Accession: L10069
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Mary Hinds Philbrick, September 24, 1885
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Mary Hinds Philbrick 
Date: September 24, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on lined Massachusetts Metaphysical College stationery.
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My dear Student

Wrote you two or three days sinceEditorial Note: See L10067 and L10068., hope you have the letter now. The spiritual darkness that mal. mes. leaves on your mind is all that you are really in danger from. I see this darkness in everyoneAs Written:every one that writes me on this questionEditorial Note: This is possibly a reference to the action of the Chicago Christian Scientist Association in dismissing Samuel J. Avery from its membership. from Chicago Now knowing the physical symptoms of disease is no aid spiritually, and you can heal them only by spiritual not material power Arouse yourself from this spiritual blindness that seeking other GodsEx 20:2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Ex 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. occasions and find Truth and Love the only power, for they are and you ought to know this.

I want to instruct Mr W. If you "take the sword you will perish with it"Matt 26:51 And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest’s, and smote off his ear. Matt 26:52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. That was what killed my husband he would fight mes. on a material basis, with a human instead of divine sense and I could not be allowed to do his work for him To make him see this was the effect on him of Mal. mes. was the point. His last moments opened his eyes and he said I was right

Lovingly yours
M B G E

Put Christian Scientist on your CardEditorial Note: Mary Hinds Philbrick’s business card as a Christian Science practitioner.

L10069
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dear Student

Wrote you two or three days sinceEditorial Note: See L10067 and L10068., hope you have the letter now. The spiritual darkness that mal. mes. leaves on your mind is all that you are really in danger from. I see this darkness in every oneCorrected:everyone that writes me on this questionEditorial Note: This is possibly a reference to the action of the Chicago Christian Scientist Association in dismissing Samuel J. Avery from its membership. from Chicago Now knowing the physical symptoms of disease is no aid spiritually, and you can heal them only by spiritual not material power Arouse yourself from this spiritual blindness that seeking other GodsEx 20:2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Ex 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. occasions and find Truth and Love the only power, for they are and you ought to know this.

I want to instruct Mr W. If you "take the sword you will perish with it"Matt 26:51 And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest’s, and smote off his ear. Matt 26:52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. That was what killed my husband he would fight it, mes. on a material basis, with a human instead of divine sense and I could not be allowed to do his work for him To make him see this was the effect on him of the Mal. mes. was the point. His last moments opened his eyes and he said I was right

Lovingly your [?] Unclear or illegible s
M B G E

Put Christian Scientist on your CardEditorial Note: Mary Hinds Philbrick’s business card as a Christian Science practitioner.

 
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Boston, Massachusetts See L10067 and L10068. This is possibly a reference to the action of the Chicago Christian Scientist Association in dismissing Samuel J. Avery from its membership. Mary Hinds Philbrick’s business card as a Christian Science practitioner.