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Bible Notes
"For his mercy endureth for ever" (Ps. 136:1)—The Hebrew term "chesed" has a much wider meaning than can be represented by the use of any one English word such as "mercy." In our Authorized Version it is sometimes rendered "goodness" (Hos. 6:4) or "lovingkindness" (Hos. 2:19), and includes the ideas of "kindliness, tenderness, loyalty and love." Consequently, Moffatt sometimes renders it as "love" (e.g., in Hos. 6:6), but in Psalms 136:1, and other passages, "His kindness never fails;" just as Smith has: "His kindness is everlasting." George Adam Smith renders the word "chesed" as "leal love" (cf. Book of the Twelve Prophets: Vol. I, p. 265).
"The counsel of the Lord ... the thoughts of his heart" (Ps. 33:11)—Another possible rendering of the word here translated "counsel" would be "design" or "purpose" (Brown, Driver, Briggs: Hebrew Lexicon, p. 420). Smith suggests: "The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart throughout the ages;" Moffatt: "The Eternal's purpose stands for ever, and what he plans will last from age to age;" and Kent; "Jehovah's counsel standeth forever, the plans of his mind from all generations."

June 12, 1937 issue
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"Joy cometh in the morning"
NELLIE B. MACE
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Angels
HAROLD C. LEWIS
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True Identity
MILDRED P. KINDY
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"Rejoice, because your names are written in heaven"
HARRY R. COPELAND
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Standing Porter
CECIL C. BONHAM
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The Simplicity of Giving
ANGELICA L. FAULKNER
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The Flower of Perpetual Peace
CAROLA BELLINI-LINDENAU
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Controlling Our Thoughts
HELEN M. ALBERT
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Your issue of February 5 contains a letter referring to...
Lieut.-Col. Robert E. Key, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
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A minister was quoted in the Star-News as saying that...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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Among the many persons who turn to Christian Science...
Miss Constance Muriel Frost, Committee on Publication for Queensland, Australia,
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A news item in the Times of October 29 reports that a...
Harold Molter, Committee on Publication for the State of Illinois
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In reply to your correspondent, your readers will observe...
Gordon William Flower, Committee on Publication for Gloucestershire, England,
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We must realize that we are all about our Father's...
B. Palmer Lewis
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The Secret Place
MABEL CONE BUSHNELL
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Truth's Invigorating Power
Duncan Sinclair
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"Your divine right"
George Shaw Cook
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The Lectures
with contributions from Florence Siever Middaugh, Floyd L. Wray, R. R. Guido Mann, Theodora A. Cooney, Lyle Lomax, Rose Kilian, Maurice W. Hastie, Ruth A. Reitz
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I should like to express the gratitude I feel for what...
Edith Van Patten
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Many times during the past ten years I have been...
Mildred B. Watson
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A growing conviction that there is indeed no rest in the...
Ralph W. Keller
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A testimony of the healings which I received during the...
Gertrude L. Hatch with contributions from Allston M. Hatch
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In gratitude to God and to Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer...
Sara M. Randall
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Silent Prayer
LAURA GERAHTY
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Benson Lane, Greta Gaskin Carroll, Edward Archibald Thompson, E. V. Moorman, Ernest J. Barson