Accession: 723A.89.037
Editorial Title: George E. Whipple to Mary Baker Eddy, August 21, 1884
Author: George E. Whipple 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: August 21, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by George E. Whipple on embossed lined paper from Jersey City Heights, New Jersey.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy.
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Jersey City HeightsEditorial Note: Jersey City Heights, New Jersey Aug 21st 1884
Mrs. Eddy
Dear Madam

YoursEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. of 16th instantAs Written:inst. duly receivedAs Written:rec’d, and considered (at least to some extent) I fail to find an explanation of one question, that is, do you charge any more for the tuition of a man and his wife than you do for either one separately?

Does the full amount $455Editorial Note: Class instruction with Mary Baker Eddy typically cost $300 per person. She sometimes offered a discount in certain cases. have to be paid in advance?

Do you have more than one class or course each year?

We have been considering this matter for some time, with a view to joining the class in Sept. to learn and to teach the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, circumstances are such that we fear, that we shall be unable to commence with you on Sept. 1st. What is the next best thing for us to do? In what way are examinations for entrance conducted; and what qualifications are requisite? I judge that entering your class at the 2nd. or 3rd. week of the course would be similar to entering any other school when it is 1/3 or 2/3 gone.

To thoroughly understand a science, a person needs to know the rudiments, in order to fully comprehend the more advanced explanations of its principles. Those things which we find true in physical Sciences, I judge would be emphatically As Written: emphaticaly more so in Metaphysical Science.

There are many questions which arise in our thoughts as we contemplate the new features of this ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, as set forth by you in those books. Being confident that it is not idle curiosity which prompts these questions we have ventured to thus address you, hoping you will understand those points of business which we would naturally want to know all about, to properly “count the cost, before we begin to build”Luke 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Luke 14:29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, Luke 14:30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. and answer accordingly as soon as convenient, and, Oblige

Yours RespectfullyAs Written:Resp’ty.
Geo. E. Whipple
47 Cottage St. Jersey City Heights New JerseyAs Written:N.J.

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Jersey City HeightsEditorial Note: Jersey City Heights, New Jersey Aug 21st 1884
Mrs. Eddy
Dear Madam

YoursEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. of 16th inst.Expanded:instant duly rec’dExpanded:received, and considered (at least to some extent) I fail to find an explanation of one question, that is, do you charge any more for the tuition of a man and his wife than you do for either one separately?

Does the full amount $455Editorial Note: Class instruction with Mary Baker Eddy typically cost $300 per person. She sometimes offered a discount in certain cases. have to be paid in advance?

Do you have more than one class or course each year?

We have been considering this matter for some time, with a view to joining the class in Sept. to learn and to teach the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, circumstances are such that we fear, that we shall be unable to commence with you on Sept. 1st. What is the next best thing for us to do? In what way are examinations for entrance conducted; and what qualifications are requisite? I judge that entering your class at the 2nd. or 3rd. week of the course would be similar to entering any other school when it is 1/3 or 2/3 gone.

To thoroughly understand a science, a person needs to know the rudiments, in order to fully comprehend the more advanced explanations of its principles. Those things which we find true in physical Sciences, I judge would be emphaticaly Corrected: emphatically more so in Metaphysical Science.

There are many questions which arise in our thoughts as we contemplate the new features of this ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, as set forth by you in those books. Being confident that it is not idle curiosity which prompts these questions we have ventured to thus address you, hoping you will understand those points of business which we would naturally want to know all about, to properly “count the cost, before we begin to build”Luke 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Luke 14:29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, Luke 14:30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. and answer accordingly as soon as convenient, and, Oblige

Yours Resp’tyExpanded:Respectfully.
Geo. E. Whipple
47 Cottage St. Jersey City Heights N.J.Expanded:New Jersey

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