Friends,
We are half way through the month of June. How are you going with our project to read about Irving Tomlinson's Twelve Years with the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy? I hope you are enjoying it as much as I am. And don't forget our questions as you read.
Some people may wonder why we might choose to read about this woman. Well, if I was learning the Beethoven Violin Concerto, I would certainly want to know a bit about the composer and his times in order to play the work with authenticity and understanding. God speaks to all of us and we express our God-given talents in individual ways. Each has his valued and valuable niche to fill and no one can take the place of another. Paul writes in 1 Cor 14:10 "There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification."
Mary Baker Eddy lived in an era very different from our own. It was interesting to catch the ABC TV program about Australian women campaigning for and gaining the right to vote earlier than any other women in the world, except New Zealanders! Talk about pioneers! When reading a book such as we have chosen, it is helpful to know what else was going on in the world at the same time so we can really get a feel for our subject.
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One of the women involved in the work of lifting women's lot in Australia (mentioned in the ABC show) was Vida Goldstein. Did you know Vida Goldstein became a Christian Science practitioner?
In the last decades of her life her focus turned more intently to her faith and spirituality as a solution to the world's problems. She became increasingly involved with the Christian Science movement whose Melbourne church she helped found. For the next two decades she would work as a reader, practitioner and healer of the church. Despite many suitors, Vida never married and she lived in her last years with her unmarried sister Aileen and her widowed sister Elsie. She died in South Yarra on 15 August 1949 at the age of 80.
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