393 Mrs. Eddy and Mr. Ed * "To Live for All Mankind" * "Betting the Company" * "One Spooky Operation" * "USA Yesterday" * "The Big Room" * The Dissidents and The Destiny of The Mother Church * The Facts * "Schisms in Our Church" * A Cancer * "My Child Is Dead" Part VI. "God Will Do the Rest": Resurrecting Christian Science 457 "God Will Do the Rest" * Science and Health for the New Age * Accentuating the Positive * Eliminating the Negative * Remarkable Providences Afterword: The Church That Can't Heal Itself 517 Acknowledgments 529 Glossary 531 Notes 541 Selected and Annotated Bibliography 619 Index 629.