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call it Christian Science, and Moral Science it remained for several more years. In its embryonic state, her system had not yet freed itself entirely from a Quimbyism which was basically incompatib...
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and that was when day and night I watched alone by the couch of death—and Oh! when I think thereon I love to weep . . . but enough—forgive me!55...
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the passage that speaks of her early crude essays in scriptural interpretation as “the first steps of a child in the newly discovered world of Spirit,” Mrs. Eddy goes on to speak of those other ess...
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young widow’s feeling of planlessness: “I have almost relinquished the hope of being at Concord this Summer to take lessons on the Piano; and shall wait at home for some breeze or billow to stir my...
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“real.” To range one’s thinking on the side of being was, she insisted, to have something happen. It was to have reality break through appearance, the Word become flesh.Of words as words she always...
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but she may have urged the Wentworths to raise the money by one means or another, and this may have contributed to a growing coolness on the part of the elder Wentworths. At any rate, no further st...
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sorrow to her as the earlier loss had been, but at the very least it was the loss of a way out, at a moment when loneliness made her particularly vulnerable. Now she would have to search for anothe...
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what do you suppose these were dear Geo?—Philosophy—truth combined with conscience—and affection.”Afterwards the phrenologist asked whether someone present who knew the lady would be “good enough t...
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Next week is the time I have anticipated to visit my Uncle and cousins at Boscawen and the latter part of it go to Fisherville. I have little confidence in the scheme of...
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In 1870 the American edition of a book by a French evangelical leader, E. de Pressensé, was published under the title The Early Years of Christianity. Some years later the book found its way into M...