Chapter 49 of 58
Book 4: The Power of the Spoken Word - Foreword
第四巻：語られた言葉の力 — 序文
EN
Florence Scovel Shinn taught metaphysics in New York for many years. Her meetings were well attended and in that way she was the means of bringing the message to a considerable number of people.
JA
フローレンス・スコヴェル・シンはニューヨークで長年にわたり形而上学を教えました。彼女の集会には多くの人が出席し、それによって多くの人に祝福をもたらしました。
EN
Her books have had a wide circulation not only in America but abroad. They seem to have a knack of finding their way to remote and unexpected places in Europe and other parts of the world. Now and again we meet someone who came into Truth through finding a Florence Shinn book in the most improbable location.
JA
彼女の著書はアメリカのみならず海外でも広く流通しています。辺鄙で思いがけない場所にまで届く不思議な力を持っているようです。
EN
One secret of her success was that she was always herself . . . colloquial, informal, friendly, and humorous. She never sought to be literary, conventional, or impressive. For this reason she appealed to thousands who would not have taken the spiritual message through the more conservative and dignified forms, or have been willing to read . . . at least in the beginning . . . the standard metaphysical books.
JA
彼女の成功の秘訣の一つは、常に自分自身でいたことです……口語的で、形式張らず、親しみやすく、ユーモアに満ちていました。文学的であろうとはせず――
EN
She herself was very spiritual, although this was usually hidden behind a matter of fact and carefree treatment of her subject. The technical or academic approach was not for her. She taught by familiar, practical, and everyday examples.
JA
彼女自身は非常に霊的な人でしたが、それは通常、テーマに対する率直で気楽な扱いの陰に隠されていました。技術的な――
EN
She had been by profession an artist and book illustrator before becoming a Truth teacher, and belonged to an old Philadelphia family.
JA
彼女は真理の教師になる前は、職業として芸術家および本の挿絵画家でした。フィラデルフィアの古い家柄の出身です。
EN
She left a collection of notes and memoranda which have been made into the present book. May it have a wide circulation.
JA
彼女はメモと覚書のコレクションを残し、それらがこの本にまとめられました。広く読まれることを願って。
EN
—Emmet Fox
JA
――エメット・フォックス