William D. McCrackan

William D. McCrackan
Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria
Died	June 12, 1923 New York City, US
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William Dennison McCrackan (1864 – June 12, 1923) was an American journalist and author of books on history and travel. In 1900, he converted to Christian Science and became a Christian Science practitioner, teacher and lecturer.

Life

McCrackan was born in Munich, then part of the

McCrackan converted to Christian Science in 1900[8] and became active with the church organization, first serving as Committee on Publication for the state of New York for three years.^[1] In that function, he wrote two articles for the North American Review addressing articles they had recently published by Mark Twain, which had ridiculed Christian Science. He sent his articles to Twain, which Twain replied he had read "with admiration and with profit". McCrackan later called on Twain, and though they remained in disagreement regarding religion, they developed a cordial relationship.^[9][10] The last time McCrackan met with Twain, his wife was very ill and Twain, who wrote numerous articles critical of the religion, told McCrackan that he would gladly ask McCrackan to pray for her, except that his wife would rather die.^[11]

McCrackan, a

He died in New York on June 12, 1923.^[13]

Published work (partial list)

Articles

• "Our Foreign Policy"
  Arena magazine
  , (1893), pp 145-150
• "Andreas Hofer, The Hero of the Tirol" New England Magazine, (March 1896 - August 1896), pp 548–559
• "Emancipation" Christian Science Journal, (1919)

Books

• The Rise of the Swiss Republic (1892)
• Little idyls of the big world (1895)
• The Huntington letters (1897)
• The Fair Land Tyrol (1905)
• Christian Science: Its discovery and development A.D. 1866 (1915)
• The Spell of the Italian Lakes (1918)
• The New Palestine (1922)
• An American abroad and at home, recollections of W. D. McCrackan (1924)
• Mary Baker Eddy and Her Book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (1925)

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