The first paragraph on page 153 of your Misc. Writ. has been very precious to me, To-day it comes to me as applying to you, In the present "storm and tempest" of error you are "safely sheltered in the strong Tower of hope, faith, and Love". you are God's nestling, and "He will hide you in His feathers till the storm has passed". "no element of earth" can hinder you from finishing your work with joy.
In childhood I was much interested in the history of the old covenanters; how they were so many times hidden from their persecutors by the thick mist, which was often called "the mantle of the Lord". If they, looking to God in blind faith and believing evil had power, were so protected, how much more should we be assured of God's protection for you, whose teachings and practice have proved that evil has no power and that there is but one mind, one Law, and that one the Infinite Good. "when the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him". dear Leader, because thou hast drawn out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfied "the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day: and the Lord shall guide thee continually".
Beloved Leader:— The first paragraph on page 153Mary Baker Eddy, Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896152:30Exercise more faith in God and His spiritual means153:1and methods, than in man and his material ways and
means, of establishing the Cause of Christian Science.
153:3If right yourself, God will confirm His inheritance. “Be
not weary in well doing.” Truth is restful, and Love is
triumphant. of your "Miscellaneous WritingsEditorial Note: Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy" has been very precious to me. Today As Written: To-day it comes to me as applying to you. In the present "storm and tempest" of error you are "safely sheltered in the strong TowerProv 18:10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. of hope, faith, and LoveI Cor 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. ." You are God's nestling, and "He will hide you in His feathers till the storm has passedPs 57:1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. ." "No element of earth" can hinder you from finishing your work with joy.
In childhood I was much interested in the history of the old Covenanters; how they were so many times hidden from their persecutors by the thick mist, which was often called "the mantle of the Lord."Editorial Note: The Covenanters were a Scottish religious and political movement in seventeenth century England. They fought to preserve the Presbyterian Church of Scotland and rejected royal control over the church, proclaiming Jesus Christ to be the head of the church and not the monarch. The Covenanters faced brutal persecution for their beliefs and were said to have been protected by a mist or fog which they called "the mantle of the Lord" and which enabled them to escape their persecutors. If they, looking to God in blind faith and believing evil had power, were so protected, how much more should we be assured of God's protection for you, whose teachings and practice have proved that evil has no power and that there is but one Mind, one law, and that one the Infinite good. "When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against himIsa 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. ." Dear Leader, because thou hast drawn out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfied "the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day. and the Lord shall guide thee continuallyIsa 58:10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day: Isa 58:11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. ." [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. ⇉ Handshift:unknownIs: 58Isa 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Isa 58:2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God. Isa 58:3 ¶Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Isa 58:4 Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Isa 58:5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord? Isa 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Isa 58:7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Isa 58:8 ¶Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward. Isa 58:9 Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; Isa 58:10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day: Isa 58:11 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. Isa 58:12 And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. Isa 58:13 ¶If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Isa 58:14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. [*]Archival Note: End floating text. Lovingly,
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