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Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer
Defender of the Cause | page 133
Chapter 10

Defender of the Cause

(1885–1887)

The mental atmosphere in Boston’s Tremont Temple on March 16, 1885, would likely have been daunting to most speakers trying to explain what must have seemed a very different way of being a Christian. The thoughts of the nearly three thousand attendants ranged from benignly curious to highly skeptical to openly hostile.