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their school (which is about one quarter of a mile distant) will commence in a few weeks and I am anxious to have him attend. But Oh! how I miss him already! There seems...
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promising students who thronged Kennedy’s waiting room. On July 15 she wrote Sarah Bagley: “I have all calling on me for instruction. . . . Richard is literally overrun with patients...
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be endowed with the title of “doctor,” as Quimby had been a decade earlier and as Kennedy now was.This was the period when medical practice was popularly defined as “scientific guessing” and when o...
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Even in the teeming, bustling America of that day a doubt sometimes slid across men’s minds as to whether it might not all be an illusion. Such a doubt found expression, for instance, in an 1847 es...
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[They] still declare that what they got from her was beyond equivalent in gold or silver. They speak of a certain spiritual or emotional exaltation which she was able to...
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lovely, inimitable, of wisdom and philosophy; all their charms will there be displayed.The imperfection of language will be no hindrance to the acquisition of ideas, as...
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As in every subsequent class of Mrs. Eddy’s, the instruction began with a direct confrontation of the question, “What is God?” People who had thought of Him as either a wrathful or a benign old gen...
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The submissiveness did not always come easily, but her later experience shows that when she rebelled the rebellion came from that same deep wellspring—the perpetually renewed conviction of God’s go...
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Again and again she insisted that God is not “personal.” It is evident that to her the words “person” and “personal” implied a human or physical being, and in this she was supported by the regnant...
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and bear the blows in your turn; as it is you all have enough to suffer.”24Her generalship was at last coming to the fore, and she rallied her little ranks to face the coming onslaughts. She urged...