Mary Baker Eddy to Katie Swarts, September 30, 1884

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Mary Baker Eddy

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Katie Swarts

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September 30, 1884

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Sept. 30, 1884As Written:4

My Dear Mrs Swarts,

Your very kind letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. came duly. Have been too busy to reply until now. You ask me to help you, and speak of being alone. Whenever I have time to think of you my thoughts will bear you a blessing as they have this and only this for all whom they touch. But sometimesAs Written:some-times it is weeks that I am tied to other cases so I never even think of my most familiar friends. I hope and trust it is well with theeII Kings 4:26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well. now, and no family trouble will ever tarry for a moment. I cannot understand the course your husband is taking only as the result of other minds on him that are seeking his downfall. Can you not counteract such mesmeric influence by Truth? Yes you can, for Truth is mighty to the pulling down of errorII Cor 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: II Cor 10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) II Cor 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; and error is nothing but a claim without a claimant, right or title. Be of good cheerJohn 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. , you have my tender sympathy in every trial and God will sustain you in the right. To have power we must wield it in the service of justice, for Truth and justiceAs Written:justce are one. The greatest injustice ever done a human being and the greatest mistaken crime against God - is to say, or believe that a person besides myself here or there, so called living or dead, ever originated a sentence contained in my book - Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.. That work is the outgrowth of my whole lifeEditorial Note: In a forward to the third edition of Science and Health, titled “To the Public,” Asa Gilbert Eddy wrote: “Mrs. Eddy’s works are the outgrowths of her life.”, as my dear husband used to say.

It was learned of God, never from an author, or a person It was learned through earthly sorrow, and sickness and such as never mortal had before; a life-long experience

that still goes on, ingratitude, betrayals, falsehood , envy, lust and hate arrayed against me. But all is in vain for God is for meRom 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

Ever truly thine

M B G Eddy

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Sept. 30, 4Expanded:1884

My Dear Mrs Swarts,

Your very kind letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. came duly. Have been too busy to reply until now. You ask me to help you, and speak of being alone. Whenever I have time to think of you my thoughts will bear you a blessing as they have this and only this for all whom they touch. But some-timesCorrected:sometimes it is weeks that I am tied to other cases so I never even think of my most familiar friends. I hope and trust it is well with theeII Kings 4:26 Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well. now, and no family trouble will ever tarry for a moment. I cannot understand the course your husband is taking only as the result of other minds on him that are seeking his downfall. Can you not counteract such mesmeric influence by Truth? Yes you can, for Truth is mighty to the pulling down of errorII Cor 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: II Cor 10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) II Cor 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; and error is nothing but a claim without a claimant, right or title. Be of good cheerJohn 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. , you have my tender sympathy in every trial and God will sustain you in the right. To have power we must wield it in the service of justice, for Truth and justceExpanded:justice are one. The greatest injustice ever done a human being and the greatest mistaken crime against God - is to say, or believe that a person besides myself here or there, so called living or dead, ever originated a sentence contained in my book - Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.. That work is the outgrowth of my whole lifeEditorial Note: In a forward to the third edition of Science and Health, titled “To the Public,” Asa Gilbert Eddy wrote: “Mrs. Eddy’s works are the outgrowths of her life.”, as my dear husband used to say.

It was learned of God, never from an author, or a person It was learned through earthly sorrow, and sickness and such as never mortal had before; a life-long experience

Ever truly thine

M B G Eddy

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This letter is not extant. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. In a forward to the third edition of Science and Health, titled “To the Public,” Asa Gilbert Eddy wrote: “Mrs. Eddy’s works are the outgrowths of her life.”