1. For a summary of the Russo-Japanese War, see Encyclopedia Britannica, “Russo-Japanese War,” Top Questions drop-down menu https://www.britannica.com/event/Russo-Japanese-War, accessed 3/7/2022.
  2. Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (Boston: The Christian Science Board of Directors), 271.
  3. See Eddy to The First Church of Christ, Scientist, 13 June 1905, L00432. This letter was later republished as “The Prayer for Peace” in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany (Boston: The Christian Science Board of Directors), 279.
  4. Eddy, “‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord,’” Christian Science Sentinel, 1 July 1905, 708; later reprinted in Miscellany, 280.
  5. See “Mrs. Eddy’s Requests,” Sentinel, 22 July 1905, 756; reprinted in part as “An Explanation,” in Miscellany, 280–281.
  6. Robert Peel, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Authority (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977), 256.
  7. Morris Weber to Mary Baker Eddy, 8 September 1905, IC722a.89.018.
  8. Eddy, “Practice Golden Rule,” Boston Daily Globe, 30 August 1905, 4; republished in Miscellany, 281–282.