Accession: 528.57.024
Editorial Title: William T. Carpenter to Mary Baker Eddy, August 20, 1887
Author: William T. Carpenter 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: August 20, 1887
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by William T. Carpenter on lined printed stationery of The Mesa County Bank, from Grand Junction, Colorado.
Archival Note: There are cross-outs on the document done in pencil. Mary Baker Eddy may have done these for future publishing of the document in The Christian Science Journal.
Editorial Note: Carpenter’s question was printed in the “Questions Answered” section of the October 1887 issue of The Christian Science Journal. In that issue, Eddy restated the question and provided an answer. The question and answer later appeared, in revised and expanded form, in Eddy's book, Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896, on page 83.
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Grand Junction, ColoradoAs Written:Colo., Aug 20 1887


In your Book Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Page 181 you Say, (Every Sin is the author of itself : and every invalid the causeAs Written:caus of his own Sufferings,):

on Page 182. But I repeat it, Sickness is A growth of illusion Springing from A seed of thought: either your own thought or another's:,

Will you please explain this (Seemingly) Contradiction

W T Carpenter
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Grand Junction, Colo.Expanded:Colorado, Aug 20 1887
Mrs M B G Eddy }
Boston MassExpanded:Massachusetts }
My Dear Mrs Eddy

In your Book Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Page 181 you Say, (Every Sin is the author of itself : and every invalid the causCorrected:cause of his own Sufferings,):

on Page 182. But I repeat it, Sickness is A growth of illusion Springing from A seed of thought: either your own thought or another's:,

Will you please explain this (Seemingly) Contradiction

Very Truly A Student
W T Carpenter
 
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