Accession: 476.54.004
Editorial Title: Emma A. McDonald to Mary Baker Eddy, August 20, 1886
Author: Emma A. McDonald 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: August 20, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Emma A. McDonald on lined paper from Fort Howard, Wisconsin.
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I have intended, for a long time, to write you a few lines, in regard to a young girl, that is at my house. She is very anxious to attend your next class. She is a girl that supports herself by sewing. I sold her the books, a year ago, and she has been studying ever since, and doing all the good she could. She is in earnest, and will make a good worker, and that is what we need. She has given up everything for ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, and intends to spend all her time, in this work. I think in view of what the Mind Cure, is trying to do in the West, we need all the honest workers, we can have. I would like to ask, do you take students from a distance, at the same reduction, that you did? Mrs Freeman got word from you, that herself, and husband, could come. Mr. Freeman cannot go. I know you only take a limited number. Can this young lady come instead of Mr. Freeman? If so, will you telegraph one word, "Come," to me, and then we will know. I went to St. Paul, with Mrs. SargentEditorial Note: Laura E. Sargent or Victoria H. Sargent, and stayed nearly two weeks with her. We are all working for the MasterEditorial Note: Jesus Christ, with all our hearts, amid trials and persecutions, not looking for a present reward, but knowing "He is faithful, who has promised."Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

Your Loving Student,
E. A. McDonald.
476.54.004
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

I have intended, for a long time, to write you a few lines, in regard to a young girl, that is at my house. She is very anxious to attend your next class. She is a girl that supports herself by sewing. I sold her the books, a year ago, and she has been studying ever since, and doing all the good she could. She is in earnest, and will malke a good worker, and that is what we need. She has given up everything for ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, and intends to spend all her time, in this work. I think in view of what the Mind Cure, is trying to do in the West, we need all the honest workers, we can have. I would like to ask, do you take students from a distanc [?] Unclear or illegible e, at the same reduction, that you did? Mrs Freeman got word from you, that herself, and husband, could come. Mr. Freeman cannot go. I know you only take a limited number. Can this young lady come instead of Mr. Freeman? If so, will you telegraph one word, "Come," to me, and then we will know. I went to St. Paul, with Mrs. SargentEditorial Note: Laura E. Sargent or Victoria H. Sargent, and stayed nearly two weeks with her. We are all working for the MasterEditorial Note: Jesus Christ, with all our hearts, amid trials and persecutions, not looking for a present reward, but knowing "He is faithful, who has promised."Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

Your Loving Student,
E. A. McDonald.
 
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