I gave my C. S. Journal to the Publishing Society on the grounds that it should be well conducted etc. Now I ask you to see that we have more that is understandable and interesting to the general public more that fulfils this purpose, "I make you fishers of menMatt 4:19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. more that is worthy the literary ability that should characterize our periodicals. No matter about the cost of it, but I insist that such writers as Judge Jones M. G. Kains Mr. Samuel Greenwood Mrs. Mims of AtlantaEditorial Note: Atlanta, Georgia, Edward A. Kimball Rev. Vosburgh etc. be employed and paid as contributors to our periodicals and constant contributions be had from them.
As it is, only Christian Scientists can find food for the head and heart in our papers. The Rev Lyman Abbott'sEditorial Note: Lyman Abbott (1835-1922) was a Congregationalist theologian, pastor, editor, lecturer, and author. He was ordained a minister of the Congregational Church in 1860 and was known for succeeding Henry Ward Beecher in 1888 as pastor of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York. Abbott worked variously in the publishing profession as an associate editor of Harper's Magazine, the founder of the Illustrated Christian Weekly, and was editor-in-chief of The Christian Union (renamed The Outlook). He was a leading exponent of the Social Gospel, a religious social reform movement prominent in the United States from about 1870 to 1920. last articleEditorial Note: The December 31, 1904, issue of The Literary Digest included the article "Lyman Abbott's New 'Heresies'". It included ideas shared by Abbott during a sermon at Harvard University. in the Literary Digest should be reviewed in our papersEditorial Note: The January 14, 1905, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel included an editorial, "A Cry in the Wilderness," that reviewed the sermon recently given by Lyman Abbott to students at Harvard University and discussed in the December 21, 1904, issue of The Literary Digest. The Sentinel article pointed out areas where Abbott's ideas were in accord with the teachings of Christian Science. and quotations from it printed with their authority that would startle the world to see that the great and best men are adopting Christian ScienceAs Written:C.S. Such articles tend to attract the higher class of thinkers and to dignify our causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science.
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