Accession: 480.55.054
Editorial Title: Samuel J. Avery to Mary Baker Eddy, December 18, 1885
Author: Samuel J. Avery 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: December 18, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Samuel J. Avery on embossed lined paper from Chicago, Illinois.
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ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois Dec, 18 - 1885
Rev. M. B. G. Eddy
Boston MassachusettsAs Written:Mass,
My Revered, and Beloved Teacher

Your good, kind letter of the 10-Editorial Note: This letter is not extant. was duly received,

Thank you for your expressed approval of my article for the daily papers, and many thanks for your kind invitation to attend your next course, which I most Gratefully As Written: Greatefully accept.

As to the other matters of which you wrote, I can scarcely bring myself to believe that I am worthy the great confidence you have in me, as that I am equal to the great responsibility which the position will require, But thus far I have shirked no duty, and I feel that I am daily growing "stronger in the Lord"Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. - Truth, and when I see you, perhaps some plan may be satisfactorily arranged, and I feel that with you "to stand by me" all things are possibleMatt 19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Mark 10:27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible. Luke 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible. ,”

Truly & Faithfully thine
S. J. Avery

P.S. Mrs A. joins in love to the dear Teacher,

S. J. A.

In my poem the last two lines of the fourth verse reads, "and love all souls shall blend In God above". If you like it better, you may change them to read, In God all souls shall blend When understood.Editorial Note: The January 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal includes a poem by Samuel J. Avery titled “Hymn to Christian Science,” but the poem does not include these lines. This is meantAs Written:ment, providing you deem the poem worth publishing

Faithfully

S. J. A.

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ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois Dec, 18 - 1885
Rev. M. B. G. Eddy
Boston MassExpanded:Massachusetts,
My Revered, and Beloved Teacher

Your good, kind letter of the 10-Editorial Note: This letter is not extant. was duly received,

Thank you for your expressed approval of my article for the daily papers, and many thanks for your kind invitation to attend your next course, which I most Greatefully Corrected: Gratefully accept.

As to the other matters of which you wrote, I can scarcely bring myself to believe that I am worthy the great confidence you have in me, as that I shall am equal to the great responsibility which the position will require, But thus far I have shirked no duty, and I feel that I am daily growing "stronger in the Lord"Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. - Truth, and when I see you, perhaps some plan may be satisfactorily arranged, and I feel that with you "to stand by me" all things are possibleMatt 19:26 But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Mark 10:27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible. Luke 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible. ,”

Truly & Faithfully thine
S. J. Avery

P.S. Mrs A. joins in love to the dear Teacher,

S. J. A.

In my poem the last two lines of the fourth verse reads, "and love all souls shall blend In God above". If you like it better, you may change them to read, In God all souls shall blend When understood.Editorial Note: The January 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal includes a poem by Samuel J. Avery titled “Hymn to Christian Science,” but the poem does not include these lines. This is mentCorrected:meant, providing you deem the poem worth publishing

Faithfully

S. J. A.

 
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Chicago, Illinois This letter is not extant. The January 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal includes a poem by Samuel J. Avery titled “Hymn to Christian Science,” but the poem does not include these lines.