The centennial of Mrs. Eddy's birth in 1921
The relatively unnoticed centennial of the passing of Mrs. Eddy on December 3, 2010, brought to mind the perhaps controversial manner in which the centennial of her birth was marked on July 16, 1921....
View ArticleChristmas and Christian Science
As these busy Christmas season days go by, I thought it might be of interest to see some items on Christmas in Christian Science history.One is this telegram that Mrs. Eddy sent out to Emma McLauthlin,...
View ArticleA bit more Christmas
The Christmas festivities have reduced the amount of time available to add to this blog, but in response to Craig’s reference to Mrs. Eddy’s specific article on Christmas in 1905, I thought this might...
View ArticleChristian Science in Germany
Christian Science has branch churches all over the world but the first country to see Science and Health translated into that country's non-English language was Germany. The history of Christian...
View ArticleAnother rare first edition
End of the year business duties have limited the amount of time I can devote to this blog, and that might continue for another four to six weeks, but I thought that this brief bibliographical entry...
View ArticleAudited Financial Statement of The Mother Church 1904-1905
This audited financial statement by Edwin D. Pride is likely one of only five copies prepared for the Christian Science Board of Directors in 1905. It covers the period June 1, 1904 – June 1, 1905 and...
View ArticleEdward J. Arens, One of the Founders of New Thought
Edward Arens was a pupil of Mrs. Eddy’s husband, Asa, and he eventually broke with the Eddys and went out on his own, starting by writing pamphlets that plagiarized Mrs. Eddy’s work to the point where...
View ArticleMrs. Eddy in Wilmington, North Carolina— Redux
Mrs. Eddy told interviewer Henry Robinson about 1894 that when she lived in the South she published anti-slavery articles that caused threatening locals to want to find who would write such a thing....
View ArticleDue out in 2012?
The paucity of recent posts has largely been due to my work on completing Part I of the proposed book below. My goal is to have the writing and research for Part I completed by the end of this year,...
View Article2012 has come and gone, so where is the book?
Enquiring minds may have that question, and the answer is the writing of the book should be done by the end of April. Once that is done, it will have to be proofread and all kinds of permissions...
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