Accession: V00835
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Unknown, September 24, 1884
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Unknown 
Date: September 24, 1884
Manuscript Description: Letterpress copy of a letter handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy.
Archival Note: This is likely a letter to Samuel J. Avery. See 480.55.027 and 480.55.028.
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My dear Student,

Your sad, sad reports from the West before me. I have letters of Swarts in which he abjures Spiritualism, denies its claims, declares he is not teaching it, etc. I have sent him letters in which I say he is not qualified to teach; but if he is teaching what he says in his letters to me, he must be doing some good. But now he turns again and denies all he has before said to me on paper, and lies publicly!

Your duty and the duty of every scientistEditorial Note: Christian Scientist in Chicago is to get my booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. into the hands of all you can, and write articles for the leading papers denying his having gone through a course of instruction with me; speak of it as it was, he merely visited my class and brought his wife without my invitation. He is a hot headed rogue, fraudulent and daring. You must handle him, use your influence with all that can help you before his efforts get to such proportions as the sinners in Boston, or Chicago will use it. Get the press in your favor (Read what I say here to the C.S.A. in your city) I was sorry to hear the C.S.A. Did not vote in the students of my students so as to get a strength against aggressors.

I have students in Boston teaching and if the student teaches what I do their students join our association. Even if their teaching are not quite right and you get their students into your meetings you can correct their faults and so do more good. I recommend that the Association reconsider that vote and draw in Mr & Mrs. EmersonEditorial Note: William Emerson and Nellie J. Emerson Mrs. Gestefeld and all who are loyal to Truth

Love to your dear wife

Tenderly & truly your Teacher
M B G Eddy

P.S.

I have duplicates of the letters to Swarts Do not fear I am committed in any way to his villainry

M B G E

N.B.

Do not let anyone know what I have written to you in this letter of Swarts

V00835
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dear Student,

Your sad, sad reports from the West before me. I have letters of Swarts in which he abjures Spiritualism, denies its claims, declares he is not teaching it, etc. I have sent him letters in which I say he is not qualified to teach; but if he is teaching what he says in his letters to me, he must be doing some good. But now he turns again and denies all he has before said to me on paper, and lies publicly!

Your duty and the duty of every scientistEditorial Note: Christian Scientist in Chicago is to get my booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. into the hands of all you can, and write articles for the leading papers denying his having gone through a course of instruction with me; speak of it as it was, he merely visited my class and brought his wife without my [?] Unclear or illegible  invitation. He is a hot headed rogue, fraudulent and daring. You must handle him, use your influence with all that can help you before his efforts get to such proportions as the sinners in Boston, or Chicago will use it. Get the press in your favor (Read what I say here to the C.S.A. in your city) I was sorry to hear the C.S.A. Did not vote in the students of my students so as to get a strength against aggressors.

I have [?] Unclear or illegible  students in Boston teaching and if the student teaches what I do their students join our association. Even if their teaching are not quite right and you get their students into your meetings you can correct their faults and so do more good. I recommend that the Association reconsider that vote and draw in Mr & Mrs. EmersonEditorial Note: William Emerson and Nellie J. Emerson Mrs. Gestefeld and all who are loyal to Truth

Love to your dear wife

Tenderly & truly your Teacher
M B G Eddy

P.S.

I have duplicates of the letters to Swarts Do not fear I am committed in any way to his villainry

M B G E

N.B.

Do not let anyone know what I have written to you in this letter of Swarts

 
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