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student recalled her account, “she dropped the child at her feet and held it by one finger and took the step.”15The moral was as obvious as the feat was unusual.2On February 15, 1889, Mrs. Eddy gav...
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through the efforts of State Detectives Pinkham and Philbrick. The story of this crime, which is almost Borgian, implicates a number of people who have, during the past...
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But four days later she wrote her student John Filbert of the human cost to her, the great lack in the field, and the need for a rethinking of the whole problem: I do not...
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though this is not the experience we should have chosen yet the Master who knoweth better than we hath said it worketh out a more exceeding and eternal weight of glory....
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stand on. Under the circumstances, however, with the newspapers painting uninhibited pictures of the Eddys as mountebanks and criminals, no jury was likely to find for the plaintiff, and the earlie...
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Yet neither the letters nor the outward happenings of this period—not even the powerful directives she issued all through 1889—are an adequate index to the movement of Mrs. Eddy’s thought. It is in...
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manner by some means, instruments and weapons, to said jurors unknown, one Daniel H. Spofford to kill and murder against the law, peace and dignity of said Commonwealth....
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example was right, and is available at the right time. The way is absolute divine Science; walk ye in it; but remember that Science is demonstrated by degrees, and our d...
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In these circumstances it is not too surprising that the Superior Court record in January reads: This indictment was found and returned into Court by the grand jurors at...
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land was acquired and transferred, she invoked the words from II Corinthians: “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds.” The money...