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Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy - used - faded spine

Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy - used - faded spine

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Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy: Recollections and Experiences. Amplified Edition, by Irving C. Tomlinson, provides a unique view of the daily life in the household of a great religious leader. This book discloses the atmosphere of Mrs. Eddy's home, her attitude toward others, and her healing work. 

For this Amplified Edition previously unpublished selections from Tomlinson's original draft manuscript are incorporated at the end of chapters. Four collections of photographs, some never before published, are also included.

Woven into the story are delightful accounts of Mrs. Eddy's recollections of her girlhood and the years leading up to her discovery of Christian Science. Thus, the author covers much more than his modestly title book indicates - more than the twelve years from 1898 to 1910 when he was closely associated with Mrs. Eddy.

In 1898 the Christian Science church was well established and in her role of Leader, Mrs. Eddy was engaged in expanding its outreach. In Twelve Years With Mary Baker Eddy there emerges a firsthand record of the development of Christian Science activities, including the formation of the Board of Lectureship, the Committee on Publication, and The Christian Science Monitor.

About the Author
Irving C. Tomlinson was drawn into religious channels in his early years. After earning both a bachelors and masters degree from Akron University in Ohio, he took the divinity course at Tufts College, Medford, Massachusetts. Tomlinson learned of Christian Science while serving as a Universalist pastor. An incident with a parishioner prompted him to find out if any church was doing the healing which the "Master bade us perform." This led him to Christian Science.

 Rev. Tomlinson quickly took an active and prominent part in the movement, serving as Mrs. Eddy's secretary in her household from 1908 to 1910, and earlier in Concord, New Hampshire, as associate secretary for about three years. On Mrs. Eddy's invitation he attended her last class in 1898 and shortly afterward she called him to be First Reader of First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Concord.

Over the years he was twice President of The Mother Church, taught one Normal class of its Board of Education, and was one of the first lecturers on Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy also appointed him to the Bible Lesson Committee in 1898. He served this committee until January 1917.

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