Accession: 215.36.018
Editorial Title: William I. Gill to Mary Baker Eddy, July 6, 1886
Author: William I. Gill 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: July 6, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by William I. Gill on lined paper from Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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LawrenceAs Written:Laurence, MassachusettsAs Written:Mass. 7–6— 1886As Written:86
Mrs. Eddy:
Dear & Honored Teacher,

I think it will please you to read a little of my thought and feeling, as I am prompted just now to utter it, and you need make no reply.

I am sure you are conscious of victory against the evil conspiracy. It must be so.

I have read Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy through several times since I left your class. I knew little of it then. I now feel it is the most valuable book in the world to me next to the Bible. It is a starry book like the Bible, and like much of that its style never wearies. A friend loaned me one of the books of Mr. Evans. I have just got through its perusal. I have had enough of him. In some respects he is good but very prosy, and very pantheistic. He does not inspire me with any religious feeling, notwithstanding his talk of Paul and Christ and God. His God is only a subtle matter or magnetic force universally diffused, as it seems to me. After laying down his book I quickly sought to freshen my taste in the true ChristianAs Written:Chrn. Science and Health:Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy In "the art of healing," in the study of Spirita Medica, in distinction from Materia Medica, I shall never want any other book than Science and Health. It will be my permanent textbookAs Written:text book.

Don't As Written: Dont trouble yourself to reply.

Gratefully Yours
Wm. I Gill
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LaurenceCorrected:Lawrence, Mass.Expanded:Massachusetts 7–6— 86Expanded:1886
Mrs. Eddy:
Dear & Honored Teacher,

I think it will please you to read a little of my thought and feeling, as I am prompted just now to utter it, and you need make no reply.

I am sure you are conscious of victory against the evil conspiracy. It must be so.

I have reand sScience and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy through several times since I left your class. I knew little of it then. I now feel it is the most valuable book in the world to me next to the Bible. It is a starry book like the Bible, and like much of that its style never wearies. A friend loaned me one of the books of Mr. Evans. I have just got through its perusal. I have had enough of him. In some respects he is good but very prosy, and very pantheistic. He does not inspire me with any religious feeling, notwithstanding his talk of Paul and Christ and God. His God is only a subtle matter or magnetic force universally diffused, as it seems to me. After laying down his book I quickly sought to freshen my taste in the true Chrn.Expanded:Christian Science and Health:Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy In "the art of healing," in the study of Spirita Medica, in distinction from Materia Medica, I shall never want any other book than Science and Health. It will be my permanent text bookCorrected:textbook.

Dont Corrected: Don't trouble yourself to reply.

Gratefully Yours
Wm. I Gill
 
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