Accession: L12982
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Ellen Brown Linscott, September 30, 1885
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Ellen Brown Linscott 
Date: September 30, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on lined Massachusetts Metaphysical College stationery.
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My darling Student

Your strong letterEditorial Note: See 163A.27.032. brought tears to my eyes and called back one of the awful clouds of care that encompass me continually All you say of the great lack of others is known to me and that is why like the lioness robbed As Written: robed of her young I am more savage over the symptoms of their taking others It has always been the most promising ones that mal. mes. has silently robbed me of I saw what you cannot see I have in the most scathing rebuke met every word said against you so much so they dare not repeat" it

But to you alone I cry out as the watch man on the wallsIsa 62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and because I love you and garner too many hopes in you to let anything harm your progress

Ever the same
M B G Eddy

I spoke of joining the Church etc. only that you might see if others do not that as a people our light must be set on a hillMatt 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. , and I am weary weary of such spiritual famine. Not that you are not getting ready to meet the bridegroomMatt 25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. but to name the garments you should put onIsa 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

L12982
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My darling Student

Your strong letterEditorial Note: See 163A.27.032. brought tears to my eyes and called back one of the awful clouds of care that encompass me continually All you say of the great lack of others is known to me and that is why like the lioness robed Corrected: robbed of her young I am more savage over the symptoms of their taking others It has always been the most promising ones that mal. mes. has silently robbed me of I saw what you cannot see I have in the most scathing rebuke met every word said against you so much so they dare not repeat" it

But to you alone I cry out as the watch man on the wallsIsa 62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and because I love you and garner too many hopes in you to let anything harm your progress

Ever the same
M B G Eddy

I spoke of joining the Church etc. only that you might see if others do not that as a people our light must be set on a hillMatt 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. , and I am weary weary of such spiritual famine. Not that you were are not [?] Unclear or illegible  getting ready to meet the bridegroomMatt 25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. but to name the garments you should put onIsa 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

 
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