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Georgine Milmine

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Description:"A lively account ... offers a strangely interesting human document. Mrs. Eddy is more than a personality, she is a type. Given the free field of a democracy she illustrates the possibilities of a shrewd combination of religion, mental medicine, and money." -The American Historical Review Mary Baker Eddy (1821 – 1910) was the founder of Christian Science, a new religious movement in the United States in the latter half of the 19th century. Eddy wrote the movement's textbook Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (first published 1875) and founded the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879. In 1909, Georgine Milmine (1874–1950) published "The Life of Mary Baker Eddy and the History of Christian Science." The book first published as a series of articles in McClure's in 1907 was generally well-received: "Unparalleled in the annals of religious history." -Current Opinion "Never was a series of articles in any magazine more carefully prepared ... one of the most important, certainly the most interesting contribution to McClure's in 1907." -The Railway Conductor "Whatever may be one's attitude toward the claims of this faith the clear statement of facts in the life of its founder is quite as interesting as any novel." -The American Review of Reviews "The result is an historical book of high value and of fascinating interest; the credit for the latter we assign in great measure to the inherent possibilities of the subject, without denying the author a share." -The Nation Milmine worked on the biography steadily for more than two years, gathering data, and five of the members of the McClure staff helped to confirm and fill out her results. Milmine divulges many facts that the friends of Mrs. Eddy would doubtless have wished to consign to oblivion; but her throbbing human narrative is intensely interesting and in the long run will surely add to Mrs. Eddy's glory, not detract from it. Mrs. Eddy was forty years old before her public life began. She was regarded as a chronic invalid suffering from spinal trouble, and the first absorbing interest of her life grew out of a visit she made to Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby in Portland, Maine, in the hope that he might be able to cure her. Quimby not only cured her, but awakened in her the germs of an idealistic philosophy that was destined to dominate her whole life and become the foundation of her church. As Miss Milmine describes him, “his personality inspired love and confidence. He radiated sympathy and earnestness. Patients who saw him for a moment even now affectionately recall his kind-heartedness, his benevolence, his keen perception.” His method was simplicity itself: “The medical profession constantly harped on the idea of sickness; Quimby constantly harped on the idea of health. The doctor told the patient that disease was inevitable, man's natural inheritance; Quimby told him that disease was merely an ‘error,' that it was created, 'not by God, but by man,’ and that health was the true and scientific state. ‘The idea that a beneficent God had anything to do with disease,' said Quimby, 'is superstition.' 'Disease,' reads another of his manuscripts, ‘is false reasoning. True scientific wisdom is health and happiness. False reasoning is sickness and death.’” No one, after reading this book, could doubt that Mrs. Eddy is a woman of genius. Here was a woman, a farmer’s daughter in humble circumstances and without unusual physical charms. For years she was practically confined to her bed with spinal complaint.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Life of Mary Baker Eddy and the History of Christian Science (1908). To get started finding The Life of Mary Baker Eddy and the History of Christian Science (1908), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "A lively account ... offers a strangely interesting human document. Mrs. Eddy is more than a personality, she is a type. Given the free field of a democracy she illustrates the possibilities of a shrewd combination of religion, mental medicine, and money." -The American Historical Review Mary Baker Eddy (1821 – 1910) was the founder of Christian Science, a new religious movement in the United States in the latter half of the 19th century. Eddy wrote the movement's textbook Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (first published 1875) and founded the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879. In 1909, Georgine Milmine (1874–1950) published "The Life of Mary Baker Eddy and the History of Christian Science." The book first published as a series of articles in McClure's in 1907 was generally well-received: "Unparalleled in the annals of religious history." -Current Opinion "Never was a series of articles in any magazine more carefully prepared ... one of the most important, certainly the most interesting contribution to McClure's in 1907." -The Railway Conductor "Whatever may be one's attitude toward the claims of this faith the clear statement of facts in the life of its founder is quite as interesting as any novel." -The American Review of Reviews "The result is an historical book of high value and of fascinating interest; the credit for the latter we assign in great measure to the inherent possibilities of the subject, without denying the author a share." -The Nation Milmine worked on the biography steadily for more than two years, gathering data, and five of the members of the McClure staff helped to confirm and fill out her results. Milmine divulges many facts that the friends of Mrs. Eddy would doubtless have wished to consign to oblivion; but her throbbing human narrative is intensely interesting and in the long run will surely add to Mrs. Eddy's glory, not detract from it. Mrs. Eddy was forty years old before her public life began. She was regarded as a chronic invalid suffering from spinal trouble, and the first absorbing interest of her life grew out of a visit she made to Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby in Portland, Maine, in the hope that he might be able to cure her. Quimby not only cured her, but awakened in her the germs of an idealistic philosophy that was destined to dominate her whole life and become the foundation of her church. As Miss Milmine describes him, “his personality inspired love and confidence. He radiated sympathy and earnestness. Patients who saw him for a moment even now affectionately recall his kind-heartedness, his benevolence, his keen perception.” His method was simplicity itself: “The medical profession constantly harped on the idea of sickness; Quimby constantly harped on the idea of health. The doctor told the patient that disease was inevitable, man's natural inheritance; Quimby told him that disease was merely an ‘error,' that it was created, 'not by God, but by man,’ and that health was the true and scientific state. ‘The idea that a beneficent God had anything to do with disease,' said Quimby, 'is superstition.' 'Disease,' reads another of his manuscripts, ‘is false reasoning. True scientific wisdom is health and happiness. False reasoning is sickness and death.’” No one, after reading this book, could doubt that Mrs. Eddy is a woman of genius. Here was a woman, a farmer’s daughter in humble circumstances and without unusual physical charms. For years she was practically confined to her bed with spinal complaint.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Life of Mary Baker Eddy and the History of Christian Science (1908). To get started finding The Life of Mary Baker Eddy and the History of Christian Science (1908), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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