Reply To: The Feast of Freedom

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Reply To: The Feast of Freedom

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July 11, 2020 at 12:00 pm #11012

DaleW

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Thank you so much for this post! What a debt of gratitude is to be paid to those faithful warriors who have come before us, led on by their desire for freedom, their love for God, and their compassion for their fellowman. From this wonderful post can be seen the powerful impetus that God has put on the heart of man for the betterment of all mankind.

In the link (attached): Harriet Beecher Stowe: An Appreciation by Mary Church Terrell, on page 15, can be found this quote:

“After seeing what a miraculous power her book possessed, Mrs. Stowe repeatedly disclaimed the authorship of this child of her heart and brain. ‘I could not control the story, it wrote itself,’ she said, ‘I, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin? No indeed, the Lord himself wrote it, and I was but the humblest instrument in his hands. To him alone should be given all the praise.’”

This brought to mind what Mary Baker Eddy wrote:
“I should blush to write of ‘Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures’ as I have, were it of human origin, and were I, apart from God, its author.” (Miscellany, p. 115:4)

“The works I have written on Christian Science contain absolute Truth, and my necessity was to tell it; . . . I was a scribe under orders; and who can refrain from transcribing what God indites, and ought not that one to take the cup, drink all of it, and give thanks?”
(Miscellaneous Writings, p. 311:23)