The Pursuit of More Trivia

Here are some more questions:

1.    While Martin Luther was the only person to have a chapter header in Science and Health other than from those in the Bible, elsewhere in Science and Health two other non-Bible writers have similar quotes outside of the text of the book. Who are they?

2.    Where does Mrs. Eddy write about the “mendacity of error”?

3.    Where did Mrs. Eddy write she found herself a willing disciple?

4.    According to Science and Health, when did Mrs. Eddy date her scriptural writings that are today commonly referred to as her Genesis manuscript?

5.    Which book by R. K. Noyes is quoted by Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health?

6.    In which common book in the Christian Science Reading Room is found Mrs. Eddy’s published letter dated May 15, 1903? Note it is not in Prose Works or the biographies of her.

7.    Staying with Reading Room books, which other book offered there has a full-page photograph of Annie Knott, the first female member of the Board of Directors?

8.    In which edition of Science and Health were only fifty copies produced with special Oxford Bible paper? (See below of an inscription by Mrs. Eddy to Clara Shannon for this edition.)

9.    For what period of time did the morning service in The Mother Church have a different text than the evening service?

10.  Even though Mrs. Eddy was too busy to have visitors at the time, to which visitor did she make a special trip to see at his|her hotel in Concord (presumably the Eagle Hotel)?  (See below a photograph of inside the Eagle Hotel along with a photograph made from an early postcard of the outside of the hotel.)

 

   

Comments

[Calvin A. Frye]

1. One of them is William Shakespeare, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." From Hamlet. S&H iii:4
2. S&H 554:20 Marginal Heading
3. S&H ix:16
4. "1867 and 1868", S&H ix:28
5. "History of Medicine for the last 4000 years" loosely titled by Mrs. Eddy as "History of Four Thousand Years of Medicine" was by Rufus K. Noyes and published in 1880.
6. Concordance to S&H

[Craig Beardsley]

8. 84th ed., 1894, the "cornerstone" ed.

[Keith]

Excellent responses. On #1 the other one is Mrs. Eddy (that is kind of a trick question). #2 I thought might be tough since it is in the Marginal Heading. I am glad to see Calvin get #6 since that is the kind of obscure date and letter that can be missed.

We only have #s 7,9, and 10 to go. Here are some clues: #7 is certainly a lesser known book but it is a biography available from the Reading Room. #9 comes from a book in the Reading Room (even though some have objected to that fact); the time period was July 1898 - April 1900, but I need the source. #10 also comes from a standard history in the Reading Room.

[Calvin A. Frye]

7. Mary Baker Eddy: Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science by Louise A. Smith (pg. 108)
9. Bliss Knapp describes that scenario in Destiny of The Mother Church:
"In July, 1898, the Lessons for the morning service began to appear in practically the same form as they now are, and on the same subjects selected by Mrs. Eddy that are still in use. The afternoon or evening service continued to follow the International Series. In April, 1900, the International Series was discarded entirely, and the second service became a repetition of the morning service." (pg. 39)

[Keith]

Those are correct, so we are down to just one. We are almost there.

[Calvin A. Frye]

10. Frances Thurber Seal

[Keith]

We have a winner (which is easy for me to say since there is no prize).

Just for fun, here is a bonus question. What book on the history of Christian Science in Germany was published just last year? Also what other books (in German) give a history of the Moltkes, who helped translate Science and Health into German?