Accession: 025A.10.032
Editorial Title: Clara E. Choate to Mary Baker Eddy, January 7, 1883
Author: Clara E. Choate 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: January 7, 1883
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Clara E. Choate from Boston, Massachusetts. This letter includes markings that look like the letter "X" by Mary Baker Eddy.
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My Beloved Teacher

I feel I have been ungrateful to you but in following out your best advice of love shall hope to prove that a true repentance and reformation is already begun. X Will you forgive me all or any sin I may have committed and bear with me patiently in the future, and I will try, oh so hard, to prove how much I love you and how sincerely I mean to be a “Christian Scientist.” X May I also ask if you think best, this, you, this same favor of my fellow associates to forgive me all transgressions X and if I have seemed proud that I will so humbly live in the future that they shall all know I have tried to “keep the faithII Tim 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: ” and “to love one anotherRom 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. .”

The hour is so dark but I remember so well what you once told me, “having done all to standEph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. and hold on to God” and this I will try and you will yet accept me as you own loved child and Christian student.

025A.10.032
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My Beloved Teacher

I feel I have been ungrateful to you but in following out your best advice of love shall hope to prove that a true repentance and reformation is already begun. X Will you forgive me all or any sin I may have committed and bear with me patiently in the future, and I will try, oh so hard, to prove how much I love you and how sincerely I mean to be a “Christian Scientist.” X May I also ask if you think best, this, you, this same favor of my fellow associates to forgive me all transgressions X and if I have seemed proud that I will so humbly live in the future that they shall all know I have tried to “keep the faithII Tim 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: ” and “to love one anotherRom 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. .”

The hour is so dark but I remember so well what you once told me, “having done all to standEph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. and hold on to God” and this I will try and you will yet accept me as you own loved child and Christian student.

 
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