J. R. (Joel Rufus) Moseley (1870-1954) was born in Elkin, North Carolina, and died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He graduated from Peabody College, in Nashville, Tennessee, and completed several summer courses at Harvard University. Moseley moved to Macon, Georgia, and taught philosophy and history at Mercer University from 1894 to 1900. He left that position to become a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science after completing two courses of study with Alice Jennings, a Christian Science teacher in Macon. He began practicing Christian Science in 1900 and was listed as a practitioner and teacher in the directory of The Christian Science Journal from 1902 until 1910. Moseley became a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 1, 1900, and was also a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Macon, serving as its Second Reader in the early 1900s. He was listed as a member of the General Association of Teachers in 1903. Upon Eddy's noticing and commending Moseley's effectiveness as a writer and lecturer on Christian Science, he was offered a salaried position writing for The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel and had over seventy articles published in those periodicals between 1901 and 1910. Moseley authored two books, Manifest Victory, published in 1941, and The Simplicities, published in 1946, and wrote regular columns on religious and philosophical topics for the Macon newspapers for over 30 years. He also owned and operated a 13-acre pecan orchard in Peach County, Georgia. He passed away in Oklahoma City while visiting a friend there.

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