Write it in a book

On pages 184-185 of We Knew Mary Baker Eddy (Vol. 2, Expanded Edition) Clara Shannon records how a doctor, having witnessed the healing by Mrs. Eddy of a woman suffering from consumption, asked how she did the healing. She replied that she could not tell, "it was God". He said, “Why don’t you write it in a book, publish it, and give it to the world?” Mrs. Eddy had confirmation of the idea in turning to Jeremiah 30:2: “Thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel, saying, Write thee all t he words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.” This showed her God’s direction.

The workers* in Mrs. Eddy's household were always made aware that it was their duty to know that it was not Mrs. Eddy who did the healing but God** - Truth and Love, and not to worship her personality. (This was something that later workers would need to make clear to the world. That’s us today!) On page 209, Clara tells us that in her own work she would say, “With God’s help I will do so and so,” and knew that the good that she would do, she did, and the evil that she would not do, she could not be made to do.

On page 194 Shannon recalls: “When referring to God, [Mrs. Eddy] nearly always called God Love and would say, “Love will show me.””

Joyce Voysey

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*Shannon points out that the job of the workers was to "watch and pray" - see p. 197.

**page 192 ",..it is God who heals and not the student..."