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Emmet
Fox was born in Ireland on July 30, 1886, was educated in England,
pursued his spiritual career mostly in the United States, and died
in France on August 13, 1951.
His father, who died before Fox was ten, was a physician and
member of
Parliament. Fox attended Stamford Hill Jesuit college near
London, and
became an electrical engineer. However, he early discovered
that he had healing power, and from the time of his late teens
studied New Thought. He came to know the prominent New
Thought writer Thomas Troward.
Fox attended the London meeting at which the International New
Thought Alliance was organized in 1914. He gave his first
New Thought talk in Mortimer Hall in London in 1928. Soon he
went to the United States, and in 1931 was selected to become the
successor to the James Murray as the minister of New York's Church
of the Healing Christ. Fox became immensely popular, and
spoke to audiences in some of the largest halls in the city. He
was ordained in the Divine Science branch of New Thought.
While Emmet Fox lived he addressed some of the largest audiences
ever
gathered to hear one man's thoughts on the religious meaning of
life.
His books and pamphlets have been distributed to over three
million
people and it can be conservatively estimated that they have come
into
the hands of ten million.
Fox's secretary was the mother of one of the men who worked with
Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson, and partly as a
result of
this connection early AA groups often went to hear Fox. His
writing,
especially "The Sermon on the Mount," became popular in
AA.
The influence of Emmet Fox in the spread of New Thought ideas and
emphases lies not simply in the large number of his readers, but
in the
fact that he is so widely read my ministers of all
denominations. A
check in large denominational bookstores in various cities from
time to
time has revealed that Emmet Fox's books are in constant demand;
and
these are the stores in which ministers chiefly buy their
books. They do
not, of course, read it as New Thought, but they buy it and read
it.
There is nothing sectarian, certainly, in the titles "The
Sermon on the
Mount" and "The Ten Commandments," nor is there
anything about them
outwardly to indicate that they are New Thought, and nearly half a
century after his death, the writings of Emmet Fox remain
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God
is bigger than any problem.
God in you is greater than any difficulty you have to
meet.
God cares for you more than it is possible
for any human being to realize.
God can help you in
proportion to the degree in which you worship Him.
You
worship God by really putting your trust in Him instead
of in outer conditions, or in fear, or in depression, or
in seeming dangers, and so forth.
You worship God
by recognizing His presence everywhere,
in all people and
conditions that you meet; and by praying regularly.
You pray well when you pray with joy.
Emmet
Fox
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