Mr. Adam Dickey was one of Christian Science's most influential pioneers. He promised Mrs. Eddy he "would not fail her" and eventually helped lead the movement through the Great Litigation and its growth years. Also, Dickey's book Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy is reproduced in full as an exact copy from one of its rare originals as the last part of this book.
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Baxter is a class-taught fifty-year member of the Mother Church and banch churches. She is the 2000 recipient of the Eli Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award in history from the Indiana Historical Society.
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New Light on Mary Baker Eddy,
By Phare Pleigh (New England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mr. Dickey: Secretary to Mary Baker Eddy (Paperback)
Christian Scientists, as well as students of American religious history,
will welcome this engaging new biography of Adam Dickey, Mary Baker Eddy's right-hand secretary. The fact that it is addended to by his hard-to-find Memoirs about her makes the book a complete package. For the first time, author Nancy Niblack Baxter has had access to the Dickey papers, both from the Dickey family and from the Christian Science Church archival collection. They put this singular man into context and shed fresh light on the founder of Christian Science. "Mr. Dickey" is a window into the last years of her life and the first decade of the church following her passing. We first see Adam Dickey as member of a large Canadian family that migrated to Kansas City to establish a lucrative clay pipe business at a time in America's gilded age when roads were being built and sanitary sewers were becoming a necessity. Although he worked successfully in the business for a number of years, Dickey was more attracted to things of the spirit. Introduced to Christian Science before the turn of the 20th century, he took to it almost immediately. He had class instruction twice from Christian Science pioneer, Edward Kimball, and was recruited to serve in the household of the religion's founder a few years later. While there, Dickey witnessed Eddy's triumphs and trials, and stood by her with courage, unquestioning loyalty, and ardent prayer. Along with her factotum, Calvin Frye, he became a first lieutenant-so much so that Eddy demanded he write an account of what happened during that period, a memoir later suppressed by the church. As one of her final acts in 1910, Eddy appointed Dickey a director of her church. He served for over ten years when the Christian Science movement was challenged both by her passing and by a major legal battle between the trustees of its publishing house and the church board, a battle now referred to as the "Great Litigation." We are finally at a point in scholarship on Christian Science history when we can step back to view it with increased accuracy, and even inspiration. The work of Eddy biographers, Robert Peel and Gillian Gill, has set the standard for this effort. Other scholarly books will be appearing, starting in the fall of 2005. "Mr. Dickey" will bring added insight to them all.
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