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about her and Christian Science. In a meeting of her students in Boston on May 6, the minutes record that “Mrs. E. Hopkins made a very satisfactory report for the Com. on Publication. Several Paper...
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We have God on our side to meet all questions, and I have never found an hour when He would not deliver me.4 Mrs. Eddy’s ability to hush morta...
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student, Mrs. Eddy healed a furniture salesman of an abscess on his eye. (See page 330–331.)At the end of 1884, a Boston University professor had made a rather sarcastic public offer of one thousan...
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healing. At the end of July she engaged a Unitarian, the Reverend James Henry Wiggin, as an editorial assistant to help her.9 At that time students had no way of easily locating ideas or subjects i...
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healing. Regardless of the unique aspects of each, and for all their differences, they were simply various forms of mentally directed willpower, or mesmerism. The problem was that they claimed to s...
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associating with Christian Science, they were highly antagonistic toward Mrs. Eddy, many falsely accusing her of stealing Science from Phineas Quimby.Mrs. Eddy saw great danger in this. For her, me...
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Christian healing—this is what distinguished Christian Science and Mrs. Eddy from the mind-curists, who prescribed less demanding paths without the Christian cross to bear. Yet the heart of Christi...
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When George Glover, Mary Baker Eddy’s son, wrote that he, his wife, and their three children were coming to Boston to spend the winter of 1887–88 with her, the news came at an especially busy time...
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Chickering Hall was crowded Feb. 26, for a service which has long been desired by many of the members of the church. . . . twenty-nine children, including...
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Halfway through, twelve young ladies each answered a question, responding with a passage from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The Pastor’s grandchildren, Edward, Evelyn, and Mary Glo...