Author Description

Leaves From Heaven is a wonderful book that Dr Emmet Fox asked Harriet Shelton to write for him. She had been to countless services held by Dr Emmet Fox. He chose her to receive his messages and write his book for him. It is a heartfelt book on how to live while we are here on earth. I trust you will enjoy it as much as I do every time I read it. Emmet Fox was a New Thought spiritual leader of the early 20th century, famous for his large Divine Science church services held in New York City during the Depression. Fox was born in Ireland July 30, 1886. 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 came to the United States, and in 1931 was selected to become the successor to James Murray as the minister of New York's Divine Science Church of the Healing Christ. Fox became immensely popular, and spoke to large church audiences during the Depression, holding weekly services for up to 5,500 people at the New York Hippodrome until 1938 and subsequently at Carnegie Hall. He was ordained in the Divine Science branch of New Thought. He was ordained in the Divine Science branch of New Thought. While on a visit abroad, he died at the American Hospital of Paris on August 13, 1951..(“Emmet Fox” Wikipedia).