Accession: L04884
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Emily M. Meader, October 2, 1882
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Emily M. Meader 
Date: October 2, 1882 - month is archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy from Boston, Massachusetts, on lined Massachusetts Metaphysical College stationery.
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2nd 1882
Dear Mrs. Meader

I have a few spare moments and devote them to you having long had a desire to talk with you alone on the subject of your studying with me Metaphysical healing

It has seemed to me since our arrangement of that matter last Spring that I was not understood, perhaps, by the wives whose husbands I desired to join them in this grand and glorious research after all that makes being harmonious.

I can never conceive of even mortal mind misapprehending my motive although it may my method. I have lain too much on this altar of willing sacrifice to have that doubted, but perhaps you did not see the need that I saw of having it just as I planned As Written: planed it for you.

If you did not there remains an opportunity As Written: oppertunity the same as before and a cordial welcome for you to come to the fount where our FatherEditorial Note: God has opened As Written: opend the streams of salvation and be made anew in his likeness. We all have need of this baptismal, and every aid that can be given us in this regeneration, so great is the demand to be perfect even as the FatherMatt 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

I would not have you kept away for a moment by the thought that you without your husband would not be a desirable student for this I have already assured you, and here, can only add that I had much rather teach a woman than a man this secret of holiness and the only reason I request them to study together is not because I have not a doable As Written: doble task in teaching two instead of one, but because I lay myself on the altar, in this, as in all things, that I may accomplish the most good for the greatest number and employ the exact means of doing it. I am soon to have a very interesting classEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy taught the following students in October 1882: Mary F. Berry, Jennie P. Davis, Mrs. Perley Green, Mary B. Mourn, Amelia Wheeler, Abbie K. Whiting, Mrs. George S. Williams, and Mary E. Wood. of advanced thinkers, would you like to join itEditorial Note: Emily M. Meader did not study with Mary Baker Eddy until March 1888.?

Respects to your husband

Very truly,

Yours
M B G Eddy
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2nd 1882
Dear Mrs. Meader

I have a few spare moments and devote them to you having long had a desire to talk with you alone on the subject of your studying with me Metaphysical healing

It has seemed to me since our arrangement of that matter last Spring that I was not understood, perhaps, by the wives whose husbands I desired to join them in this grand and glorious research after all that makes being harmonious.

I can never conceive of even mortal mind misapprehending my motive although it may my method. I have lain too much on this altar of willing sacrifice to have that doubted, but perhaps you did not see the need that I saw of having it just as I planed Corrected: planned it for you.

If you did not there remains an oppertunity Corrected: opportunity the same as before and a cordial welcome for you to come to the fount where our FatherEditorial Note: God has opend Corrected: opened the streams of salvation and be made anew in his likeness. We all have need of this baptismal, and every aid that can be given us in this regeneration, so great is the demand to be perfect even as the FatherMatt 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

I would not have you kept away for a moment by the thought that you without your husband would not be a desirable student for this I have already assured you, and here, can only add that I had much rather teach a woman than a man this secret of holiness and the only reason I request them to study together is not because I have not a doble Corrected: doable task in teaching two instead of one, but because I lay myself on the altar, in this, as in all things, that I may accomplish the most good for the greatest number and employ the exact means of doing it. I am soon to have a very interesting classEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy taught the following students in October 1882: Mary F. Berry, Jennie P. Davis, Mrs. Perley Green, Mary B. Mourn, Amelia Wheeler, Abbie K. Whiting, Mrs. George S. Williams, and Mary E. Wood. of advanced thinkers, would you like to join itEditorial Note: Emily M. Meader did not study with Mary Baker Eddy until March 1888.?

Respects to your husband

Very truly,

Yours
M B G Eddy
 
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God Mary Baker Eddy taught the following students in October 1882: Mary F. Berry, Jennie P. Davis, Mrs. Perley Green, Mary B. Mourn, Amelia Wheeler, Abbie K. Whiting, Mrs. George S. Williams, and Mary E. Wood. Emily M. Meader did not study with Mary Baker Eddy until March 1888.