It is heart-warming to read about Mary Glover's Eddy's humour.
Peel quotes her 1864 letter to Dr. Quimby describing a journey she took from Portland to Warren, Maine:
"...got into a villainous old vehicle and felt a sensation of being in a hen-coop on the top of a churn-dash for about 6 hours! when the symptoms began to subside, and so did the old cart" (Peel, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery, p. 251).
She gave two lectures in Warren. The first "was thinly attended" , the "second ... she changed to meet what seemed to her 'a spiritual need of this people'" (ibid).
Her irrepressible wit surfaces again when she remarked that she liked "much the hearts of Warren folks, i.e. better than their heads" (ibid).
Julie Swannell
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Mum and I laughed at Mrs Eddy's sense of humour. Brilliant.
Much love
DJ
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