Books: Winds of Change

On a snowy day one hundred years ago Adam Dickey walked up the driveway to the Chestnut Hill estate near Boston to begin his service as secretary to Mary Baker Eddy, the leader of the Christian Science movement. As he went about his daily life during the next three years at Chestnut Hill, Dickey kept journal notes of conversations and spiritual lessons with Mrs. Eddy as well as routine happenings and some difficulties in "the household." He also recorded Mrs. Eddy's handling of business affairs of the Christian Science movement which was by now a world-wide phenomenon.

These recently recovered journal notes, along with Dickey's personal letters home and photos of his life at Chestnut Hill, over 125 pages of invaluable historical documents reproduced exactly and transcribed, are included for the first time in a new edition of the popular book Mr. Dickey: Secretary to Mary Baker Eddy.

• Dickey's biography as Part I of the book
• A Chestnut Hill Album Part II [replacing Dickey's Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy]. It includes-
• Dickey's selective, detailed notes recording Mrs. Eddy's morning meditations with her household over a period of two years reproduced from the original transcriptions.
• Photos of the household "family" and the mansion through several seasons as taken by Dickey and his wife Lillian, also part of the household.
• Commentary on the journal entries by Baxter and Christian Science historian Keith McNeil, who owns the collection and has made it available to the public through this book.

To read this Chestnut Hill album is to step inside a world-famous home and personally experience the day-today life of the a strong, decisive and deeply spiritual leader of Christian Science movement and her "family" in her last, challenging years.

The spiritual lessons and new information in these entries are inspiring and invaluable.

264 pages
ISBN 978-0 9787167-7-6 $30.00

Living Love is an extraordinary book, full of not only joyous general principles about life itself but also many instructive details about how to live love and fulfill life. People from every tradition will welcome it, though Christian Scientists will particularly welcome this beautifully written, fresh, new view of eternal truths they are familiar with. Here is real twenty-first century advice on living with peace and meaning in the tradition Christian Scientists have come to revere. The author is quite definite and detailed about how spiritual healing occurs. Living Love is a guidebook to solving today's problems through the present utilization of Divine Love.

True Henderson worked as a Christian Science practitioner in her homeland, New Zealand. She also completed a masters degree in cultural anthropology, researching spiritual seeking in contemporary society. After immigrating to the United States True has continued her healing practice while expanding her outreach to include life guidance counseling and corporate consulting. She is an ordained interfaith minister. True is available for workshops and speaking appearances.

From Living Love:

As we come closer to a consistent understanding that spiritual perfection is our true identity we also learn that everything in our lives unfolds in its perfect timing. There is a sense of peace that comes with this knowing. And as our understanding of spiritual reality moves to each new level of awareness, the events of our day-to-day human living conform to this increasing spiritual consciousness of harmony. (Chapter 10)

This is healing, as I know it: to remember our true spiritual selfhood as the very essence of Love - to simply remember what is already true - our present perfection. (Chapter 1)

208 pages
Paperback ISBN 0-9726273-2-4 $17.00

Healing always has been and always will be the message of Christian Science. And what does that mean exactly? Physical healing, of course, but much more!

This revealing and honest book by a prize-winning historian and contented Christian Scientist, is written as a direct look from the inside. Its thesis: that the problems Christian Science is presently facing are in large part due to attitudes of Christian Scientists themselves in the heartland. Basing her arguments on the early history of the movement, the author contends that Mary Baker Eddy did not in the final analysis intend for her religious discovery to be a "healing method" but instead a revolutionary view of reality, and Christianity, based on the allness of God. The point: Christian Scientists need to quit frightening people with risky behavior with children and themselves and get back to the attractive spiritual bases of the movement.

...the mission of Christian Science now, as in the time of its earlier demonstration, is not primarily one of physical healing . Now, as then, signs and wonders are wrought in the metaphysical healing of physical disease, but these signs are only to demonstrate its divine origin—to attest the reality of the higher mission of the Christ power to take away the sins of the world.
p150 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

124 pages
Paperback ISBN 0-9726273-1-6 $15.00

Our Legacy of Love tells the story of a 50-year marriage of two Christian Scientists. It is no “sweetness and light” tale of only good times but instead covers in bright, well written story-telling form the ups and downs. She came from “high society,” he from a working class background. They married to parents’ objections and raised five children, facing job changes, money challenges, foster-child difficulties, illnesses and finally the passing of Peggy’s beloved spouse Ken.

Through it all the love of God strengthened this family, who passed in and out of Christian Science to finally firmly embrace it again.

This is a story of trying to live the life of Love in everyday experience and it will thoroughly absorb and uplift readers.

Paperback $22.95
ISBN: 978-1-4257-3709-2 310 pgs.