Trivia Time Again

1.              To whom (and when) did Mrs. Eddy write this: “Oh, the marvel of my life! What would be thought of it if it was known in a millionth of its detail? But this cannot be now. It will take centuries for this.”

2.             What property did some Christian Scientists approach Mrs. Eddy about buying in 1895 only to have her eventually counsel them that it was not necessary?

3.             When did Mrs. Eddy speak at Steinway Hall?

4.             In the standard 1932 hymnal, which hymn is “out of order”?

5.             What alleged statement by Laura Lathrop “shocked” Mrs. Eddy?

6.           In 1895 what year did Mrs. Eddy look forward to, wondering how they in that future year would look back and see how Christian Science had progressed?

7.             What did Mrs. Eddy say she was deeply interested in when young but was later weaned from?

8.             Where in My. is Mrs. Eddy’s address given in Tremont Temple?

9.             Mrs. Eddy wrote a letter to Mrs. C. Pearse on March 5, 1898, in which she talked about how poor she was when she started her Christian Science career and how practitioners had a right to charge for their services to make a living. Where was that letter, in slightly revised form, later published?

10.         Which popular hymn is titled in an English translation, “A Strong Fortress”? (Below is a clue, based on a photograph I took in Coburg, Germany.) 

 

Comments

[Calvin A. Frye]

1. 1891 in a letter to Augusta Stetson
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3. February 15, 1889. "Science and Christianity" It was her only public talk in New York. More than a thousand are reported to have attended the last minute lecture.
4. Hymn #1
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8. Address at Annual Meeting, June 6, 1899, My 131:17
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10. Hymn #10, Based on Martin Luther's Hymn, "EIN' FESTE BURG"

[Keith]

Thanks Calvin. Great job. All the answers are right on. The letter to Stetson was dated April 28, 1891. It was reproduced in one or more of Stetson's books.

By the way, the answers to 5, 6, 7, 9 are all found in Prose Works.

[Craig Beardsley]

2. Professor Kent's.

5. That MBE was a second Christ.

[Keith]

Number 5 is correct, from Pulpit and Press, pp. 74-75. Number two is not Professor Kent's house, although about the same time, 1895, there was actually talk of buying property next door to the Kent house.

[Keith]

Here are the remaining answers:

2] Christian Scientists asked Mrs. Eddy about buying her Lynn house from the 1870s, but she decided against it.
6] The year is 1970. In 1895 in Pulpit and Press, p. vii, Mrs. Eddy looked forward 75 years.
7] Material music. See Mrs. Eddy's 1900 Message to The Mother Church, p. 11.
9] The Pearse letter was revised slightly as the article "The Laborer and His Hire," in My., 214-216. John Howell Books in San Francisco about 1980 or so purchased this letter from a London auction but I did not have the money to buy it.