I have found that Ivimy Gwalter’s Foreword of our
book also appeared in the 1979 edition of We Knew Mary Baker Eddy.
On first reading of our book, I was enormously impressed by
the new additions of Hermann Hering’s and John Salchow’s reminiscences, enjoyed
meeting the man who whipped Mrs. Eddy into his arms to get her away from the
news people when she arrived at her new Chestnut Hill home, and meeting the man
who was the second First Reader of
The Mother Church and who showed us the way to go in many aspects of that grand
opportunity of serving the church. Now I am wondering what new insights are
coming my way through this re-reading. (I am referring to and will be
reading the latest edition We Knew Mary Baker Eddy – Expanded Edition Volume
1, published in 2011.)
We had readings on “Happiness” last night at the Wednesday
Evening Meeting. There was a lot read about singing and joy and
rejoicing. I wondered: I don’t remember much singing going on in the New
Testament. This morning this is confirmed. Very few “singing”
references listed in the Bible Concordance. Though one I really love is I
Cor. 14:15: “…I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the
understanding also.”
However, the Concordance records many, many instances of
rejoicing. Doesn’t that make us glad?
more....May I just pop this in here?
MEANING OF BLESSED
The form in which Jesus spoke the Beatitudes was an
exclamation, a joyous affirmation of what is rather than what is to
come.
The Greek translation of the word blessed indicates
an exclamation of joy. The verb are, as in Blessed are does
not appear in the original manuscript. The Aramaic and Hebrew expression
formed often in the Old Testament is “O the blessedness of!”
Although some translations use the word happy, the
root of the word happiness is contingent on chance and changes of
life. Blessed indicates the “highest stage of happiness and
well-being.” Blessedness is found in an “inward fountain of joy in the soul itself”
and “consists in standing in a right relation to God.”
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