William S. Sadler (1875–1969) was an American surgeon, psychiatrist and author who helped publish The Urantia Book, a document that resulted from his relationship with a man whom he believed to be channeling extraterrestrials and celestial beings. Mentored by John Harvey Kellogg, he became a doctor and practiced medicine in Chicago. Sadler and his wife were speakers on the Chautauqua adult education circuit in 1907. He became a highly paid, popular orator and wrote over 40 books on medical and spiritual topics, advocating a holistic approach to health. Sometime between 1906 and 1911, Sadler attempted to treat a patient who spoke to him in unusual voices while sleeping. Sadler spent years observing the sleeping man and eventually decided the man had no mental illness and that his words were genuine. The man's communications were eventually published in The Urantia Book, and the Urantia Foundation was created to assist Sadler in spreading the book's message. Although it never became the basis of an organized religion, the book attracted followers who devoted themselves to its study, and the Urantia movement continued after Sadler's death.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1814:
War of 1812: Although the Maryland Militia lost the Battle of North Point, they were able to delay the British advance against Baltimore, buying time for the defense of the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_North_Point
1910:
Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire, was first performed in Munich. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._8_(Mahler)
1933:
Hungarian-American physicist Leó Szilárd conceived of the idea of the nuclear chain reaction while waiting for a traffic light in Bloomsbury, London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3_Szil%C3%A1rd
1942:
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the Battle of Edson's Ridge in an effort to retake Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Edson%27s_Ridge
1974:
Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia was deposed by the Derg, a military junta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haile_Selassie_I
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
vocable: 1. A word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning. 2. A syllable or sound without specific meaning, used together with or in place of actual words in a song. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vocable
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
There is something inside us which we don't like to face up to, from which we try to protect ourselves, but which nevertheless remains, since we don't leave Earth in a state of primal innocence. We arrive here as we are in reality, and when the page is turned and that reality is revealed to us — that part of our reality which we would prefer to pass over in silence — then we don't like it any more. --Stanisław Lem https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem
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