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The power of the Word
From a talk given at the Lecture Activities Meeting held in John B. Hynes Civic Auditorium, Boston, Massachusetts, June, 1970
Originally published in the 1970 pamphlet “The power of the Word”
Many stories have been told of the effective communication which may come from a few well-chosen words, spoken at the right time and in the right way. In Proverbs we find, “A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.”Prov. 25:11 Anyone who works consistently with words—and what real student of Christian Science doesn’t?—comes to appreciate the power of a few words “fitly spoken.”
Some years ago when I was on the staff of the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, there were stories which still lingered in the corridors of that newspaper about its original owner and first editor, Henry Watterson. He knew how a few words could speak volumes. And one point on which no one was left in doubt was that Mr. Watterson owned the Courier-Journal, and he ran it!
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