Christian D. LarsonLiving between 1874 and 1954, Christian Daa Larson emerged as a leader and educator within the American New Thought community. The pioneering figure, Horatio Dresser, hailed Larson as one of the originators of the New Thought movement. Larson's literture, even centuries later, remains in circulation. In fact, his works even influenced significant writers and experts in the field of New Thought, such as Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes. Larson's birthplace of Forrest City, Iowa, was where his Norwegian parents resided. Iowa State College and Meadville Theological School in Pennsylvania were attended by him, as well as his brother Fenwicke Holmes, who also took a correspondence course with Larson at the Unitarian theological school. Larson's The Ideal Made Real was thought of on the same level as Ralph Waldo Trine's In Tune with the Infinite, according to Fenwicke's account in Ernest Holmes: His Life and Times. His ideas greatly impacted Ernest, and Fenwicke goes into further detail about this. Read More Read Less