Accession: L07460
Editorial Title: Elizabeth Webster et al to Mary Baker Eddy, July 16, 1897
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Elizabeth Webster  Mary M. W. Adams  Ruth B. Ewing  Kate Davidson Kimball  Edward A. Kimball 
Date: July 16, 1897
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
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Mrs. Webster, Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Ewing, Mrs. Kimball, Mr. Kimball.
My beloved Students;

My birthdayEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy was born on July 16, 1821. you have made not only historic, but sacred to the memory of five of my most useful and loved students. I have for thirty years endeavored to forget what is behindPhil 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, Phil 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. , but your gift of a beautiful silver pitcher to me on this day makes it valuable As Written: valuabl , memorable; and that which is to be pressed forwardPhil 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, Phil 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. to as a joy in memory.

Accept my deep-felt thanks. May the God of Israel preserve your pitcher As Written: pither "unbroken at the fountain"Eccl 12:1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; Eccl 12:2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: Eccl 12:3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, Eccl 12:4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low; Eccl 12:5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: Eccl 12:6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Eccl 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

With love mother,
Mary Baker Eddy
A.D. 1897,
77. July 16th
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Mrs. Webster, Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Ewing, Mrs. Kimball, Mr. Kimball.
My beloved Students;

My birthdayEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy was born on July 16, 1821. you have made not only historic, but sacred to the memory of five of my most useful and loved students. I have for thirty years endeavored to forget what is behindPhil 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, Phil 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. , but your gift of a beautiful silver pitcher to me on this day makes it valuabl Corrected: valuable , memorable; and that which is to be pressed forwardPhil 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, Phil 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. to as a joy in memory.

Accept my deep-felt thanks. May the God of Israel preserve your pither Corrected: pitcher "unbroken at the fountain"Eccl 12:1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; Eccl 12:2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: Eccl 12:3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, Eccl 12:4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low; Eccl 12:5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: Eccl 12:6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Eccl 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

With love mother,
Mary Baker Eddy
A.D. 1897,
77. July 16th
 
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