Accession: 033A.13.049
Editorial Title: Septimus J. Hanna to Mary Baker Eddy, March 15, 1894
Author: Septimus J. Hanna 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: March 15, 1894
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Septimus J. Hanna on unlined printed stationery of the Christian Science Publishing Society Editorial Department, from Boston, Massachusetts.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy.
Final Edits
Original Document

Click image to magnify
Full
Back
Close
View Document
View Image
033A.13.049
-
Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Our beloved:

The directorsEditorial Note: The Christian Science Board of Directors of Mother Church have called meEditorial Note: This was due to the sudden death of David A. Easton, who was serving as pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. for one yearAs Written:yr Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy one year Handshift:Septimus J. Hannato the pastorate.

Must I go to this NinevehJonah 1:1 Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of
Amittai, saying,
Jonah 1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
tooAs Written:to? Will I be a Jonah if I do not? Are there two Nineveh's? I thought I had taken my Nineveh when I came to the Journal. What will be the effect of one not a student of yours occupying the double and extremely responsible positions of Pastor of Mother Church, and EditorAs Written:Ed of Jl? or may I retire from the latter?

I feel that in such a moment as this I must fly to my mountainPs 11:1 In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? – to our Mother. She is yet my MosesEx 2:1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. Ex 2:2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. Ex 2:3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. Ex 2:4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. Ex 2:5 ¶And the daughter of
Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
Ex 2:6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children. Ex 2:7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? Ex 2:8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother. Ex 2:9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. Ex 2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
. I am still away in the wilderness. Yet I know HeEditorial Note: God is with me, and that His anointed will rightly guide my feeble footsteps. Tell me of His will.

With deepest Love
S. J. Hanna
033A.13.049
-
Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Our beloved:

The directorsEditorial Note: The Christian Science Board of Directors of Mother Church have called meEditorial Note: This was due to the sudden death of David A. Easton, who was serving as pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. for one yrExpanded:year Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy one year Handshift:Septimus J. Hannato the pastorate.

Must I go to this NinevehJonah 1:1 Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of
Amittai, saying,
Jonah 1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
toCorrected:too? Will I be a Jonah if I do not? Are there two Nineveh's? I thought I had taken my Nineveh when I came to the Journal. What will be the effect of one not a student of yours occupying the double and extremely responsible positions of Pastor of Mother Church, and EdExpanded:Editor of Jl? or may I retire from the latter?

I feel that in such a moment as this I must fly to my mountainPs 11:1 In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain? – to our Mother. She is yet my MosesEx 2:1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. Ex 2:2 And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. Ex 2:3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink. Ex 2:4 And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him. Ex 2:5 ¶And the daughter of
Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
Ex 2:6 And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children. Ex 2:7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? Ex 2:8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother. Ex 2:9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it. Ex 2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
. I am still away in the wilderness. Yet I know HeEditorial Note: God is with me, and that His anointed will rightly guide my feeble footsteps. T [?] Unclear or illegible ell me of His will.

With deepest Love
S. J. Hanna
 
View Image
 

Back Text

Shown for development purposes only
The Christian Science Board of Directors This was due to the sudden death of David A. Easton, who was serving as pastor of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. God