Accession: 006A.05.002
Editorial Title: Alfred Farlow to Mary Baker Eddy, August 23, 1886
Author: Alfred Farlow 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: August 23, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Alfred Farlow on lined paper from Knoxville, Illinois.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy.
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would like to inquire on what terms you would take my two sistersEditorial Note: Emma L. Farlow and Sarah A. Farlow a brother and myself through a class. We all studied under Mrs. Janet T. Coleman at Beatrice NebraskaAs Written:Nebr. in March last. Three of us are at work here and Brother is at Cambridge this stateEditorial Note: Nebraska. We have left our yoke of oxen at home and have gone out empty-handedAs Written:empty handed. We, like all who become interested in this blessed Truth, are anxious to see Mrs. Eddy and to drink deeper of the Fount. We will try As Written: trry to wait with patience but the harvest is so great and the laborers so fewMatt 9:35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. Matt 9:36 ¶But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Matt 9:37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Matt 9:38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. Luke 10:1 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. Luke 10:2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. we long to get an understanding so as to be able to teach and to preach As Written: peach Christian science. God has wonderfully blessed our labors in this place and adjoining As Written: adjoinings towns The people everywhere are famishing for want of the Truth and who shall give it them. Never As Written: Nevr before could we realize the MastersEditorial Note: Jesus Christ mean ing when he said. "Pray ye the Lord of the harvest that he may send forth As Written: fourth laborers into his vineyardAs Written: vinyard ". I never have seen the time when I had not a desire to do good. But how different when we build on the understanding of God as infin ite Spirit instead of belief founded on the evidence before the senses. When we look to the creator as divine As Written: devine Principle and from this as a basis look for man in its image As Written: immage and likeness, instead of taking this belief of material man as a basis and looking for God created in the image As Written: immage and likeness of this belief thus serving the creature more than the CreatorRom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

I left out a part of my question what will you take myself and one sister for and do you still As Written: stil make a discount of $100.00Editorial Note: $100.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $3,113.36 in 2022. to those coming from a distance. We could not come before October as could not leave the work here. We have arranged to have Mrs. Colman As Written: Coleman here to teach a class in Sept. We are only boys and girls. People hear of the faith doctors (as M. A. M.) calls us) and expect see an old gray-headed As Written: gray headed man with a crooked back and hooked nose (in belief) but when they find only a boy they are taken aback But pardon me for taking up your time with this long letter I desired to say something but hardly knew what to say so have just kept tacking on.

We have been greatly disappointed in not getting As Written: geting a doz. booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy ordered about four weeks ago so many are anxiously waiting Have you shipped?

You will find enclosed As Written: inclosed a P. O. order for $30.00Editorial Note: $30.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $934.01 in 2022. [?] Unclear or illegible  for which please send

1 Doz. Science & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Yours in a living Hope, Faith that is substanceHeb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. and Charity that suffereth longI Cor 13:4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
A. Farlow

P. S. Would refer you to Mrs. Colman As Written: Coleman

Handshift:Mary Baker EddySend date of class for four would discount 400Editorial Note: $400.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $12,453.44 in 2022. leaving As Written: leavng it 200Editorial Note: $200.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $6,226.72 in 2022. per pupil. Do not discount on distance now
006A.05.002
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
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would like to inquire on what terms you would take my two sistersEditorial Note: Emma L. Farlow and Sarah A. Farlow a brother and myself througkh a class. We all studied under Mrs. Janet T. Coleman at Beatrice Nebr.Expanded:Nebraska in March last. Three of us are at work here and Brother is at Cambridge this stateEditorial Note: Nebraska. We have left our yoke of oxen at home and have gone out empty handedCorrected:empty-handed. We, like all who become interested in this blessed tTruth, are a [?] Unclear or illegible nxious to see Mrs. Eddy and to drink deeper of the Fount. We will trry Corrected: try to wait with patience but the harvest is so great and the laborers so fewMatt 9:35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. Matt 9:36 ¶But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Matt 9:37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Matt 9:38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. Luke 10:1 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. Luke 10:2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. we long to get an understanding so as to be able to teach and to peach Corrected: preach it Christian science. God has wonderfully blessed our labors in this place and adjoinings Corrected: adjoining towns The people everywhere are famishing for want of the Truth and who shall give it them. Nevr Corrected: Never before could we realize the MastersEditorial Note: Jesus Christ meant ing when he said. The "Pray ye the Lord of the harvest that he may send fourth Corrected: forth laborers into his vinyard Corrected: vineyard". I never have seen the time when I [?] Unclear or illegible  had not a desire to do good. But how different when we build on the understanding of God as infina ite Spirit instead of belief founded on the evidence before the senses. When we look to the creator as devine Corrected: divine Principle and from this as a basis look for man in its immage Corrected: image and likenessof Spirit, instead of taking this belief of material man as a basis and looking for God created in the immage Corrected: image and likeness of this belief thus serving the creature more than the CreatorRom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

I left out a part of my question what will you take myself and one sister for and do you stil Corrected: still make a discount of $100.00Editorial Note: $100.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $3,113.36 in 2022. to those coming from a distance. We could not come before October as could not leave the work here. We have arranged to have Mrs. Coleman Corrected: Colman here to teach a class in Sept. We are only boys and girls. People hear of the faith doctors (as M. A. M.) calls us) and expect see an old gray headed Corrected: gray-headed man with a crooked back and hooked nose (in belief) but when they find only a boy they are taken aback But pardon me for taking up your time with this long letter I desired to say something but hardly knew what to say so have just kept tacking on.

We have been greatly disappointed in not geting Corrected: getting a doz. booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy ordered about four weeks ago so many are anxiously waiting Have you shipped?

You will find inclosed Corrected: enclosed a P. O. order for $30.00Editorial Note: $30.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $934.01 in 2022. [?] Unclear or illegible  for which please send

1 Doz. Science & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Yours in a living Hope, Faith that is substanceHeb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. and Charity that suffereth longI Cor 13:4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
A. Farlow

P. S. Would refer you to Mrs. Coleman Corrected: Colman

Handshift:Mary Baker EddySend date of class [?] Unclear or illegible for four I would discount 400Editorial Note: $400.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $12,453.44 in 2022. leavng Corrected: leaving it 200Editorial Note: $200.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $6,226.72 in 2022. per pupil. Do not discount for on distance now
 
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Emma L. Farlow and Sarah A. Farlow Nebraska Jesus Christ $100.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $3,113.36 in 2022. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy $30.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $934.01 in 2022. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy $400.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $12,453.44 in 2022. $200.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $6,226.72 in 2022.