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we learned that our success or failure in healing depended on the purity of our lives, as well as on the instruction she gave us.16 Mrs. Glove...
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she stated in a revision of The Science of Man, “A student of Moral Science, and this is the Science of man, must be a pure and undefiled Christian, in order to make the most rapid progress in heal...
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Also at the beginning of 1872, another former pupil, Wallace Wright, used a Lynn newspaper to attack Mrs. Glover’s teaching and practice, calling it mesmerism. In her response, she made her first p...
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of Life”11—a textbook that enables a student, entirely through prayer, to overcome life’s problems, whether they be moral, mental, or physical. But the author made a demand on the student: “. ...
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organic enlargement of the heart and dropsy of the chest. I was only waiting, and almost longing, to die; but you have healed me; and yet how wonderful to think of it, w...
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the time she left the house, less than half an hour after she had arrived, both of these cases had been healed, too.17Many years later Mrs. Eddy told one of her students about this experience, whic...
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to write that book, and had whispered that name to my waiting hope and prayer. It was to me the “still, small voice” that came to Elijah after the earthquake and the fir...
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“I knew that if he died he would awake to find he had not that disease, and I wanted to wake him to it before he died.”9Waking thought to the truth about the allness and goodness of God, and of man...
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She makes reference to this in her autobiography, Retrospection and Introspection, where she writes, “Our last vestry meeting was made memorable by eloquent addresses from persons who feelingly tes...
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after the manner of Christian Science, must be strictly moral, and an earnest and devoted follower of Christ.2 Mrs. Eddy had been conducting S...