Title:
The Flaming Sword
Accession#:
1991.10.03
Pubication Date:
1931/09/00
Object ID:
PA—0095
Collection:
Flaming Sword
Additional Notes & Full Text:
COMMUNITY CURRENT EVENTS - SEPTEMBER 1931
We are glad to see Sister Ella Graham, at home again and pleased that she could spend a few weeks in Miami visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Victor Phiilips and family, and with her sons, Robert and Lloyd. Sister Ella returned Aug. 11, refreshed and ready to take up her duties again. Sister Tacy Weaver spent two days in Fort Myers with friends. Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Lauber, of St. Petersburg, Florida, passed through Estero recently on their way to Miami. They were welcome callers at the Unity, both going and on their return trip. Henry Moreland and son, FIoyd, have been harvesting a fine crop of pineapples at their farm in Alva. As ever they remembered their Unity friends most generously with a quantity of the very excellent fruit. It is really an amazing sight to see the countless numbers of fruit on our Cattley guava trees; the Cattley guava is smaller in size than the common variety and grows in clusters like grapes. Brothers Jesse Putnam and Charles Faulkner went to Miami for a few days' outing, calling at Everglades for a few hours on the return trip. With refreshing showers and cooling breezes we are enjoying our summer. The season was pleasingly described in a short poem by Lynn Russell, which was printed recently in The American Eagle: FLORIDA SUMMER Sunshine and ram . . . blue sky and Cloud . . . Summer is here! Marsh pinks again, slender and proud,, Rise from the plain. Hark to the song cardinals sing, "Summer has come, We are not 'wrong, servant or king, Here we belong." . . . Pine trees and, palms, k^sed by the breeze, Smile at the sun, Whispering psalms . . . (Thinking to please With their salaams!) Islands of green dotting the glades, Florida calls; Every lo-ved, scene takes on ne'w shades— Summer is queen! Wade Stephens had a vacation trip to Tampa where he visited with his aunt, Mrs. Elkes, a sister of Sister Cora Stephens, and with his cousins. Brother Emerson Saunders has been assisting Brother Theodore Naesehus in arranging and classifying the many beautiful palms, crotons, caladiums, and other plants. It is .a pleasure to walk through that part of the park and view these plants.
Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Lewis, of Everglades, have called on us. a number of times the past month, and also inspected their cottage, which is being constructed in this vicinity. Brothers Charles Hunt and Wade Stephens have been attending to the filling station in the absence of Harry DuBois, who is enjoying a vacation with friends at Spring Creek. Sister Orline Thacher spent a week with her friend, Mrs. Lillian Rugg, who lives about two miles north of us. The fence from the store to the Art Hall is beingrebuilt. It will be set a few feet back, thus making the highway wider. It seems most fitting at this time to mention how well-kept our park grounds look; this is due to the energy and persistence of Brothers Charles Hunt and Laurence Bubbett. To keep ahead of the rapid growth of weeds and grass during the rainy season requires constant care. We read this lately and .congratulate the blind man for seeing more than scientists with unimpaired optics: "The universe is perpetual—it had no beginning and it will have no end," stated Prof. Edwin B. Frost, blind astronomer of Yerkes Observatory, at Williams Bay, Wisconsin. We were pleased and surprised on Aug. 23 to receive a call from our friends Mrs. Alex McKay of Lakeland, her sister, Miss Margaret Penn from Ohio, Mrs. Hilda Lamb of Lakeland, and her sister, Miss Daisy Collier of Tampa, and Miss Lydia Pierce of Fort Myers. They remained to lunch and for the evening. Miss Eleanor Phillips arrived on the bus from Miami, Aug. 23, to spend a few days with friends here. She is the granddaughter of Sister Ella Graham. A lily pond, in which the overflow from the fountain near the bake shop will be drained, is being constructed by Brother Theodore Naeselius. Another cow has been added to the Unity dairy. It is two months or more ago since the Poinciana trees burst into gorgeous red flame and subsided almost as quickly into the customary and inconspicuous green shade which is characteristic of them during the greater portion of the year. Not so, however, with the big tree near the store at Estero. Regularly each year at the usual season it starts to bloom, but does not waste its substance in one short burst of riotous color. It blooms rather on the installment plan,—a few gorgeous flower clusters here and there and changing from week to week to different portions of the tree. This Poinciana is still in bloom and usually remains in flower well into September. We are wondering if there .are Poinciana trees elsewhere that are similar in blooming habit.—From The American Eagle of Aug. 20, 1931.
