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bed with a most distressing hip trouble. . . . Finally the pain became so intense that my dear courageous mother found herself overwhelmed with discourage...
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Mrs. Dunbar’s only child, a daughter then about four or five years of age, never had walked. She could creep on her hands and knees but below her knees the bone had neve...
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It was not at all uncommon for healings to result from Mrs. Eddy’s public speaking. A young woman from Germany, Bertha Reinke, who had come to America to study medicine and also hoped to find a cur...
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“Why, that was Mrs. Eddy!”—Mrs. Eddy?! I had never heard the name before—I left the hall free and well.9 One of the most outstanding examples...
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. . . At one time in Lynn I had something like one hundred cases, but a student was perceptively the practitioner. I refused to take patients because I wa...
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As Mary Baker Eddy went forward in her life as teacher, author, and founder, sharing Christian Science with mankind, she never stopped healing. In fact, she would not have been able to carry out th...
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Mrs. Glover tried earnestly to teach those interested in learning how to heal quickly and completely just as she did. For the most part, her students came from the working-class people of Lynn. The...
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Recognizing her students’ need for growth, Mrs. Glover told them “to practice as best they could,” working with what they understood. This meant that some resorted to rubbing the heads of their pat...
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Mrs. Eddy in 1871 had] shut out what the physicians had said and everything else from the [material] sense side.”5In healing, Mrs. Eddy could speak with authority because of the depth of her...
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the beginning of 1872, that they must drop it completely from their practice, this caused a stir with some of them. Her second student, Richard Kennedy, refused to comply. She tried for a time to m...