Accession: V03351
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, May 1864
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Phineas Parkhurst Quimby 
Annotator: Unknown 
Date: May 1864
Manuscript Description: Photocopy of a handwritten letter by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined paper from Warren, Maine.
Archival Note: The original letter is at the Library of Congress. V03351 is a copy of this letter. This letter includes a notation in an unknown hand.
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Handshift:UnknownNo 12
Mary M. Patterson
Warren Maine
May 1864
Dear Doctor,

I have often repeated the first instance of my salvation to wondering hearers, and if when we are converted we should strengthen our bretherenLuke 22:32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. how ought I now to preach..

I have learned more within 2 months than I am capable of practicing, to say the least, but I can preach forever.

A clear and lucid demonstration of the truth you practice has been given in my case. As clear as any experiments I ever saw in clairvoyance. For instance, when I came here I was not troubled essentially with my old diseases; but when I have got heated by nervous excitement I would have inflamed ears eyes or nose Even the injury of my jaw was powerless to hurt me but has gone on to heal

But as I took Miss Jarvis' heat I found in it her fears, and those made me frightened but my heat contained the first of my ideas, that was, the old spinal complaint.

So my attack was immensely severe of pain in the back

I wrote you Wed. I believe; at any rate, while I was wakened by my sufferings the terror of this home and people took fast hold of me, and the Morning after I wrote you before you got my letter I commenced spitting blood, with the ugliest sounding cough I ever heard; when I would lie on my left side the rattling was down apparentlyAs Written:apparantly to the depths of the lungs, my breathing was like the wheezing of asthma! After you got my letter I grew nervous, never slept any Thursday Night, but yesterday Morning (Friday) I dropped to sleep; between the hours of 7, and 8 o'clock, I woke suddenly, as if you called my name; opened my eyes and saw you! called to EmmaEditorial Note: Possibly Emma G. Ware, asked her what time it was? she replied, 8 o'clock. I felt as if I must get up; rose and dressed As Written: dreesed me, went outdoorsAs Written:out doors, felt the spinal idea vanishing— and with it the stiffness and soreness also; came in and after much of agitation on the nerves spoke in a loud voice as usual, only a little hoarse; the only time I could speak aloud after spitting blood. I am up and about TodayAs Written:To day, i.e.As Written:ie, by the help of the Lord! (Quimby) I continue till this time; better understanding the wholesome As Written: wholsome saying "Be ye not over come with evil, but over come evil with good"Rom 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

I thank Wisdom that you were not a hopeless invalid ever; hence your power to resist the DevilJames 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. . When Miss. Jarvis would come to my bed it invariably would set me to coughing And before I was sick she had lost even a hem, or the least approach to a cough; now she is coughing a little but she can't As Written: cant get back for I have borne her sinsIsa 53:4 ¶Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. and you have saved me. I did feel once Why hast thou forsaken me?Ps 22:1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? Matt 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama
sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi,
Eloi,
lama
sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
i.e.As Written:ie, your wisdom; am all right now — Please come occasionally and if you make my nights sleepy and bowels act again I can go on without fear

Ever with Gratitude
M M P.
V03351
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Handshift:UnknownNo 12
Mary M. Patterson
Warren Maine
May 1864
Dear Doctor,

I have often repeated the first instance of my salvation to wondering hearers, and if when we are converted we should strengthen our bretherenLuke 22:32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. how ought I [?] Unclear or illegible now to preach..

I have learned more within 2 months than I am capable of practicing, to say the least, but I can preach forever.

A clear and lucid demonstration of the truth you practice has been given in my case. As clear as any experiments I ever saw in clairvoyance. For instance, when I came here I was not troubled essentially with with my old diseases; but when I have got heated by nervous excitement I would have inflamed ears eyes or nose Even the injury of my jaw was powerless to hurt me but has gone on to heal

But as I took Miss Jarvis' heat I found in it her fears, and those made me frightened but my heat contained the first of my ideas, that was, the old spinal complaint.

So my attack was immensely severe of pain in the back

I wrote you Wed. I believe; at any rate, while I was wakened by my sufferings the terror of this home and people took fast hold of me, and the Morning after you got my I wrote you before you got my letter I commenced spitting [?] Unclear or illegible  blood, with the ugliest sounding cough I ever heard; when I would lie on my left side the rattling was down apparantlyCorrected:apparently to the depths of the lungs, [?] Unclear or illegible  my breathing was like the wheezing of asthma! After you got my letter I grew nervous, never slept any Thursday Night, but yesterday Morning (Friday) I dropped to sleep; between the hours of 7, and 8 o'clock, I woke suddelnly, as if you called my name; opened my eyes and saw you! called to EmmaEditorial Note: Possibly Emma G. Ware, asked her what time it was? she replied, 8 o'clock. I felt as if I must get up; rose and dreesed Corrected: dressed me, went out doorsCorrected:outdoors, felt the spinal idea vanishing— and with it the stiffness and soreness also; came in and after much of agitation on the nerves spoke in a loud voice as usual, only a little hoarse; the only time I could speak aloud after bl spitting blood. I am up and about To dayCorrected:Today, ieCorrected:i.e., by the help of the Lord! (Quimby) I continue till this time; better understanding the wholsome Corrected: wholesome saying "Be ye not over come with evil, but over come evil with good"Rom 12:21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

I thank Wisdom that you were not a hopeless invalid ever; hence your power to resist the DevilJames 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. . When Miss. Jarvis would come to my bed it invariably would set me to coughing And before I was sick she had lost even a hem, or the least approach to a cough; now she is coughing a little but she cant Corrected: can't get back for I have borne her sinssIsa 53:4 ¶Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. and you have saved me. I did feel once Why hast thou forsaken me?Ps 22:1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? Matt 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama
sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi,
Eloi,
lama
sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
ieCorrected:i.e., your wisdom; am all right now — Please come occasionally and my if my nights are you make my nights sleepy and bowels act again I can go on without fear

Ever with Gratitude
M M P.
 
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