Accession: 350.47.018
Editorial Title: H. C. Waddell to Silas J. Sawyer, September 28, 1886
Author: H. C. Waddell 
Recipient: Silas J. Sawyer 
Date: September 28, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by H. C. Waddell on unlined paper from Leipsic, Ohio.
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Yours received.Editorial Note: This letter is not extant. I write to you finally. Having received since writing to you last a communication from Mrs Dr French enclosing a copy of resolutions she had furnished after my leaving BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts I send to her the original copy of the resolutions with a copy also as prepared by me in conventional form.. I have the utmost confidence in her integrity and she can publish them just as she pleases but I now offer protest to the use of my name one way or another in your Journal. I am preparing a lecture on "What is Christian Science" and if there is any underhand work in this matter I shall not spare it. I would not do Mrs Eddy any harm nor anyoneAs Written:any one else, but I will not have people imposed on while I have voice or pen. You can publish what you please but you cannot do so in the name of that class mark you and then state in its connection that I was a member of that class.

I think there is so much in the practice of Christian ScienceAs Written:C. S- foreign to the spirit of Christ that no man who truly loves humanity and pure religionJames 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. can endorse it with a clear conscience.

But enough. Do not use my name directly or indirectly as approving any resolutions. or you will hear from me again but in another way. I will furnish my own resolutions.

Yours et ceteraAs Written:&c
H. C. Waddell.
350.47.018
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

Yours received.Editorial Note: This letter is not extant. I write to you finally. Having received since writing to you last a communication from Mrs Dr French enclosing a copy of resolutions she had furnished after my leaving BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts I send to her the original copy of the resolutions with a copy also as prepared by me in conventional form.. I have the utmost confidence in her integrity and she can publish them just as she pleases but I now offer protest to the use of my name one way or another in your Journal. I am preparing a lecture on "What is C [?] Unclear or illegible hristian Science" and if there is any underhand work in this matter I shall not spare it. I would not do Mrs Eddy any harm [?] Unclear or illegible  nor any oneCorrected:anyone else, but I will not have people imposed on while I have voice or pen. You can publish what you please but you cannot do so in the name of that class [?] Unclear or illegible  mark you and then state in its connection that I was a member of that class.

I think there is so much in the practice of C. S-Expanded:Christian Science foreign to the spirit of Christ that no man who truly loves humanity and pure religionJames 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. I cannot can endorse it with a clear conscience.

But enough. Do not use my name directly or indirectly as approving any resolutions. or you will hear from me aga [?] Unclear or illegible in but in another way. I will furnish my own resolutions.

Yours &cExpanded:et cetera
H. C. Waddell.
 
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