Communications

...Another interesting fact is that "Glastonia" was, in the British tongue, "Inis Gutrin," or "Insula Vitrea"--island of glass...

...A. CA1V'PEELL TURNER...

...Let us see first what our old friend William of Malmesbury has to say...

...The wealthy business man," as he says, "may become a Christian Scientist," but usually as a last resort and after having tried many other forms of healing either for himself or for a dear one and at last finds surcease from sickness and sorrow in this purely spiritual system of regeneration...

...Local tradition is very strong that those twain shall rise again and save England as once they did before...

...They spent Easter Eve with the Archbishop of Canterbury, and wonderful it must have been...

...Writ-ten at the very end of the twelfth century, his book tells us of the discovery...

...O the Editor :--Sir Bertram Windle, who wrote a de-lightful review on King Arthur's Country in The Com-monweal of Shptember i, must be the excuse for my title...

...G. S. J. CmLDE...

...His soul was with God and his body in the cemetery of Glastonbury...

...Giraldus himself saw the leaden cross upon it, with this inscription: "Hic Jacet Sep Ultus Inclitus Rex Arturius in Insula Avalo Nia...

...This one idea is reliance on God as all-inclusive and man as reflecting His attributes...

...THE COURSE OF CONVERSION New York, N. Y. T the Edltor:--I note that Mr...

...If, then, we have cleared up the intoler- able notion of Linlithgow, where is Avalon ? A contemporary of Geoffrey of Monmouth, one Caradoc of Llan_,:aman, tells us that the wicked king of Somerset (Mel was his name) had stolen Guinevere and lodged her in Glas- tonbury, that Arthur advanced upon the place to besiege it, and that the abbot managed to bring peace about without the dash of arms...

...EDGAR G. GYGER...

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...Indeed, only the other day, at Cadbury, a sus-piclons-looking archaeologist was asked by a peasant: "Have you come to take the King out...

...But I fancy that that day is not yet come, coal-strike or not...

...So we must leave regretfully the coming of Saint Joseph of Arimathea, Saint David, Saint Patrick, and the glorious devil-tweezing Saint Dunstan, and go down into the earth where lay the body of him, who, in life, had such devotion to Our Lady...

...Giraldus Cambrensis tells of its finding...

...As one of the many who have gladly succumbed to the greatness of Glastonbury, on theological and historical grounds, I plead her case again...

...He begins, speaking of Arthur: "This is the Arthur concerning whom the idle tales of the Britons rave wildly even today [thank you, William!] a man certainly worthy to be celebrated, not in the foolish dreams of deceitful fables [again, thank you, old friend !] but in truth- ful history . . and finally, at the siege of Mount Badon, relying on the figure of the Lord's Mother, which he had em- broidered on his armor, he attacked 9o0 of the enemy himself alone and put them to flight with incredible slaughter...

...G. K. Chesterton makes O a thrust at Christian Science in his article, The Course of Conversion, in your issue of November...

...Chesterton's reference to Christian Scientists as "people with one idea" is correct...

...Of course, the lady can go to Mexico by sea and there is no really valid reason for her wishing to come to the United States, but by refusing her a vis6, while admitting Soviet commercial agents, are we not furnishing the radicals at home and abroad with a very cheap stick to beat us with ? Suppose that instead of slapping the Soviet government in the face, which was what it wanted us to do, we had courte- ously granted its request and then seen that Madame Kollontal was kept under dose, though not obvious, surveillance while passing through the United States---would not this attitude have been more in keeping with the dignity of a great nation than is our government's abject fear of our being infected with even the most diluted solution of the Bolshevistic virus...

...King Arthur's queen lay beside him, as Adam of Dome- sham tells us also...

...Next, turning to Geoffrey of Monmouth, he tells us that the King was mortally wounded on the river Cambala, in Corn- wall, and "carried thence to the isle of Avalon for the heal- ing of his wounds...

...After all, if Madame Kollontai had been permitted to cross our country, this could scarcely have created a very dangerous precedent, as the only nation in our neighborhood with foreign diplomatic representatives, whose capital can be reached by land from the United States, is Mexico...

...Mary B. Eddy's teachings demand...

...Io4 T H E C O M M O N W E A L December I, I926 COMMUNICATIONS T KING ARTHUR AGAIN London, England...

...Sir Bertram is amiss when he says that Henry II had their bones translated, with great pomp, to a tomb before the high altar...

...Deep buried in a hollowed oak, between two stone pyramids, it lay there in decay...

...But it was Edward I and his queen who bore the royal bones, with their own hands, at Easter in I278, to their more fitting resting-place...

...But if we would identify our Arthur with Glastonbury, we must pass over his glorious heraldic life, so tinged with the beauty of the great, and rejoin him at his death- bed...

...T SLAPPING THE SOVIET Washington, D. C. O the Editor :--Granted that the Soviet government's re- quest that Madame Kollontai be permitted to pass through the United States on her way to Mexico was made for the purpose of creating an incident, as you intimated in your edi- torial columns of November I7, was it entirely wise of our State Department to refuse her a vls...

...And there we leave Arthur and Guinevere, taking their rest until they shall return...

...After the great fire of II84, his munificence rebuilt the abbey...

...It will be a far more terrible day when Arthur, with the image of Our Lady on his breast-plate, shall rise again...

...Quite the contrary to his "monotonously repeating his one idea" or chattering a formulated prayer--which is blind belief--the aroused student becomes conscious of how scientifically to think his way into the kingdom of heaven which Mrs...