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Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer
Biographical Glossary | page 497

●   ●   ●    —allowed her then to write her own confession of faith and accepted her in his congregation. Her governess had punished her severely for her apparent stubbornness, but bread and water and a locked room did not compel her to yield and give vows, which even as a child she knew she could not obey.