with contributions from Edward Shillito, Ozora S. Davis, Raphael Demos, J. St. Loe Strachey, Raymond Pearl, Bruce Barton, Stephen B. Stanton, L. P. Jacks, Henry J. Cadbury, W. R. Inge
["A Torquemada in Miniature"—The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, U.
If
any one will cast a glance round his acquaintances and friends he will soon appreciate the fact that they may be divided into two main classes—those who give and those who receive.
What
a wondrous thought is this, "Thou God seest me," as uttered by Hagar, and when considered from the right standpoint what comfort and joy it brings! Before the light of Christian Science dawned on the world, this text did not invariably bring either joy or comfort.
In
the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth chapters of Jeremiah there is told in a few verses a story furnishing much food for thought, a story of an obscure Ethiopian eunuch, called Ebed-melech.