We are glad to see Sister Ella Graham, at home again and pleased that she could spend a few weeks in Miami visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Victor Phiilips and family, and with her sons, Robert and Lloyd. Sister Ella returned Aug. 11, refreshed and ready to take up her duties again. Sister Tacy Weaver spent two days in Fort Myers with friends. Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Lauber, of St. Petersburg, Florida, passed through Estero recently on their way to Miami. They were welcome callers at the Unity, both going and on their return trip. Henry Moreland and son, FIoyd, have been harvesting a fine crop of pineapples at their farm in Alva. As ever they remembered their Unity friends most generously with a quantity of the very excellent fruit. It is really an amazing sight to see the countless numbers of fruit on our Cattley guava trees; the Cattley guava is smaller in size than the common variety and grows in clusters like grapes. Brothers Jesse Putnam and Charles Faulkner went to Miami for a few days' outing, calling at Everglades for a few hours on the return trip. With refreshing showers and cooling breezes we are enjoying our summer. The season was pleasingly described in a short poem by Lynn Russell, which was printed recently in The American Eagle: FLORIDA SUMMER Sunshine and ram . . . blue sky and Cloud . . . Summer is here! Marsh pinks again, slender and proud,, Rise from the plain. Hark to the song cardinals sing, "Summer has come, We are not 'wrong, servant or king, Here we belong." . . . Pine trees and, palms, k^sed by the breeze, Smile at the sun, Whispering psalms . . . (Thinking to please With their salaams!) Islands of green dotting the glades, Florida calls; Every lo-ved, scene takes on ne'w shades— Summer is queen! Wade Stephens had a vacation trip to Tampa where he visited with his aunt, Mrs. Elkes, a sister of Sister Cora Stephens, and with his cousins. Brother Emerson Saunders has been assisting Brother Theodore Naesehus in arranging and classifying the many beautiful palms, crotons, caladiums, and other plants. It is .a pleasure to walk through that part of the park and view these plants.
Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Lewis, of Everglades, have called on us. a number of times the past month, and also inspected their cottage, which is being constructed in this vicinity. Brothers Charles Hunt and Wade Stephens have been attending to the filling station in the absence of Harry DuBois, who is enjoying a vacation with friends at Spring Creek. Sister Orline Thacher spent a week with her friend, Mrs. Lillian Rugg, who lives about two miles north of us. The fence from the store to the Art Hall is beingrebuilt. It will be set a few feet back, thus making the highway wider. It seems most fitting at this time to mention how well-kept our park grounds look; this is due to the energy and persistence of Brothers Charles Hunt and Laurence Bubbett. To keep ahead of the rapid growth of weeds and grass during the rainy season requires constant care. We read this lately and .congratulate the blind man for seeing more than scientists with unimpaired optics: "The universe is perpetual—it had no beginning and it will have no end," stated Prof. Edwin B. Frost, blind astronomer of Yerkes Observatory, at Williams Bay, Wisconsin. We were pleased and surprised on Aug. 23 to receive a call from our friends Mrs. Alex McKay of Lakeland, her sister, Miss Margaret Penn from Ohio, Mrs. Hilda Lamb of Lakeland, and her sister, Miss Daisy Collier of Tampa, and Miss Lydia Pierce of Fort Myers. They remained to lunch and for the evening. Miss Eleanor Phillips arrived on the bus from Miami, Aug. 23, to spend a few days with friends here. She is the granddaughter of Sister Ella Graham. A lily pond, in which the overflow from the fountain near the bake shop will be drained, is being constructed by Brother Theodore Naeselius. Another cow has been added to the Unity dairy. It is two months or more ago since the Poinciana trees burst into gorgeous red flame and subsided almost as quickly into the customary and inconspicuous green shade which is characteristic of them during the greater portion of the year. Not so, however, with the big tree near the store at Estero. Regularly each year at the usual season it starts to bloom, but does not waste its substance in one short burst of riotous color. It blooms rather on the installment plan,—a few gorgeous flower clusters here and there and changing from week to week to different portions of the tree. This Poinciana is still in bloom and usually remains in flower well into September. We are wondering if there .are Poinciana trees elsewhere that are similar in blooming habit.—From The American Eagle of Aug. 20, 1931.
Summary:
CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1931
Interpretation of the Language of Causation — 1
Man's Attainment to Godhood — 4
"What's Next?" — 5
The Literal Word — 7
Has Science Rediscovered God ? — 8
A Matter of Great Importance — 9
Random Comments — 10
That Portrait of Mine at Seventy—nine—A Poem — 10
Open Court of Inquiry — 11
Community Current Events — 13
Publishers' Department — 14
Interpretation of the Language of Causation — 1
Man's Attainment to Godhood — 4
"What's Next?" — 5
The Literal Word — 7
Has Science Rediscovered God ? — 8
A Matter of Great Importance — 9
Random Comments — 10
That Portrait of Mine at Seventy—nine—A Poem — 10
Open Court of Inquiry — 11
Community Current Events — 13
Publishers' Department — 14
Notes:
See originals in Archives building. Most issues have been photocopied and are bound. These copies are located on the Public Shelf
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Flaming Sword Cover - Septembe
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