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MARY BAKER EDDY’S DEFINITION OF CHURCH Footsteps of Progress Church. T...
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EVOLUTION OF THE TENETS OF THE MOTHER CHURCH Footsteps of Progress The...
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the writer were a Christian Scientist, a spiritualist, or a theosophist. I said to myself, ‘Something must be done and at once.’ I withdrew from all other work, and in solitude and almost ceaseless...
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Readers and still continue to grow and prosper?” he wondered. “These questions disturbed many, including myself, who having but recently left the ranks of the clergy was accustomed to a personal pr...
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Excitement swirled around No. 8 Broad Street, Mary’s house in Lynn. To the surprise of her friends, on New Year’s Day, 1877, Mary Baker Glover married Asa Gilbert Eddy, one of her students. She was...
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The next decade found the Christian Science movement expanding rapidly, a period of growth easily seen in the number of people who came to Pleasant View for two out of a handful of occasions when M...
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“We must hear Mrs. Eddy,” she told him, “because even though we do not agree on religion, she is a great woman, and we should be proud to have her living in our city.”Concord was proud of its most...
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Mary Baker Eddy around the time she taught her final class So important did she consider this book that she requested via the next month’s Journal that all teaching of Christian Science be su...
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“We were all very happy to be called, but distinctly human in our speculation as to the reason for the call,” noted Emma Easton (later Newman), one of those to receive a telegram.She and the others...
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On a chilly November day in 1879, George Glover stepped off the train in Boston. His journey from the Dakota Territory had been a long one, and he still had to make his way through a maze of unfami...