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Editorials
The attempt at suppression of "personality," seems unwittingly to have carried some contributors to mistaken conclusions and a wholly undesirable extreme, in the matter of total suppression of genuine addresses. Excellent communications in both prose and verse that we otherwise might be glad to use, have, for lack of this one essential, immediately on receipt to be consigned to the waste-basket.
Why do you recommend the Rotherham translation of the Scripture, since Science and Health is based on the common version. Please answer through Journal.
It is difficult to realize the extent to which Science and Health has revolutionized human thought. Its new conceptions of God and man have flooded the world with light.
" The atmosphere of thought" is a common expression. It is an involuntary acknowledgment of Mind, in which thought of error—a material atmosphere—is foremost.
A " Children's Quarterly ," of the Christian Science Bible Lessons , International Series, is a pressing need of the hour. In many places all that holds parents to the old church relation is the Sabbath school.
There are "literal" translations of the Old Testament, but none that can take the place of the common version. They lack its graphic, spiritual power, and only serve, as reference, to help out in obscure passages.
" Let us hear the Conclusion of the Whole Matter. "— "Money" in Science.
More about "Hiding the Name of Christ. " In the letter of a correspondent the following lines are found: "I have now opened my parlors to good and bad.
The period of inception and completion of nearly all the improved translations of the Scriptures—the Revised and others —was simultaneous with the birth period of Christian Science. Infinite Wisdom brings out the purposes of Good by widely separated agencies whose connections are hidden from mortals.
The morning of May 27, in the beautiful Lyceum Hall, Madison Avenue, at corner of 59th Street, New York, the fifth annual meeting of the Association was convened. From eight hundred to one thousand faces of Scientists, gathered from all parts of the United States and Canada, expressing gladness and expectancy, greeted the President's, call to order.