Word: mother
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gambit of the Christian Science Parent Church was to charge that Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy used anesthetics. It was a familiar move and the Christian Science Mother (Boston) Church quietly answered that Mrs. Eddy did not "at any time after she became a Christian Scientist either use a drug or allow one to be used for her except as she employed in a few instances an anesthetic for the purpose of temporary relief from extreme pain." (TIME...
...Parent Church followed the gambit by charging that the Mother Church was responsible for many stupid tragic deaths, cited that of one Walter J. Kline. who died under the care of a Christian Science nurse.* The Mother Church answered that the Kline nurse was not a duly accredited Christian Science nurse said: "There is nothing in the teaching of Christian Science which should keep a patient from having whatever physical care he needs and the best...
There the chess-like battle which began again this winter between the Mother Church and the Parent Church, insurgent offspring, rested until last week. Then the Parent Church moved again. It was not a checkmate. But it was a startling, troubling move...
Last week the Mother Church's answering move was to say that the parallels "merely indicated her [Mrs. Eddy's] familiarity with the writings of great men . . . Mrs. Eddy has been accused many times. . . . Hers [Mrs. Annie C. Bill's] is a small church while we have 2,300 branches...
...original title of this book was "The Mother Goose Murder Case." It was changed because the publishers probably feared that the public would think it a book for children−a gentle story with a fairytale murder...