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sight. That was the only reason I asked you to stop teaching—and never have told this before to a mortal.71 Mrs. Eddy had indeed for some time...
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wife Jennie. Returning to the Middle West, Sawyer quickly called on the Shermans in Chicago to “strike a blow for Science there” and “place the Truth before them, and the facts in relation to E. J....
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came to be healed. I understood the cause of this and worked assiduously to overcome the error in realizing God’s government and that He is the source of supply and in a...
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of healing.7 Only a few days later a young Baptist minister, O. P. Gifford, took public issue with his fellow pastors who “would rather see their friends die than subject them to this system,”8 and...
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and one textbook. Yet if it bore little relationship to the luxuriant scholarship of Harvard College across the Charles River, it perhaps came closer to the familiar definition of the ideal college...
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substantial and actual.”44 The word “God”—“God”—“God” repeated itself over and over to her, yet she had lost her familiar sense of God and had not yet found the God she was looking for. When Mrs. E...
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down at our door, to speak a word of peace; and in my glad moments I exclaimed: “It brings a message of Love.” To my surprise a voice—nothing like a human voice—answered...
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between Christian Science and Buddhism, the Upanishads, Moslem philosophy, Spinoza, and the Zend-Avesta—a list suggesting her tendency toward an indiscriminate eclecticism.74 And in other ways she...
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Emma Hopkins, who was not a member of the class but was living at the college at that time, now became the object of Mrs. Plunkett’s full attention. By the end of the class term they were close fri...
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statements made—I do not care who by, and I know this, that with my critical, cynical gaze I found her true to her own original marvellous inspiration.77...