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FROM THE COLLECTIONS — july 2020
Read about Eddy’s lifelong love of this long form poem.
JULY - AUGUST 2020
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July 7, 14, 21, 28, and August 4, 11 (Tuesdays)
PODCAST — JULY 2020
Learn how women in a prominent Japanese family enlightened global citizenship.
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These are challenging days, and we want to join hands with you—to leaven despair with hope. Wipe out hate with love. Listen and act with courage, compassion, and faith. Our namesake, Mary Baker Eddy, wrote: “Our heavenly Father never destined mortals who seek for a better country to wander on the shores of time disappointed travellers, tossed to and fro by adverse circumstances, inevitably subject to sin, disease, and death” (Message to The Mother Church for 1902, p. 11). For over 150 years, Eddy’s ideas, grounded in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, have touched people and their communities with healing—sometimes under the most difficult circumstances. We look forward to opening our doors in Boston to you soon. In the meantime, we will continue to share content and ideas that we hope will inspire and uplift, and help you to help others. Let’s step forward together.
—Michael W. Hamilton
Featured research articles
Women of History: Martha Matilda Harper
Meet a Christian Scientist who brought innovation to the hair care industry.
From the Collections: Young’s “Night Thoughts”
Read about Eddy’s lifelong love of this long form poem.
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On sale: Advice to Healers Collection
Selected letters from the Library’s collection reveal Eddy’s counsel to students and offer healing ideas.
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