Accession: V00922
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Samuel G. Todd, January 27, 1886
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Samuel G. Todd 
Date: January 27, 1886
Manuscript Description: Letterpress copy of a letter handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy.
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Because you was my husband's student I humble myself to notice something I have no right to be troubled with – namely. Your assertion that my College, and other of my students are afflicting you with a criminal interference of mind such as Malicious mental malpractice.

Here I assert most solemnlyAs Written:solemly, and. with all the honesty that I would, if it was my dying breath that I do not remember of having you once in my mind, until now since I wrote you last. I have but one student with me in the College, he is a Christian if ever there was one, and I give you his address – Calvin A. Frye, he will answer this question of whether he is employed in any such service

Some Students have gone out of the College, whom I have before now instructed to take up the question of attacks from malicious malpractice, on this wise, that they, the sinners, must suffer for their sins and not the innocent. But this could cause no suffering to one who was not the attacking party. After the abovenamedAs Written:above named students left the College, and none remained but Miss. Bartlett and Mr. Frye, I learned more of the right way of meeting this question and I refer you to them to answer if I did not advise to leave out all personality in meeting this question and only meet it as you would sickness, namely, that it is nothing. This rule is the only one I teach now, and observe, and it is sovereign to heal; for God is all and we must find it out.

In my last class I had Rev. Dr. Gifford a Baptist clergyman of BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts, I refer you to him for the corroboration of what I teach. Also, my revised Edition of Science and Health.

This hour is repeating As Written: repeatting Salem Witchcraft As Written: Whitchcraft in putting the crimes of the guilty ontoAs Written:on to the innocent

Truly yours
M B G Eddy
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

Because you was my husband's student I humble myself to notice something I have no right to be troubled with – namely. Your assertion that my College, and other of my students are afflicting you with a criminal interference of [?] Unclear or illegible  mind such as Malicious mental malpractice.

Here I assert most solemlyCorrected:solemnly, and. with all the honesty that I would, if it was my dying breath that I do not remember of having you once in my mind, until now since I wrote you last. I have but one student with me in the College, he is a Christian if ever there was one, and I give you his address – Calvin A. Frye, he will answer this question of whether he is employed in any such service

Some Students have gone out of the College, whom I have before now instructed to take up the question of attacks from malicious malpractice, on this wise, that they, the sinners, must suffer for it their sins and not the innocent. But this could cause no suffering to one who was not the attacking party. After the above namedCorrected:abovenamed students left the College, and none remained but Miss. Bartlett and Mr. Frye, I learned more of the right way of meeting this question and I refer you to them to answer if I did not advise to leave out all personality in meeting this question and only meet it as you would sickness, namely, that it is nothing. This rule is the only one I teach now, and observe, and it is sovereign to heal; for God is all and we must find it out.

In my last class I had Rev. Dr. Gifford a Baptist clergyman of BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts, I refer you to him for the corroboration of what I teach. Also, my revised Edition of Science and Health.

This hour is repeatting Corrected: repeating Salem Whitchcraft Corrected: Witchcraft in putting the crimes of the guilty on toCorrected:onto the innocent

Truly yours
M B G Eddy
 
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