[Christian Science by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookChristian Science CHAPTER VIII 23/28
The time and labor thus bestowed is relatively as great as that of--the committee who revised the Bible....
Thus we have additional evidence of the herculean efforts our beloved Leader has made and is constantly making for the promulgation of Truth and the furtherance of her divinely bestowed mission," etc. It is a steady job.
I could help inspire if desired; I am not doing much now, and would work for half-price, and should not object to the country. PRICE OF THE PASTOR-UNIVERSAL The price of the Pastor-Universal, Science and Health, called in Science literature the Comforter--and by that other sacred Name--is three dollars in cloth, as heretofore, six when it is finely bound, and shaped to imitate the Testament, and is broken into verses.
Margin of profit above cost of manufacture, from five hundred to seven hundred per cent., as already noted In the profane subscription-trade, it costs the publisher heavily to canvass a three-dollar book; he must pay the general agent sixty per cent.
commission--that is to say, one dollar and eighty-cents.
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