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Abigail Thompson as a Christian Science Practitioner

October 4, 2010

From the time she completed Mary Baker Eddy’s 1898 Normal Class, Abigail Thompson had focused her life on helping and healing others in Christian Science. The result would be a thriving Minneapolis, Minnesota practice that included remarkable cases of healing that overruled a doctor’s diagnosis of incurability.

William P. Finlay and Charles Edward Russell each came to see Miss Thompson at different times with cases of heart disease, and a Mr. Muir, after suffering a severe fall, sought healing for lameness.

Miss Thompson’s prayerful work overruled each doctor’s verdict of incurability and brought healing and freedom to her three patients.

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Left: Abigail Dyer Thompson, circa 1900. Photograph, Longyear Museum Collection.

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