Teach Us to Pray

This ebook is complete with linked Table of Content making navigation quicker and easier. Teach Us To Pray clearly shows that God is available to all who want to establish a contact with Him. Prayer is not about begging God but claiming all that rightfully belongs to us in His Truth and transforming our life and is an exciting adventure. Charles Sherlock Fillmore (August 22 1854 – July 5 1948) born in St. Cloud Minnesota founded Unity a church within the New Thought movement with his wife Myrtle Page Fillmore in 1889. He became known as an American mystic for his contributions to metaphysical interpretations of Biblical scripture. After the births of their first two sons Lowell Page and Waldo Rickert Fillmore the family moved to Kansas City Missouri. Two years later in 1886 Charles and Myrtle attended New Thought classes held by Dr. E. B. Weeks. Myrtle subsequently recovered from chronic tuberculosis and attributed her recovery to her use of prayer and other methods learned in Weekss classes. Subsequently Charles began to heal from his childhood accident a development which he too attributed to following this philosophy. Charles Fillmore became a devoted student of philosophy and religion.[5] In 1889 Charles left his business to focus entirely on a prayer group that would later be called Silent Unity. It was named this because of a legal conflict with Mary Baker Eddy over the use of the title Christian Science. That same year he began publication of a new periodical Modern Thought notable among other things as the first publication to accept for publication the writings of the then 27-year-old New Thought pioneer William Walker Atkinson. In 1891 Fillmores Unity magazine was first published. Dr. H. Emilie Cady published Lessons in Truth in the new magazine. This material later was compiled and published in a book by the same name which served as a seminal work of the Unity Church. Although Charles had no intention of making Unity