Accession: 667B.72.053
Editorial Title: Lydia H. Fisher to Mary Baker Eddy, December 10, 1884
Author: Lydia H. Fisher 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: December 10, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Lydia H. Fisher from Roxbury, Massachusetts.
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I humbly beg your pardon for intruding on your time and patience my extreme As Written: extreem anxiety to see you a few moments activates me to write hoping you will feel like noticing it. I am a poor woman Sixty seven years old a widow the last seven years with no means of support but my hands some four years since As Written: sinec I was returning home from a Lecture and cruelly run over and knocked down by rude Girls and Boys my Hip broken I laid Six weeks in the Hospital after a year of Suffering I got on the crutches then I fell down a long flight of stairs since then cannot straighten my knee or bend it and it is terrible As Written: terible hard for me to walk with crutches

I have been a constant reader of your BooksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. since last March and have been treated by one of your students but cannot walk without two crutches I have tried so hard to see you I do not expect you to treat me but felt that the faith Sick woman had in Jesus days if I might As Written: mite hear you speak and touch As Written: tuch the hem of your garment that I would be made wholeMatt 9:20 ¶And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: Matt 9:21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. Matt 9:22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour. Mark 5:25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, Mark 5:26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, Mark 5:27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. Mark 5:28 For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. Mark 5:29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. Mark 5:30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? Mark 5:31 And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? Mark 5:32 And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. Mark 5:33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. Mark 5:34 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague. Luke 8:43 ¶And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, Luke 8:44 Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched. Luke 8:45 And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? Luke 8:46 And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. Luke 8:47 And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. Luke 8:48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace. I am so unable to get out I feel it such a task unless I can see you if you could read this miserable written lines and could feel like seeing whenever I could get there I feel it would make me whole and happy

Please forgive me the liberty I have taken I will wait As Written: waite and pray for an answer I dreamed last night I walked I was so happy I awoke and so disappointed

With much love I am your unworthy friend and Sister
L H Fisher
No 30
Dennis St
Roxbury Boston
667B.72.053
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I humbly beg your pardon for intruding on your time and patience my extreem Corrected: extreme anxiety to see you a few moments activates me to write hoping you will feel like noticing it. I am a poor woman Sixty seven years old a widow the last seven years with no means of support but my hands some four years sinec Corrected: since I was returning home from a Lecture and cruelly run over and knocked down by rude Girls and Boys my Hip broken I laid Six weeks in the Hospital after a year of Suffering I got on the crutches then I fell down a long flight of stairs since then cannot straighten my knee or bend it and it is terible Corrected: terrible hard for me to walk with crutches

I have been a constant reader of your BooksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. since last March and have been treated by one of your students but cannot walk without two crutches I have tried so hard to see you I do not expect you to treat me but felt that the faith Sick woman had in Jesus days if I mite Corrected: might hear you speak and tuch Corrected: touch the hem of your garment that I would be made wholeMatt 9:20 ¶And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: Matt 9:21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. Matt 9:22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour. Mark 5:25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, Mark 5:26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, Mark 5:27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. Mark 5:28 For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. Mark 5:29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. Mark 5:30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? Mark 5:31 And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? Mark 5:32 And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. Mark 5:33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. Mark 5:34 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague. Luke 8:43 ¶And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, Luke 8:44 Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched. Luke 8:45 And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? Luke 8:46 And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. Luke 8:47 And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. Luke 8:48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace. I am so unable to get out I feel it such a task unless I can see you if you could read this miserable written lines and could feel like seeing whenever I could get there I feel it would make me whole and happy

Please forgive me the liberty I have taken I will waite Corrected: wait and pray for an answer I dreamed last night I walked I was so happy I awoke and so disappointed

With much love I am your unworthy friend and Sister
L H Fisher
3 c No 30
Dennis St
Roxbury Boston
 
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