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making them do double service and distributing the love and joy that their presence brought.To the students who were close to her, she frequently made gifts of money or some valuable article of jew...
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give her consent. When it was explained to her that the statue had been ordered with her permission, and that the Directors felt under obligation to take it, this brought forth from her a very deci...
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Then she said to me, “Mr. Dickey, people say I am changeable—that I change my mind frequently.” Then she added this in a most significant way: I do change my mind frequen...
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approval. It passed through my hands, and I took it to her, stating that the author wished to issue this in printed form for extensive circulation. Without a moment’s hesitation, she said, “No, tha...
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value on the verbal utterances of a practitioner and usually preferred that the mental workers should make their statements audibly. If there was any flaw in their work, she could instantly detect...
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I remember that on one occasion when a student in Mrs. Eddy’s house was corrected because of an unscientific statement she [had] made, Mrs. Eddy called her severely to account for her work in the p...
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Stewart’s definition of the word by consulting the dictionary, where it defined hecatomb as “a sacrifice of the slaughter of one hundred cattle or oxen at the same time.” It seemed at that time to...
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A letter received from a lady in England called attention to a statement made by Mrs. Eddy in Miscellaneous Writings: 1883–1896 in reply to an English critic (see pp. 294–297). She referred to him...
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this was obtained, the order was put through for a change in the plates, and when this was done, Mrs. Eddy was notified that the final arrangements were completed, and then the editions containing...
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read with a great deal of pleasure. I found that, in her isolated position, she came in very little contact with the outside Field, and only through the avenue opened by these letters to our Leader...