The reminiscences of Mary Baker Eddy's students in the book We Knew Mary Baker Eddy are delighting and inspiring and stopping me in my tracks. There are many valuable lessons shared; insights recounted.
Scotland-born Annie Knott is an example of someone coming to Christian Science through the healing of a friend, followed by "many [other] cases of healing" (We Knew Mary Baker Eddy book 1 expanded edition p. 158), including her one and a half-year-old son who had swallowed carbolic acid. The doctors "said there was no hope" (ibid, p. 159), but he was completely healed through the application of Christian Science.
After taking "class instruction [in CS] from one of Mrs. Eddy's students" (ibid), Mrs. Knott soon had "patients coming to [her] daily for help" (ibid).
In early 1887, Knott received a request from Mrs. Eddy to come to Boston. This seemed impossible to her, especially as she had only returned from taking Normal Class in Boston just a few weeks before. However, a follow-up request conveyed the urgency of the demand for obedience and, despite its seeming "sacrifice of time and money" (p. 167), the "address at the meeting of [Eddy's] students in Tremont Temple was wonderful" (p. 168). Knott notes that at this time several of Eddy's students were actively trying to destroy Christian Science.
Mrs. Knott mentions three necessary qualities for progress: perception, reception, and conception - see page 173-4.
As mentioned in an earlier blog, she offers two joyful examples of barrenness reversed (pp. 176-7) and she shares her part in the successful resolution of proposed medical legislation to restrict the practice of Christian Science in Michigan - see pp. 185 ff. She was able to provide convincing proof of the efficacy of CS healing in a case of contagion.
Julie Swannell
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