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Illustration of a carriage circling a reservoir near Chestnut Hill her alone. If one left the room, the other always remained. Even when she had callers, she would tell me to stay in her bedr...
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would call the students together to join in the singing, and occasionally she would give us a talk on Science. Mr. Rathvon would sometimes keep time with his foot while we were singing, and she wou...
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for her drive, I looked out as usual to see if the carriage was at the door. It was not, so I called Mr. Frye. He made investigations and found that no one had seen Burt that day. There were severa...
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who was not a Christian Scientist—wanted to get it where he would pass it. Laura also told me that when he was reading the proof sheets of Science and Health, he kept sending back to Mrs. Eddy the...
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would pencil it in the book, then call Mr. Frye, and tell him to send it to the publisher. Whenever a revision was made, the copy she was using was changed for the new edition as soon as it came ou...
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Christian Science student’s affection, fidelity, and devotion are born in the furnace and blossom in wisdom won by experience. This is the price and reward of taking one’s treasure out of material...
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and matter. He was not a Scientist and could not answer her; he tried but got all balled up. He scratched his head and looked rather confused. Mrs. Eddy then said something humorous which made him...
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overcome it ourselves. One day Laura Sargent seemed to be quite ill, and Mrs. Eddy noticed it and rebuked it. When Laura left the room, she was no better, apparently, but later in the day found tha...
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Church for 1902, and her eyes rested on this paragraph: “Are earth’s pleasures, its ties and its treasures, taken away from you? It is divine Love that doeth it, and sayeth, ‘Ye have need of all th...
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counted the days. At last she was told that the first copy would be ready the day before Thanksgiving.She took an interest in every detail; samples of paper and type were brought to her, and a samp...