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Back in January, 1885, Emma Hopkins had written in the Journal: An impression obtains in the mind of outsiders that Christian Scientists take no interest in the live ques...
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A. J. Swarts than with the history-making Haymarket Riot, and Grover Cleveland’s mild but commendable campaign for tariff reduction was of decidedly less interest than the annual picnic of the Bost...
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Paul to acculturate Christian Science. There were also defectors who aspired to the role.But Mrs. Eddy was destined to be her own Paul. Through the theological controversies of 1885 it became clear...
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embarked on a major new revision. In April of that year she had a letter from one Edward E. Allen, who had applied to her for class instruction the preceding August and had offered to pay by render...
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criticisms were more substantive, and Mrs. Eddy considered them carefully before accepting or rejecting them.At first she had approached him only in regard to indexing the new version of Science an...
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look out from them upon the universe,”14 related her to the scientific culture of the next century far more significantly than could the genteel refinements of Boston’s literati in the 1880’s. Pasc...
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which most authors would have shrunk, to ensure the moral rightness of her book. . . . Day after day flew by, and weeks lengthened into months; from every...
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sciences, or was there demonstrably solid ground to stand on in a more sharply perceived Christianity? Among the restless seekers was the Reverend William I. Gill of Lawrence, Massachusetts.One of...
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“the thing was evil in the eyes of the Lord,” & “the eyes of the Lord are on the evil kingdom. . . .” I think you & Mr. Gill wd practically agree....
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geometry be to a poor sinner struggling with temptation or to a man with the smallpox? Was it through astronomy that Jesus pointed the way to heaven, the reign of harmony?31Gill had an example of w...