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LIFE OF MARY BAKER G. EDDY

Her following was now, for the most part, made up of indifferent material—discontented women, and young men who had not succeeded in finding their place in the world, or who had drifted away from other professions. The Christian Science Church was a struggling organisation with considerably less than fifty members; its history had been one of dissension, and its good standing was all to make—and Mrs. Eddy was then sixty-one years old.