Accession: L02077
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Eldridge J. Smith, January 8, 1885
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Eldridge J. Smith 
Date: January 8, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on lined Massachusetts Metaphysical College stationery.
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My dear Student,

Your excellent letterEditorial Note: See 382.50.054. came duly. O! the cares that hold me in their iron grasp canker As Written: cenker into my life, but I am happy when I get off the fetters a single moment. You that have more freedom should come to my aid. I would not see you bound and not feel bound with you sufficiently to bear your burdensGal 6:2 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. , and surely you are full of all compassion if you have, as I know you have to a great extent , that spirit which was also in Christ JesusPhil 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: You were oversensitiveAs Written:over sensitive my very dear Student to suppose I was speaking to you as to a schoolboyAs Written:school boy. I never do that only as the schoolmasterAs Written:school master that all our afflictions are to bring us to Christ, Truth. Under that charge I plead guilty When I opened in Boston work about two years ago, I had for the first meeting of the C. S. A. 7 present members Now going on to the second hundred members

Come to Macedonia and help usActs 16:9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. Acts 16:10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.

Your Loving teacher
M B G E

O how I hope this year shall be crowned for you blessing upon blessingPs 65:11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. rod upon rod till all be fulfilledMatt 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Luke 21:32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.

L02077
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dear Student,

Your excellent letterEditorial Note: See 382.50.054. came duly. O! the cares that hold me in their iron grasp cenker Corrected: canker into my life, but I am happy when I get off the fetters a single moment. You that have more freedom should come to my aid. I would not see you bound and not feel bound with you sufficiently to bear your burdensGal 6:2 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. , and surely you are full of all compassion if you have, as I know you have to a great extent have, that spirit which was also in Christ JesusPhil 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: You were over sensitiveCorrected:oversensitive my very dear Student to suppose I was speaking to you as to a school boyCorrected:schoolboy. I never do that only as the school masterCorrected:schoolmaster that all our afflictions are to bring us to Christ, Truth. Under that charge I plead guilty When I opened in Boston work about two years ago, I had for the first meeting of the C. S. A. 7 present members Now going on to the second hundred members

Come to Macedonia and help usActs 16:9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. Acts 16:10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them.

Your Loving teacher
M B G E

O how I hope this year shall be crowned for you blessing upon blessingPs 65:11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. rod upon rod till all be fulfilledMatt 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Luke 21:32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.

 
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