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I have never forgotten Mrs. Eddy’s gracious womanliness as she met me and led me to a seat, saying “dear child, did you wish to see me?” After a few generalities she clo...
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In April 1880, Mrs. Eddy delivered a sermon titled “Christian Healing.” The following month it appeared as a pamphlet, becoming the first of her works to be published for the public after Science a...
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and Mrs. Poor’s name be registered alphabetically to take care of the services.1 And to another student, she wrote:...
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know hereafter.” Spoke mostly of Jesus’ healing that was not understood now but shall be and his Christ-character will then be understood. I wish you could see the wild...
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tell a student, “The ship of science is again walking the wave, rising above the billows, bidding defiance to the flood-gates of error, for God is at the helm.”10The next few years were to see a fo...
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Heaven was happiness and not a locality but was the atmosphere of a principle where all was harmony.13 and This tru...
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Christian Science was indeed knocking loudly at the threshold of the public’s thought. The newspapers and churches were more and more raising questions and making criticisms of this new denominatio...
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forgotten to shine, and the planets to revolve around it?”18 Her students had no doubt about her healing abilities. Clara Choate went to Mrs. Eddy one night, asking her to come and help her four-ye...
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way to heal. In answer to one student who said he had been foiled by a case, Mrs. Eddy alluded to Jesus’ words to Simon: “Launch out deeper, Anchor yourself to God.”21 In a note to another she wrot...
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of Christian Science, I shall confine myself to questions and answers.”1 Then she posed and answered the following questions: Am I a spiritualist?I am not, and never was....