Interesting piece!

In the future, please avoid posting something unless you have better documentation about its origin. It's hard to know whether the the kind of thing you posted is myth or genuine. In this case I'll let your post stand because I have information to back up the idea that MBE expected her students to be able to control the weather. It comes from the writings of her personal secretary Adam Dickey and I discuss it in the chapter of my book entitled "Mystical Manipulation." I'll just copy the section from my book (I can get away with this because I hold the copyright)

Here it is:

"The weather—Mrs. Eddy blamed animal magnetism for unpleasant weather. She detested thunderstorms and heavy snowfalls, as she considered them to be manifestations of error. She appointed members of her household and also a special committee in Boston to deal with the weather on a spiritual level. Her explanation of their role in this matter provides a good explanation of how a Christian Science treatment works:

A Christian Scientist has no business attempting to control or govern the weather any more than he has a right to attempt to control or govern sickness, but he does know, and must know, that God governs the weather and no other influence can be brought to bear upon it. When we destroy mortal mind’s belief that it is a creator, and that it produces all sorts of weather, good as well as bad, we shall then realize God’s perfect weather and be the recipients of His bounty in that respect. God’s weather is always right. A certain amount of rain and sunshine is natural and normal, and we have no right to interfere with the stately operations of divine wisdom in regulating meteorological conditions. . . . the weather belongs to God, and when we destroy the operations of mortal mind and leave the question of regulating the weather to God, we shall have weather conditions as they should be.21

Dickey continues,

I have heard our Leader describe in a number of instances how she has dissipated a thunder cloud by simply looking upon it and bringing to bear upon mortal mind’s concept of this manifestation of discord what God really has prepared for us, and she illustrated this by a wave of her hand indicating the total disappearance of the thunder cloud and its accompanying threat.22

Regardless of her statement that no Christian Scientist has the right to control the weather, the result of her orders was that her students were held directly responsible for bad weather. This is illustrated by their reaction to Dickey’s announcement that he had been delayed by a widespread snowstorm while traveling to Mrs. Eddy’s home for the first time. Upon hearing the news, Calvin Frye stated that Mrs. Eddy should be told at once about the widespread nature of the storm. Dickey explains:

It seems that this particular snowfall had been the cause of considerable damage, and the workers in her household felt that they might be excused for their failure to control the snow if Mrs. Eddy were informed that the storm was almost country-wide and not confined to New England.23

One of her “watches,” dated 15 January 1910, asked her workers to “make a law that there shall be no more snow this season”24—and this was in New England in January!

[References in the text are from: Adan H. Dickey, Memories of Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 19, 7,18.

The passage quoted is from L. Kramer, The Religion That Kills, pp. 120-22.]

Once when we had a hurricane, the water was coming up to the house, and while we were jacking up the appliances and things, it stopped--and retreated!  My mother, a Journal-listed practitioner, said that she had been praying over the storm, and at a certain point she knew it wouldn't affect us.  The wind had changed!

Years later, the natural explanation occurred to me.  Long Island Sound is shaped something like a funnel, wide on the Eastern opening, and very narrow at its West ("Hellgage," at the East River, NYC).  As the circular motion of the hurricane proceed on its course, the leading edge of the hurricane whipped the wind into the Sound.  Then, as it departed, the trailing edge pushed it out!

A miracle!  My, such metaphysics!

Moving on, here is a bit of common-sense theology of nature given to us by a humble itinerant preacher: 

If we were talking about having company to the lake house my MIL would insert a comment like...'You KNOW there will be no rain" .  Or if we were going to have a picnic...a similar remark.  I remember thinking...well what if the Christian Scientist next door wants it to rain on his water starved garden that day....is he going to KNOW that it will rain? She often took credit for changing the weather to suit her current needs. I had to wonder though, what the problem had been when it rained for one of her family events where a sunny day would have been preferable. Did her CS family ever THINK...gee mom takes credit one day for shooing a thunderstorm away from a party, so why doesnt that work all the time?  Maybe she really didnt send it away but some wind did.

Reading the crazy comments in this thread is just startling to me and I have lots of questions and comments.

*How many of you were taught to control the weather.  Did you really believe that you could? And if you could, did you find it successful all the time..and if not.. how did you reconcile that with your belief that weather can be controlled?

*In light of the hundreds of people who die each year because of the "weather", in tornadoes, hurricanes, snowstorms, lightning...doesnt a Christian Scientist wonder why we even HAVE weather issues, if practitioners/teachers/all CSers out there could just be thinking it away? 

*I would gather that the rationale behind controlling the weather is that there IS no earth, and thus no weather right?  Its all a dream, of sorts, and in the perfect spirital idea everything would be just puuuurfect right?  (Of course, Christian Scientists have only a PERSONAL idea of what perfect is because its pretty clear to me there is no real logic to the way they think. Perfect is what YOU need on that specific day....like sunshine on the picnic, rain on the tomatoes,  no snow for the traveller while the CS ski resort owner would be KNOWING there WOULD be snow.) So why then the comment by MBE that "God governs the weather" ?  What weather?  Isnt that admitting the planet?  Also,  I just dont get why rain should be not of God, snow not of God, sultry weather not of God.

*"We make our own atmosphere"  This would follow then that CSers would make the BEST astronauts because they would not need a space suit right?

*I DO wonder why MBE did not start talking like there ought to be daylight 24/7.  Why put up with night when you can have day all the time...if there is no spinning planet and thus no weather system, then why even night and day?

*I visited the Christian Science.com web site and found the "testimony of a practitioner who tells of seeing a cat being brought to the vet and seeing it from a distance he declares it dead,  so he did his work and the cat is brought out of the vet alive and he, of course, decides that its his healing.  I relate this to the weather as its JUST the same self congratulatory CSSPEAK that flows out of the mouths of these self rightous people who love to tell everyone they can send thunder clouds away at will and raise the dead.....but...they cant seem to do it all the time.  I just wonder then, if he had this power to raise pets from the dead why he doesnt volunteer to go there and do it everytime. Honestly, I certainly would...if I had the power to do that...it would seem a horrible crime not to do it.  Or volunteer at the local emergency room at least one night a week for gosh sakes!!

*This just leads me to ask you all this question.  I have witnessed Christian Scientists literally putting their lives on the line because they listen to this CSSPEAK and in thier hearts they BELIEVE they can get a healing from the most dire illnesses. YET, their whole lives they have witnessed CSers including themselves, get eyeglasses to fix sight problems, get broken bones set, cavities filled, and hearing aids for hearing problems.  I have seen them suffer with non-life threatening illnesses for years without heallings....but when something serious happens they believe THAT will be healed.  Tell me how you rationalize not being able to heal your eyesight but gambling your life that you can heal congestive heart failure? 

Its all just SO crazy, and people are suffering and dying for it.  WHAT are these people thinking?  WHAT was Mark's mother thinking when he is not getting a healinig and suffering...and she claims to everyone she healed him?  Its just like this guy who claims to have brought the cat back from the dead...its exhalting themselves in the eyes of others  and its just so anti-christian...to my way of thinking.

*sigh* 

Square Peg