Accession: 321.44.012
Editorial Title: Roger Sherman to Mary Baker Eddy, November 9, 1884
Author: Roger Sherman 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: November 9, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Roger Sherman on lined paper from Chicago, Illinois.
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Your favorEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. duly received and would say in reply, that the article to which I think you refer, was published in the TribuneEditorial Note: Chicago Tribune of Oct. 28, of which I will mail you a copy.

I have not seen Dr. Sawyer’s College advertisement but understand what it purports to be, and while I join with you, and all who have the welfare of the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. at heart, in regret that the name of ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science should become the vehicleAs Written:veichle of charlatanry and the avenue through which avarice may communicate its ends, regardless of all that is right, yet, at the same time, I cannot but feel that pure ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science is still secured to the age, not only by its own inherent Truth, but by its bulwarks of safety at the present hour, “Science and Health,”“Science and Health,”Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. which you have given us, and the institutions which you have founded.

We are much interested in our infant association, within which a kindly and harmonious spirit seems to prevail; and it is our hope to so represent the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science., that the pride we feel in having you as our head and guide, as to be worthy the same feeling in return.

In a business way I am doing fairly well and am conscious of growth in the right direction which is manifest in my healing, but which enables me to realize more than anythingAs Written:any thing else how much there is in ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science that now lies beyond my grasp. I do not cease to be grateful to you for what you have done for me.

With kindest regards, I am,
Very Respectfully.
Your Student,
Roger Sherman, C.S.

P.S. You will notice above the change in my address.

R.S.

321.44.012
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

Your favorEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. duly received and would say in reply, that the article to which I think you refer, was published in the TribuneEditorial Note: Chicago Tribune of Oct. 28, of which I will mail you a copy.

I have not seen Dr. Sawyer’s College advertisement but understand what it purports to be, and while I join with you, and all who have the welfare of the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. at heart, in regret that the name of ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science should become the veichleCorrected:vehicle of charlatanry and the avenue through which avarice may communicate its ends, regardless of all that is right, yet, at the same time, I cannot but feel that pure ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science is still secured to the age, not only by its own inherent Truth, but by its bulwarks of safety at the present hour, “Science and Health,”“Science and Health,”Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. which you have given us, and the institutions which you have founded.

We are much interested in our infant association, within which a kindly and harmonious spirit seems to prevail; and it is our hope to so represent the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science., that the pride we feel in having you as our head and guide, as to be worthy the same feeling in return.

In a business way I am doing fairly well and am conscious of growth in the right direction which is manifest in my healing, but which enables me to realize more than any thingCorrected:anything else how much there is in ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science that now lies beyond my grasp. I do not cease to be grateful to you for what you have done for me.

With kindest regards, I am,
Very Respectfully.
Your Student,
Roger Sherman, C.S.

P.S. You will notice above the change in my address.

R.S.

 
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