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Rh of a new book, written during the winter and put forth in May, 1888, changed her residence, and paid an eventful visit to Chicago.

“Unity of Good and Unreality of Evil” was advertised in these words in the Journal: “This little book is at last ready for the public. Next to ‘Science and Health’ it is the most important work she has written.” And it remains to-day the most important because of its absolute metaphysics. Her entire list of publications in that year included “Science and Health,” “Unity of Good,” “Christian Healing,” “People’s Idea of God,” “Christian Science, No and Yes,” “Mind Healing, an Historical Sketch,” and “Rudiments and Rules of Divine Science.”

It was becoming well-nigh impossible for Mrs. Eddy to have even an hour of her waking time to herself for the purpose of meditation, deliberation, or consideration of the larger plans that were now imperative. How “Unity of Good” was written is a mystery, for while she lived at the college whoever sought her had but to knock on her door. The large chamber over the parlors at the college was more of a library, a study, an office, than a quiet chamber for rest. Her door was thronged from early morning until late at night, and the uselessness of such distraction was that the most insistent besiegers were those with the least important business.

For such reasons, and because the field actually demanded her wisest deliberations, Mrs. Eddy took steps to remove from the college building. During the holiday season of 1887 she left Columbus avenue to reside in a house she had purchased at 385