Accession: 183.31.010
Editorial Title: Sue Ella Bradshaw to Mary Baker Eddy, July 8, 1886
Author: Sue Ella Bradshaw 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: July 8, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Sue Ella Bradshaw on lined paper from San Jose, California.
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My Dear Teacher,

I got a starter today in the shape of that superfluous puffing of the White Cross Hall and its teachers by the "Woman'sAs Written:Womans World" which has raised my righteous indignation to a degree I trust will result in action of some kind.

I have wanted quiet work and have avoided publicity as much as possible,–am wholly satisfied on that line now. More is required and I do not want to shirk the service required. Only right service is freedom. I wrote an article for our paper a short time ago, thinking to create a little more interest but the editor did not see fit to publish it. They are generally ready to publish any thing ludicrous about Mind-cure and I was foolish enough to believe they would appreciate something As Written: some thing that was right. That is all right I will yet secure the proper interest in Christian ScienceAs Written:C. S. if I have to start out on a lecturing tour. It is a shame for ScientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists to be less active than the workers of evil. If we would be as wise as the serpentsMatt 10:16 ¶Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. we must use as wise methods.

It is as Lowell says "Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed Confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued And cries reproachful; "Was it, then my praise And not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of [thy youth; Give me thy life or cower in empty phrase, The victim of thy genius not its mate."Editorial Note: These lines are from a poem by James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) titled “Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865.” [For: These lines are from a poem by James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) titled “Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865.”

I know the ways are open for me if I can only see and make use of them. O! to keep out of the morphine of belief and to awaken others is my daily cry. But I find all things that I am prepared for come to me tho' the needs are still great.

The Institute is still a "concern on my mind" and I wrote to Mr Sawyer making inquiries as to what requirements they had to comply with in forming a corporation or obtaining a charter, thinking the laws might be different here He did not answer my questions for some reason tho' he replied saying he had special directions from you for assisting students in obtaining charters, a nd how t o have them made giving the right idea of C. S. and to send to him if I concluded to establish an I– and he would have the papers made out there. So I am in a worse dilemma than I was before. I should have written to you at once for an explanation to my comprehension of what your request meant, but I thought to avoid troubling you with my numerous questions if possible. I wrote you in my lastEditorial Note: See 183.31.009 the difficulties which presented themselvesAs Written:them selves, but of course there is a way out, and if you can tell me what I am to do, I will most gladly work to my utmost to bring it about. I do not wish to be in bondage to ignorance.

Yours waitingly
Sue Ella Bradshaw
183.31.010
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My Dear Teacher,

I got a starter today in the shape of that superfluous puffing of the White Cross Hall and its teachers by the "WomansCorrected:Woman's World" which has raised my righteous indignation to a degree I trust will result in action of some kind.

I have wanted quiet work and have avoided publicity as much as possible,–am wholly satisfied on that line now. More is required and I do not want to shirk the service required. Only right service is freedom. I wrote an article for our paper a short time ago, thinking to create a little more interest but the editor did not see fit to publish it. They are generally ready to publish any thinkg ludicrous about Mind-cure and I was foo [?] Unclear or illegible lish enough to believe they would appreciate some thing Corrected: something that was right. That is all right I will yet secure the proper interest in C. S.Expanded:Christian Science if I have to start out on a lecturing tour. It is a shame for ScientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists to be less active than the workers of evil. If we would be as wise as s the serpentsMatt 10:16 ¶Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. we must use as wise methods.

It is as Lowell says "Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed Confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued; And cries reproachful; "Was it, then my praise And not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of [thy youth; Give me thy life or cower in empyty phrase, The victim of thy genious not its mate."Editorial Note: These lines are from a poem by James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) titled “Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865.” [For: These lines are from a poem by James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) titled “Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865.”

I know the ways are open for me if I can only see and make use of them. O! to keep out of the morphine of belief and to awaken others is my daily cry. But I find all things that I am prepared for come to me tho' the needs are still great.

The Institute is still a "concern on my mind" and I wrote to Mr Sawyer making inquiries as to what requirements they had to comply with in forming a corporation or obtaining a charter, thinking the laws might be different here He did not answer my questions for some reason tho' he replied saying he had special directions from you for assisting students in obtaining charters, as nd how th o have them made giving the right idea of C. S. and to send to him if I concluded to establish an I– and he would have the papers made out there. So I am in a worse dilemma than I was before. I should have written to you at once for an explanation to my comprehension of what your request meant, but I thought to avoid troubling you with my numerous questions if possible. I wirote you in my lastEditorial Note: See 183.31.009 the difficulties which presented them selvesCorrected:themselves, but of course there is a way out, and if you can tell me what I am to do, I will most gladly work to my utmost to bring it about. I do not wish to be in bondage to ignorance.

Yours waitingly
Sue Ella Bradshaw
 
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San Jose, California Christian Scientists These lines are from a poem by James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) titled “Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865.” [For: These lines are from a poem by James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) titled “Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865.” See 183.31.009