Accession: 382.50.063
Editorial Title: Eldridge J. Smith to Mary Baker Eddy, June 1885
Author: Eldridge J. Smith 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: June 1885 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Eldridge J. Smith on unlined paper.
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You “shall bruise the serpents head”Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. , - You shall break the circuit of mesmerism.

Do you remember the conversation we had just before I left Boston As Written: Bsoton ?

Strange that the idea should have taken such possession As Written: posession of me – that I should have felt the necessity to say what I did –

You are that “harp of a thousand strings” and not one in a million can appreciate you – (I say, I am one of the million) –

One rude touch of one of these thousand beatitudes As Written: beautitudes of thought, of feeling, of intuitions – (oh the poverty of language!) thrills you with joy, if touched by the fingers of love and truth; - and oh what a wrangle and jangle is there when your whole soul rises up in arms at the approach the enemy of the childEditorial Note: Christian Science you so love and labor for!

But now you can and must fight the enemy at a distance – You shall have more rest and quietude As Written: quitude , and nations shall rise and call you blessedProv 31:28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. .

Why, what am I writing!

Do these things As Written: thing I write accord As Written: accorde with what you think?

382.50.063
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

You “shall bruise the serpents head”Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. , - You shall break the circuit of mesmerism.

Do you remember the conversation we had just before I left Bsoton Corrected: Boston ?

Strange that the idea should have taken such posession Corrected: possession of me – that I should have felt the necessity to say what I did –

You are that “harp of a thousand strings” and not one in a million can appreciate you – (I say, I am one of the million) –

One rude touch of one of these thousand beautitudes Corrected: beatitudes of thought, of feeling, of intuitions – (oh the poverty of language!) thrills you with joy, if touched by the fingers of love and truth; - and oh what a wrangle and jangle is there when your whole soul rises up in arms at the approach the enemy of the childEditorial Note: Christian Science you so love and labor for!

But now you can and must fight the enemy at a distance – You shall have more rest and quitude Corrected: quietude , and nations shall rise and call you blessedProv 31:28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. .

Why, what am I writing!

Do these thing Corrected: things I write accorde Corrected: accord with what you think?

 
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