[Christian Science by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookChristian Science CHAPTER VI 37/48
"The Bible and Science and Health, with other works by the same author," could have come from no literary vacuum but the one which produced the remark (in the Autobiography): "I remember reading, in my childhood, certain manuscripts containing Scriptural Sonnets, besides other verses and enigmas." We know what she means, in both instances, but a low-priced Clerk would not necessarily know, and on a salary like his he could quite excusably aver that the Pastor Emeritus had commanded him to come and make proclamation that she was author of the Bible, and that she was thinking of discharging some Scriptural sonnets and other enigmas upon the congregation.
It could lose him his place, but it would not be fair, if it happened before the edict about "Understanding Communications" was promulgated. "READERS" AGAIN The By-law book makes a showy pretence of orderliness and system, but it is only a pretence.
I will not go so far as to say it is a harum-scarum jumble, for it is not that, but I think it fair to say it is at least jumbulacious in places.
For instance, Articles III.
and IV.
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