Article April 29, 1950 Issue

WATCHFULNESS IN OUR CHOICE OF BOOKS

J. BUROUGHS STOKES

When I would know thee ... my thought looks
Upon thy well made choice of friends and books;
Then do I love thee, and behold thy ends
In making thy friends books, and thy books friends.

What wisdom, knowledge, and gentle guidance are contained in this magnificent epigram by Ben Jonson! The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, so esteemed it that she quotes it at the beginning of her work "Miscellaneous Writings."

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