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Mrs. Eddy even when you are losing the true meaning of her writings, disobeying her, and having no sense of the error that you are committing. When oblivious of the fact that malicious animal magne...
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material stands for a spiritual idea, then you think that matter is essential to Spirit, and then you have lost the right idea of the Principle of all things and can never demonstrate that God is A...
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sow bears neither immediate nor abundant fruit, it is getting ready for this, and the ripening and the harvest is sure to come at the proper time. My plants are not of the hothouse kind. They must...
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Born in East Windsor, Connecticut, Miss Bartlett studied with Mrs. Eddy in 1880, after which she devoted forty-four unusually active years to the Cause of Christian Science. During the 1880s...
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themselves those propensities of evil that would obstruct the way.UndatedMrs. Eddy said: “How do we see God? Through a perfect man—the divine [i]deal—by having no other mind but God, good.”[She add...
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A Worker in the MassachusettsMetaphysical CollegeEast Windsor, Connecticut, was my native town. My father, who was a progressive, prosperous young man for his day, was highly respected by all who...
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taken from us at only thirty-eight years of age. This all came as a great blow to their family and to the community in which they lived. They were greatly missed, but the teaching and example of th...
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trials were the means of turning my thought more to spiritual things, and although I was like a child groping in the dark, there was always a glimmer of light that brightened my path and sustained,...
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UndatedMother said the rule to work by was [that] nothing comes to me but that [which] God sends. Nothing can go out from me but that [which] God sends. I cannot make anybody suffer, and I can do e...
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our great Master taught the way which must be understood instead of merely believed.As time went on and I was beyond the school days, my thought continued to open to the truth sufficiently to drop...