CHAPTER XIV
CONTRIBUTIONS TO NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES
[Boston Herald, May 5, 1900]
A Word in Defence
I EVEN hope that those who are kind enough to speak well of me may do so honestly and not too earnestly, and this seldom, until mankind learn more of my meaning and can speak justly of my living.
[Boston Globe, November 29, 1900]
Christian Science Thanks
On the threshold of the twentieth century, will you please send through the Globe to the people of New England, which is the birthplace of Thanksgiving Day, a sentiment on what the last Thanksgiving Day of the nineteenth century should signify to all mankind?
MRS. EDDY'S RESPONSE
New England's last Thanksgiving Day of this century signifies to the minds of men the Bible better understood and Truth and Love made more practical; the First Commandment of the Decalogue more imperative, and
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