Accession: 134.23.002
Editorial Title: Edmund Russell Hardy to Mary Baker Eddy, December 22, 1886
Author: Edmund Russell Hardy 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: December 22, 1886
Manuscript Description: Typewritten with handwritten signature by Edmund Russell Hardy on unlined paper from Troy, New York.
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I feel that I owe to you this my earliest moment in which to make known my appreciation of the Truth of your teaching, as set forth in Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, when understood. My experience in this direction has served a very bitter experience to me, in that now seeing As Written: seing the eternal Science of your teaching, I see that the past three and a half years of searching for truth elsewhere; i.e. Arens, Evans, et alAs Written:etal. is even more than so much time lost for I can never redeem the timeEph 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Eph 5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Eph 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. in which I should have been able to have led hundreds or with God's As Written: Gods blessing, thousands, to see the MANIFESTATION of the mysteries of a Life hid with Christ in GodCol 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. . even as I am now able to SEEAs Written:toSEE them after a course of lessons with your pupil, Mrs. A. V. C. Leavitt.

I will only add that while I was for three years able to heal and did heal very many severe cases, yet I thank God that the Spirit now reveals all these Man-made theories, as the subtle philosophies As Written: philosiphies of erring mortal-mind, and not the ineffableAs Written:inefable Grace of God in hidden mystery, such as cannot be even thought of by these teachers and writers.

134.23.002
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

I feel that I owe to you this my earliest moment in which to make known my appreciation of the Truth of your teaching, as set forth in Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, when understood. My experience in this direction has served a very bitter experience to me, in that now seing Corrected: seeing the eternal Science of your teaching, I see that the past three and a half years of searching for truth elsewhere; i.e. Arens, Evans, etalExpanded:et al. is even more than so much time lost for I can never redeem the timeEph 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Eph 5:15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Eph 5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. in which I should have been able to have led hundredse or with Gods Corrected: God's blessing, thousands, to see the MANIFESTATION of the mysteries of a Life hid with Christ in GodCol 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. . even as I am now able toSEEExpanded:to SEE them after our a course of lessons with your pupil, Mrs. A. V. C. Leavitt.

I will only add that while I was for three years able to heal and did heal very many severe cases, yet I thank God that the Spirit now reveals all these Man-made theories, as the subtle philosiphies Corrected: philosophies of erring mortal-mind, and not the inefableCorrected:ineffable Grace of God in hidden mystery, such as cannot be even thought of by these teachers and writers.

 
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