Accession: V00856
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Fannie M. Silsbee, November 29, 1884
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Fannie M. Silsbee 
Date: November 29, 1884
Manuscript Description: Letterpress copy of a letter handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy.
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You need make no excuses. You have done all in your power to wound me, but you cannot; there are others doing right while you are doing wrong.

I have the duplicate of my letterEditorial Note: Likely V00845. to you in which I told you if you have repeated the divine law as jesus told you, that "whatsoever a man soweth he shall reap"Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Gal 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. you have nothing to "throw back". I told you to destroy this hate with love etc You replied you did not understand me, and now I see you did not.

Now to try to abuse your teacher you told Miss. Bartlett that Dr. Stone has saved you from the baneful effects of my teachings on the subjectAs Written:sub. of mesmerism. At our last regular meeting of the C.S.A. I named clearly my views of how this abomination is to be met, and mastered, called for a vote and Dr. Stone voted with them all that he agreed with me. That is on record. You have run before it, so has he, and neither of you have met it and mastered as I teach.Ex 4:2 And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod. Ex 4:3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. Ex 4:4 And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand: Those who have, are not under its control as you are, and it gives them no trouble. Your public measures to injure the sale of Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. can do less harm than you intended. Do you take the word of perjurers against mine? I have said, not but one student I ever paid per cent for sending me Students. I made no agreement with you to pay you for those students you sent that are doing as much as they can to injure the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. and shall not pay for them. You took the booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. on a bargain and are held to it.

Yours in haste
M. B. G. E.

P.S. “

Your expulsion from the C.S.A. is not for "seeking truth" but seeking the pervert it etc.

Now you can stop or go on in the ways of sin with the freedom you desire. May God pity you and save you is the prayer of your Teacher

V00856
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

You need make no excuses. You have done all in your power to wound me, but you cannot; there are others doing right while you are doing wrong.

I have the duplicate of my letterEditorial Note: Likely V00845. to you in which I told you if you have repeated the divine law as jesus told you, that "whatsoever a man soweth he shall reap"Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Gal 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. you have nothing to "throw back". I told you to destroy this hate with love etc You replied you did not understand me, and now I see you did not.

Now to try to and abuse your teacher you told Miss. Bartlett that Dr. Stone has saved you from the baneful effects of my teachings its on the sub.Expanded:subject of mesmerism. At our last regular meeting of the C.S.A. I named clearly my views of how this abomination is to be met, and mastered, called for a vote and Dr. Stone voted with them all that he agreed with me. That is on record. You have run before it, so has he, and neither of you have met it and mastered as I teach.Ex 4:2 And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod. Ex 4:3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. Ex 4:4 And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand: Those who have, are not under its control as you are, and it gives them no trouble. Your public measures to injure the sale of Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. can do less harm than you intended. Do you take the word of perjurers against mine? I have said, not but one student I ever paid per cent for sending me Students. I made no agreement with you to pay you for those you students you sent that are doing as much as they can to injure the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. and shall not pay for them. You took the booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. on a bargain and are held to it.

Yours in haste
M. B. G. E.

P.S. “

Your expulsion from the C.S.A. is not for "seeking truth" but seeking the pervert it etc.

Now you can stop or go on in the ways of sin with the freedom you desire. May God pity you and save you is the prayer of your Teacher

 
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