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October 2018 Lesson
By the editor of the Mary Baker Eddy Science Institute
 

May this Thanksgiving season bring hope, peace, and prosperity to the universe and to all mankind. Let us pray together for the love that only an All Loving God bestows.

(1)  We start with the first Thanksgiving as depicted in Helen Wright’s America, Cradle for the Second Coming of the Christ (1987, 1st edition), pp. 12-14, 16.

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(2)  A short essay on America by our Editor.

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(3)  Doris Grekel’s book titled Christ's Second Coming.

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(4)  The Introduction to Paul Smillie’s book titled Mary Baker Eddy, The Prophetic and Historical Perspective.
   
  Excerpt from Introduction "This book shall focus on Mrs. Eddy's place in history and in Bible prophecy. Her works were the fulfilling of Scriptural prophecy and of historical developments. This work records her great humanity and shows in minute detail how it brought her into coincidence with her wonderful revelation. This book will reveal the steady spiritual growth through each successive development in her life, in her discovery, and in the preparation necessary for the founding of the Christian Science Movement, and will show the prophetic fulfillment of Scripture throughout her human experience.

"Mary Baker Eddy said, "It has been written that 'nobody can be both founder and discoverer of the same thing.' If this declaration were either a truism or a rule, my experience would contradict it and prove an exception." (Mis. 381:31) The word "discover" implies the application and demonstration of the spiritual idea of womanhood, and the word "found" implies the application and demonstration of manhood. The discovering and founding qualities are seldom demonstrated in one individual; an explorer rarely settles the new land, an educator is rarely his own best student, an organizer his own financier, a general who not only commands but is also found battling in the trenches, an author his own most avid reader and who studies his own writings more closely than does anyone else, a dedicated Leader and follower.

"Countless numbers of philosophers, thinkers, and educated men of all ages have attempted to understand the truth, but Mrs. Eddy alone has given us the truth, and in an understandable, usable form. All other theories, systems, ologies, isms, ideas and thinking pale in comparison to her discovery. She entered and mastered new mental and practical fields of endeavor hitherto barely approached, or even hinted at." (p. xiii)
 
 
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(5)  We end with Julia Ward Howe’s account of her “Vision,” found on pages 163-164 in America, Cradle for the Second Coming of the Christ (1999, 2nd edition) by Helen Wright.
 
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