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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....
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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...