CHAPTER XVIII
THE MATERIAL PROSPERITY OF CHURCH AND COLLEGE—MRS. EDDY GOES TO LIVE IN COMMONWEALTH AVENUE—DISCONTENT OF THE STUDENTS—A RIVAL SCHOOL OF MENTAL HEALING—THE SCHISM OF 1888
Mary B. G. Eddy has worked out before us as on a blackboard every point in the temptations and demonstrations—or so-called miracles—of Jesus, showing us how to meet and overcome the one and how to perform the other. Christian Science Journal, April, 1889.
The first five years of Mrs. Eddy's life in Boston had been years of almost uninterrupted progress. Her college had, by 1887, grown to be a source of very considerable income. Her classes now numbered from thirty to fifty students each, and a class was instructed and graduated within three weeks' time. Although some students were received at a discount and paid only two hundred dollars for their instruction, the usual tuition fee was still three hundred dollars—a husband and wife being regarded as one student and paying but one fee. The course, which was formerly the only one taught at Mrs. Eddy's college, was now called the "primary course," and she added what she termed a "normal course" (being a review of the primary), a course in "metaphysical obstetrics," and a course in "theology," in all of which she was the sole instructor. If the student took all the courses offered, his
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