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Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy is,along with the Bible,one of the two central texts of the Christian Science religion. Eddy described it as her "most important work". She began writing it in February 1872,and the first edition was published in 1875. However,she would continue working on it and making changes for the rest of her life.
Mary Baker Eddy was an American religious leader and author who founded The Church of Christ,Scientist,in New England in 1879. She also founded The Christian Science Monitor in 1908,and three religious magazines:the Christian Science Sentinel,The Christian Science Journal,and The Herald of Christian Science. She wrote numerous books and articles,the notable of which were Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and Manual of The Mother Church. Other works were edited posthumously into the Prose Works Other than Science and Health.
Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices which are associated with members of the Church of Christ,Scientist. Adherents are commonly known as Christian Scientists or students of Christian Science,and the church is sometimes informally known as the Christian Science church. It was founded in 1879 in New England by Mary Baker Eddy,who wrote the 1875 book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,which outlined the theology of Christian Science. The book became Christian Science's central text,along with the Bible,and by 2001 had sold over nine million copies.
Bliss Knapp,the son of Ira O. and Flavia S. Knapp,students of Mary Baker Eddy,was an early Christian Science lecturer,practitioner,teacher and the author of The Destiny of the Mother Church.
Livingston Mims was an American politician who served as the 37th mayor of Atlanta,Georgia during the early 20th century.
Septimus James Hanna,an American Civil War veteran and a judge in the Old West. He was a student of Mary Baker Eddy,who founded the Christian Science church. Giving up his legal career,he became a Christian Science practitioner,lecturer and teacher. Hanna occupied more leading positions within the church organization than any individual,serving as pastor,then First Reader of The Mother Church,as editor and associate editor of the periodicals,member of the Bible Lesson Committee,he served two terms as president of The Mother Church,he was teacher of the Normal (teachers) Class of 1907,later vice president and then president of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College.
William Roedel Rathvon,CSB,,sometimes incorrectly referred to as William V. Rathvon or William V. Rathbone,is the only known eyewitness to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address,of the over 10,000 witnesses,to have left an audio recording describing that experience. He made the recording in 1938,a year before his death. A graduate of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster,Pennsylvania,and a successful businessman,he became a Christian Science practitioner,served as a public lecturer,Church treasurer and director of The First Church of Christ,Scientist in Boston,Massachusetts. He was treasurer from 1911 until he was elected to the Church's Board of Directors,on which he served from 1918 until his death in 1939. From 1908 to 1910 he was correspondence secretary for Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy. He also authored "The Devil's Auction" often republished without attribution as "The Devil's Garage Sale".
Eschatology is a New Thought movement founded by American writer and former practitioner William W. Walter. Walter was formally a member of the Catholic Church and then The First Church of Christ,Scientist until 1912 when he rejected organized religion in order to found his own metaphysical system. Although it is generally classified as a new religious movement,Walter did not see it as a religious movement,and his followers reject the association with religion. He originally named his organization "The Walter Method of Christian Science";and the term Eschatology as a trademark for Walter's teaching was not used until the 1920s.
Augusta Emma Stetson was an American religious leader. Known for her impressive oratory skills and magnetic personality,she attracted a large following in New York City. However,her increasingly radical theories,conflicts with other church members including a well-known rivalry with Laura Lathrop,and attempts to supplant Mary Baker Eddy as the leader of The First Church of Christ,Scientist,led to her eventually being excommunicated from the church on charges of insubordination and of false teaching. Afterwards she began preaching and publishing various works on her theories which she named the "Church Triumphant," and started a controversial radio station to advance her cause.
A Reader in a Christian Science church is a member of the congregation who has been elected to serve in one of two positions responsible for church services. Each week's sermon in Christian Science churches is outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly,prepared months in advance,and is the same in all Christian Science churches,worldwide. As a lay church,the congregation elects readers from the congregation and they serve as readers for a set period of time. The sermons consist of passages from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy,and are studied as lessons during the week and read aloud to the congregation on the Sunday following.
Buskirk is a surname of Dutch origin. Notable people with the surname include:
The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science (1909) is a highly critical account of the life of Mary Baker Eddy,the founder of Christian Science,and the early history of the Christian Science church in 19th-century New England. It was published as a book in November 1909 in New York by Doubleday,Page &Company. The original byline was that of a journalist,Georgine Milmine,but a 1993 printing of the book declared that novelist Willa Cather was the principal author;however,this assessment has been questioned by more recent scholarship which again identifies Milmine as the primary author,although Cather and others did significant editing. Cather herself usually wrote that she did nothing more than standard copy-editing,but sometimes that she was the primary author.
Georgine Milmine Welles Adams best known as Georgine Milmine,was a Canadian-American journalist most known for writing about Mary Baker Eddy,the founder of Christian Science. Milmine,along with Willa Cather and others,worked on 14 investigative articles about Eddy that were published by McClure's in 1907–1908. One of the only major investigative works on Eddy to be published in her lifetime,besides Sibyl Wilbur's Human Life articles,the articles were instigated by Milmine:S. S. McClure purchased her freelance research before assigning a group of reporters to verify,expand and write it up.
John Valentine Dittemore was director of The First Church of Christ,Scientist,the Christian Science church,in Boston from 1909 until 1919. Before that he was head of the church's Committee on Publication in New York,and a trustee for ten years of the estate of Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910),the founder of the church. Dittemore is best known as the co-author,with Ernest Sutherland Bates,of Mary Baker Eddy:The Truth and the Tradition (1932).
Samuel Putnam Bancroft,also known as Samuel P. Bancroft,was an American Christian Scientist and an early student of Mary Baker Eddy.
Adam Herbert Dickey,was an author,member of the Board of Directors of The First Church of Christ,Scientist,and a secretary to Mary Baker Eddy.
The "Next Friends" suit of 1907 was a lawsuit instigated by the New York World regarding Mary Baker Eddy,a religious leader from New England.
James Cook Denny was an American lawyer,judge,and politician who served as the ninth Indiana Attorney General from November 3,1872 to November 6,1874.
Thomas Wheeler Woollen was an American lawyer,judge,and politician who served as the eleventh Indiana Attorney General from November 6,1878,to November 6,1880.
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