Your letterEditorial Note: See V00985. receivedAs Written:recd and I should have written before but I have hardly felt able to do so the shock was so great. I have looked over all that has happened since I came here & I can see nothing out of which to make such a lie. I have been true to the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science & your teachings and wise as a serpentMatt 10:16 ¶Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. It is self-condemnationAs Written:self condemnation & it has betrayed itself. I hold no feeling for I do not even know who has wronged me. I mentioned Mrs Lathrop because I spoke to her in regard to the books and was very decided when she referred to Mrs Stewart & Mrs Meader as good christian women and that it was no matter whether one was a baptist or a Methodist so long as the end they sought was the same I knew the element, having had a combat with Mrs Diaz & if Mrs Lathrop could be deceived As Written: decieved by them I could not She has never called tho' I have always tried to think it was because she was so busy. I do not care now & I do not say she even was vexed, but thought she might stay away on that account. I have been to see her often as I could & will go again
| Accession: | 092A.19.010 |
| Editorial Title: | Augusta E. Stetson to Mary Baker Eddy, January 4, 1887 |
| Author: | Augusta E. Stetson |
| Recipient: | Mary Baker Eddy |
| Date: | January 4, 1887 |
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Your letterEditorial Note: See V00985. recdExpanded:received and I should have written before but I have hardly felt able to do so the shock was so great. I have looked over all that has happened since I came here & I can see nothing out of which to make such a lie. I have been true to the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science & your teachings and wise as a serpentMatt 10:16 ¶Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. It is self condemnationCorrected:self-condemnation & it has betrayed itself. I hold no feeling for I do not even know who has [?] Unclear or illegible wronged me. I mentioned Mrs Lathrop because I spoke to her in regard to the books and was very decided when she referred to Mrs Stewart & Mrs Meader as good christian women and that it was no matter whether one was a baptist or a Methodist so long as the end they sought was the same I knew the element, having had a combat with Mrs Diaz & if Mrs Lathrop could be decieved Corrected: deceived by them I could not She has never called tho' I have always tried to think it was because she was so busy. I do not care now & I do not say she even was vexed, but thought she might stay away on that account. I have been to see her often as I could & will go again