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Periodical: Daily Word

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Daily Word.
Devoted to the Daily Practice of Christian Truths.
Other titles: Unity Daily Word (until July 1939)
1924 Monthly
Kansas City, then Unity Village, MO.
Language: Also in Braille from September 1935).
Editor: F.B. Whitney.
Publisher: Unity School of Christianity.
1/1, July 1924-current(?)
36 pp.

Another publication of Charles and Myrtle Fillmore's Unity School of Christianity. It provided an inspirational thought for each day of the month, with an exposition of its meaning. On Unity, see the note under Modern Thought.

Other Sources:Los Angeles Public Library; Howard University; Florida A & M; Xavier University of Louisiana; State University; Bowling Green State University
Issues:Daily Word V1 N1 July 1924
Claude-Generated Themes:   Daily Word is the well-known Unity devotional — a dated 'Word for Today' affirmation followed by a brief metaphysical meditation — and it is New Thought through and through: prosperity and abundance, 'demonstration,' 'the silence,' the indwelling Christ and the 'I AM,' with Emerson pressed into service ('Hitch your I AM to the star of spiritual understanding'). Its cited scripture is Charles Fillmore's Christian Healing, and its recurring image of the 'body temple' frames a gently affirmative healing practice rather than a doctrine of disease. The apparent phrenology signal is only the word 'faculty' used philosophically. In short, a Unity daily-devotional in the mainstream of American New Thought.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:New Thought