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.
(2) A short essay on America by our Editor.
(3) Doris Grekel’s book titled Christ's Second
Coming.
(4) The Introduction to Paul Smillie’s book titled Mary Baker
Eddy, The Prophetic and Historical Perspective.
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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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Complete introduction:
(Note: for a hardback copy please
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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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