Emma curtis hopkins biography of william hill
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Snapshot of Christian Science history
Dressed in their Sunday best in the heat of July, members of the Christian forskare Association face the camera from the steps of a pavilion at the ocean-front park called Point of Pines, just south of Lynn, Massachusetts. A large part of the future of the Christian Science movement is seated here. There are those who would stand bygd Mary Baker Eddy, their teacher and Leader. And there are those who would fall away, attack her, or even seek to supplant her. They sit shoulder to shoulder in this snapshot taken in at a pivotal moment of history, when the Discoverer of Christian Science had just begun preparing her students to teach Christian Science.
Fourth of July: birth of the Christian forskare Association
In July , members of the Christian forskare Association, centered in Boston, received a jubilant invitation: “The Association will celebrate their Ninth Anniversary on Thursday next, July 16th, by an Excursion to the Point of Pines, to
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Meet Our Minister
Inspired, early on, by his grandmother Sadie on his father’s side, Rev. Michael Schoonover came to Unity Way Church in , already well-schooled in the teachings of Unity. With a BA in Communications from Dordt University, in Iowa, a career as a real estate broker, an extensive knowledge of giants in the New Thought Movement, such as Emma Curtis Hopkins, Annie Rix Militz, William Walker Atkinson and the Fillmores, and with a passion for counseling and working with people, Rev. Michael brings the perfect combination of intellectual and heart-centered ingredients to the Sunday platform.
In August of Rev. Michael successfully completed and graduated from the Emerson Theology Institute of California with a Master of Religious Studies degree and a Doctor of Divinity degree. But, as Rev. Michael often says “he is on a daily spiritual quest to soulfully better understand, live consciously from, and demonstrate these bold transformative Truth teachings of Practical Metaphy
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Emma Curtis Hopkins (), the author of "High Mysticism" and "Scientific Christian Mental Practice" was a student of Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science, who started her own school, and some argue that she was the founder of the New Thought movement.
Mrs. Hopkins' gift for teaching showed itself early. Before she was fifteen years old, she entered Woodstock Academy (Conneticut) as a student and because of her genius was given a place on the faculty as a teacher.
Later in life she returned to being a student, taking class instructions in Christian Science, following which she served editorially on the staff of the Christian Science Journal -- only to find her purpose asserting itself and drawing her into the role of independent leadership and of a great teacher.
Here's what Charles Fillmore, founder of Unity, had to say about her: "She is undoubtedly the most successful teacher in the world. In many instances those who enter her classes confirmed invalids come out at the end of th