Accession: 321.44.017
Editorial Title: Roger Sherman to Mary Baker Eddy, January 17, 1886
Author: Roger Sherman 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: January 17, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Roger Sherman on unlined paper from Chicago, Illinois.
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321.44.017
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My dear Teacher:

Had the word "Forbid" been the one best to express your meaning I could have taken no exceptions to it as it is your unquestioned right to so regulate the use of your name as to accord with your best judgment or wishes. However you have perhaps been misinformed concerning As Written: concerining a communication to the press which I was requested to write. I think the good sense of our AssociationEditorial Note: The Christian Scientist Association of Chicago was a branch of the C.S.A. in Boston, Massachusetts. would deplore a newspaper fusillade, and if there has been any danger of such it is a matter of which I have no knowledge.

Pursuant to above request, I prepared a brief article which was in substance similar to what has been published before; its purpose being in a general way to keep before the public the fact that discrimination in the employment of mental treatment, as between the true and the false, is necessaryAs Written:nescessary. A brief attempt was made to point the distinction between Christian Science and the various practices which obtain at the present time; "mind cure" was mentioned but no names called. The article was rejected by the press.

I thank you for your kind wishes; accept mine in return and the assurance of my sympathy with you in the great good you are working to accomplish.

Very Respectfully
Roger Sherman.
321.44.017
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dear Teacher:

Had the word "Forbid" been the one best to express your meaning I could have taken no exceptions to it as it is your unquestioned right to so regulate the use of your name as to accord with your best judgment or wishes. However you have eperhaps been misinformed concerining Corrected: concerning a communication to the press which I was requested to write. I think the good sense of our AssociationEditorial Note: The Christian Scientist Association of Chicago was a branch of the C.S.A. in Boston, Massachusetts. would dleplore a newspaper fusillade, and if there has been any danger of such it is a matter of which I have no knowledge.

Pursuant to above request, I prepared a brief article which was in substance similar to what has been published before; its purpose being in a general way to keep before the public the fact that discrimination in the employment of mental treatment, as between the true and the false, was is nescessaryCorrected:necessary. A brief attempt was made to point the distinction between Christian Science and the various practices which obtain at the present time; "mind cure" was mentioned but no names called. The article was rejected by the press.

I thank you for your kind wishes; accept mine in return and the assurance of my sympathy with you in the great good you are working to accomplish.

Very Respectfully
Roger Sherman.
 
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Chicago, Illinois The Christian Scientist Association of Chicago was a branch of the C.S.A. in Boston, Massachusetts.