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was a few days after my arrival when I heard the bells ringing apparently all over the house. I was still wondering what the commotion was about when Mr. Frye shoved his head through my door and sa...
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purpose, and that was to serve their Leader and to protect her against malicious attacks of mortal mind in her endeavors to give to the world the religion of Christian Science. At this point I can...
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United in our desire to serveI was beginning now to become better acquainted with my duties and with what was expected of Mrs. Eddy’s workers at Chestnut Hill. The household consisted at this time...
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were there because of their experiences in the Field as practitioners and of their ability to handle the claims of evil as they presented themselves. This work was done under the direct supervision...
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and with a degree of harmony that is seldom seen in alteration work of this character.I had always heard that it was difficult for Mrs. Eddy to find people who would carry out her orders implicitly...
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the furniture, the following of a definite rule of Principle makes everything easier.Orderliness and promptness grew to be a habit with the members of Mrs. Eddy’s household. There was a clock in ev...
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title of her textbook, Science and Health, came to her.93Breakfast for the household was served promptly at seven o’clock every morning, and no one needed to be called or sent for. No announcement...
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her grounds proposed to cut the tree down and remove it. Immediately she sent word to him to do nothing of the kind but to do what he could for the tree in his way, while she took the question up a...
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Mother Church, and only once during her residence at Chestnut Hill did she take the time to drive to Falmouth and St. Paul Streets, and then she did not alight but had her first view of The Mother...
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I at once saw the point she was making and replied to her with encouraging statements of [t]ruth from her own book, and in a few moments every trace of the attack had disappeared and she was hersel...