In The Interior which was published October 26, there is an editorial comment on my lecture, which includes a conclusion on your part that I would like to have revised, and which I trust you will modify after reading this letter.
with contributions from ELLA BERRY RIDEING, ROBERT E. CAREY
[The following excellent report of last year's work of the Reading Room Association in New York, which was sent to our Leader, will prove interesting reading.
with contributions from Theodore Irving Reese, C. A. S. Dwight, J. R. Miller
The first fact with which we are confronted is an increasing discredit upon the value of all theological definition, either as a condition of entrance into the Church or as a guarantee for developing character.
The following extracts from the annual reports of the Publication Committees for the States of New York and Pennsylvania for the year 1905, will be of interest as showing the great amount of work required of these Committees.
The Empress Dowager [of China] has joined the reform movement with characteristic thoroughness, and has issued an imperial decree directing the million or so of officeholders who desire promotion, and all aspirants to office, to give up the ancient studies and devote themselves to the English language, mathematics, science in general, and things of actual value in the modern struggle for existence.
It may be objected that this is an unseasonable time to comment upon Christmas-giving, but that the season is not fully passed is amply attested by the little "reminders" that continually drift in from the first to the tenth of January advising us to "please remit.
