New book for April: Mary Baker Eddy A Life Size Portrait by Lyman P. Powell

It's Easter Saturday and I am reminded that it has been quite some time since our book club took up a biography of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, so we have chosen a classic from the series available through Christian Science Reading Rooms: Lyman P. Powell's Mary Baker Eddy: A Life Size Portrait.

I found the information about Rev. Powell on Wikipedia quite interesting - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman_Pierson_Powell - especially the list of publications from his pen -

Publications[edit]

• The History of Education in Delaware (1893)
• Family Prayers (1905)
• Christian Science: The Faith and its Founder (1907)
• The Art of Natural Sleep (1908)
• The Emmanuel Movement in a New England Town (1909)
• Heavenly Heretics (1909)
• Mary Baker Eddy: The Second Seventy
• "The social unrest; capital labor, and the public in turmoil" (1919)
• Mary Baker Eddy: A Life Size Portrait (MacMillan, 1930)

On another note: I was impressed by a recent blog from Christian Science Teacher and Practitioner, Evan Melanbacher, who was writing about following through with our prayers or any endeavor. He wrote:

"If you sit down to read a book with a lukewarm or nonexistent desire to finish the book, you may get easily distracted with other priorities after flipping a few pages. “Oh, I should go for a walk,” or, “I’ll read it another time,” cause you to put the book aside. And the list of excuses may grow until the book remains forgotten.
Finishing a prayer is similar. If we have other priorities, our prayer may never complete, and the sought blessing remains elusive."

[Click here for the whole post: http://spiritview.net/2015/04/put-whole-heart-prayer.html]

Let's all keep focused this month as we delve into this lovely biography.  Readers will be interested to search for Lyman P. Powell on jsh-online. I was delighted this morning to find this lovely article http://journal.christianscience.com/blogs/what-sunday-school-meant-to-me/a-practical-and-accessible-science written by my sister, along with many other articles about our April book! I discovered that the book was first published in the 1930s and was later re-published in the 1990s as part of the Twentieth Century Biographers Series.

I can't wait to re-read this book now!

Julie Swannell