Items of Interest April 23, 1932 Issue

Items of Interest

Dr. Lyman P. Powell, Rector of St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, The Bronx, New York City, is to lecture in Symphony Hall, Boston, on the evening of Tuesday, May 3, on the subject of "Mary Baker Eddy, Educator." Mr. Crosby Gaige, the well-known producer, is sponsoring the lecture. Dr. Powell was educated at Johns Hopkins University. His activities have not been confined to the ministry, but have included newspaper and educational work. For five years he was president of Hobart College, at Geneva, New York.

Dr. Powell is the author of the well-known biography of Mrs. Eddy entitled "Mary Baker Eddy: A Life Size Portrait," which was issued in 1930 in this country, England, and Australia, has since been translated into Swedish, and now is in process of translation into the German language.

The Christian Science Monitor in a review of Dr. Powell's biography of Mrs. Eddy called the book a "fascinating portrait," and described the author as "a writer who has refused, on the one hand, to fall victim to the present biographical vogue of cynicism, or, on the other hand, to be deterred by the wariness, amounting at times to straight-out prejudice, with which church leaders are sometimes inclined to view such a study." Dr. Powell's book was almost unanimously commended by newspaper reviewers as characterized by dignity and integrity of purpose, and as based on a sympathetic and impartial study of original sources not theretofore available. As one newspaper said, "This volume, then, offers a highly intelligent and wholly comprehensible portrait of Mrs. Eddy, with the essentially immanent background of her work," Since Dr. Powell's book has had so wide a circulation, it is reasonable to expect that his lectures will be equally interesting and instructive, not only to Christian Scientists, but to others, including communicants of other churches.

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