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Young in years, yet without hope of healing, I was facing life from the standpoint of inevitable invalidism when, in 1884, a friend living in Chicago brought to my Nebraska home the story of a new...
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sometimes in the week, and writing, have calls all the time and so do neglect what I [would] love to do, answer you at once. I am more than glad when I hear anything fav...
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It was to me an indisputable fact that no one else could know the real meaning of the book so well as did the writer of the book. I did not think of Mrs. Eddy as the Discoverer and Founder of Chris...
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with suspicion. When refused in one house, we would try another. We spent days in this way, hoping to find a place in Boston to do our work, but no one would receive us.Then we went to Charlestown...
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after these many years, the greatest privilege and joy of my life. In Hebrews 11:8 we read that “Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance...
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world before me needing the truth. If I fail to get work to do, it will be my own fault, and if I do not succeed in my first attempt, I will keep on until I do.” I might be tested and proven, but I...
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even then, hated and said within themselves, “This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours” (Mark 12:7).There is no question but that the mentality of the class, indi...
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to the same. This cruel letter was read at a meeting of the Christian Scientist Association in the presence of Mrs. Eddy. She made no reply, and when the meeting, which was held in her house, was c...
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was ever added. There were others who refused to consider the command as final and, almost at once, covertly began again to make notes. With eagle eyes, she detected the overt act and again repeat...
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three with her, seeing how it was, caught up their pencils and paper and took down what she said. When she was through speaking, she put down her hand and said, “Why, I haven’t any body,” and as sh...