Accession: 205B.34.042
Editorial Title: Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy to Mary Baker Eddy, June 27, 1897
Author: Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: June 27, 1897
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy on varied stationery from La Crosse, Wisconsin. Includes envelope.
Archival Note: The envelope of this letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy. This document contains illegible erasures. See original. Also, a rectangle has been cut out of the top of the pages. This may have contained the address, "La Crosse, Wis." It can be made out on image 5 and matches the postmark.
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dearest and most blessed Mother.

Your letter of May 28thEditorial Note: See L02005. came in due time. Surely what more can the people want or need than the new book and Science and Health with Key to the ScripturesEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. In the latter there is the height and depth, the length and breadthEph 3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; of Christian Science wherein the sage, the philosopher, the scientist may delve throughout the endless ages. In the former all, both great and small, the sycophant and the experienced can disport As Written: desport themselves in its clear sparkling rays, see unmistakably the so plainly wrought way and advance thereinAs Written:there in toward the kingdom of harmony, peace, and glory. And it is so good to know that you by the Eternal Infinite have been chosen the designer, the architect, the builder, the workman. The work has been and will continue to be a perfect success because its chief corner stoneEph 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; is Truth and the superstructure is divine Love and "is not made with hands - Eternal and in the heavensII Cor 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ", and the people of the ages will call you blessedProv 31:28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. . Now dearest One you have more than earned your rest and I beseech you for your own dear sake do take it. Do not let the students hang on to you like a pack of wolves for I can see that it is purely selfishness on their part and they have some "axe to grind" that they may chop someoneAs Written:some one's else head off. One is impelled to cry out at times: Oh Christian Science! what atrocities As Written: attrocities are committed in thy name!! But you have taught the Truth and the Mother Love will care for its own so we will wait patientlyAs Written:patienlly, lovingly on Her. Do try and have one summer to yourselfAs Written:your self. Hang out a red flag and forbid everyoneAs Written:every one to come near. In reply to your question of malpractice I will say that I have felt much more than " seen the bad effects of treating mentally and uncalled for other people". I had to struggle hard and long against it but I have in a large measure mastered it so that it cannot be made to seem real to me. Mrs. Munroe and a few others continue to send out their venom but it can only fall on their own heads. After she wrote you and me that she had never said or done anything against me; and after I last saw you, a lady told me she had a letter written and signed by Mrs. Munroe wherein she said "Dr. Eddy would say his Mother sent him to PhiladelphiaEditorial Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but it was not true and she must not believe a word I said" et ceteraAs Written:&c et ceteraAs Written:&c Bad reports have come into the West from her since I came here. But none of these things shall moveActs 20:24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. I will abide in LoveJohn 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. and no man can separate me from HimRom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. . I do not see how those that profess to be Christian Scientists dare do such things for the law is unalterable that "as they sow so shall they reapGal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. . I am glad that MassachusettsAs Written:Mass. is making laws to legally punish such mental diabolism and I hope every other state will follow its action. But after all Gods laws are more certain in their effects so we can wait on Him. He will mete As Written: meat out justice to all. My brother and wifeEditorial Note: Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy had two brothers and one half brother to whom this reference could apply. His older brother Luther O. Foster (1841-1913) was born in Moretown, Vermont, and died in Roberts, Wisconsin. He married Lucy B. Foster (b. Haskins) in Moretown in 1864. He was a farmer and livestock dealer in St. Croix County, Wisconsin. His younger brother Luke W. Foster (1850-1903) was born in Moretown, Vermont, and died in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. In 1876 he married Alice M. Foster (b. Fuller) in Lone Rock, Wisconsin. He was a dry goods and shoe merchant in La Crosse, Wisconsin. His half brother Arthur M. Foster (1863-1927) was born in Moretown, Vermont, and died in Storm Lake, Iowa. He married Matilda E. "Ellen" Foster (b. Fuller), the sister of Alice M. Foster (b. Fuller), in Lone Rock, Wisconsin, in 1883. He was a merchant in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and a postmaster in Storm Lake, Iowa. a going to take their vacation in traveling and visiting friends and various places of interest in the far WestAs Written:Wes. They are going to take me with them. We start next Tuesday and shall return sometime in August. If you could be with us my happiness would be complete. But Dearest One be of good cheer and when you drop your work of drudgery for others then we will go on a beautiful trip.

Will you please ask Mr. Frye if he will please go to the drawer in my room closet get a german book for beginners and send to me here with thanks.

With kindest regards to the household As Written: househould and lots and lots of love to Mama
from
Benny.

P. S. We shall not be in any one place any length of time. The longest about a week with old friends at the Glenwood Tavern As Written: Tarvern at Riverside CaliforniaAs Written:Calif. We have no specific dates for any place. The next longest place of stopping will probably be YellowstoneAs Written:Yellow Stone Park.

E.


LA CROSSE WIS.
JUN 27 1897

Handshift:Mary Baker EddyDr. Foster
Tattling and pleasure seeking June 1897.
205B.34.042
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dearest and most blessed Mother.

Your letter of the May 28thEditorial Note: See L02005. came in due time. Surely what more can the people want or need than the new book and Science and Health with Key to the ScripturesEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. In the latter there is the height and depth, the length and breadthEph 3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; of Christian Science wherein the sage, the philosopher, the scientist may delve throughout the endless ages. In the former all, both great and small, the sycophant and the experienced can desport Corrected: disport themselves in its clear sparkling rays, see unmistakably the so plainly wrought way and advance there inCorrected:therein toward the kingdom of harmony, peace, and glory. And it is so good to know that you by the Eternal Infinite have been chosen the designer, the architect, the builder, the workman. The work has been and will continue to be a perfect success because its chief corner stoneEph 2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; is Truth and the superstructure is divine Love and "is not made with hands - Eternal and in the heavensII Cor 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ", and the people of the ages will call you blessedProv 31:28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. . Now dearest One you have more than earned your rest and I bes [?] Unclear or illegible eech you for your own dear sake do take it. Do not let the students hang on to you like a pack of wolves for I can see that it is purely selfishness on their part and they have some "axe to grind" that they may chop some one'sCorrected:someone else head off. One is impelled to cry out at times: Oh Christian Science! what attrocities Corrected: atrocities are committed in thy name!! But you have taught the Truth and the Mother Love will care for its own so we will wait patienllyCorrected:patiently, lovingly on Her. Do try and have one summer to your selfCorrected:yourself. Hang out a red flag and forbid every oneCorrected:everyone to come near. In reply to your question of malpractice I will say that I have felt much more than " seen the bad effects of treating mentally and uncalled for other people". I had to struggle hard and long against it but I have in a large measure mastered it so that it cannot be made to seem real to me. Mrs. Munroe and a few others contin [?] Unclear or illegible ue to send out their venom but it can only fall on their own heads. After she wrote you and me that she had never said or done anything against me; and after I last saw you, a lady told me she had a letter written and signed by Mrs. Munroe wherein she said "Dr. Eddy would say his Mother sent him to PhiladelphiaEditorial Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but it was not true and she must not believe a word I said" &cExpanded:et cetera &cExpanded:et cetera Bad reports have come into the West from her since I came here. But none of these things shall moveActs 20:24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. I will abide in LoveJohn 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. and no man can separate me from HimRom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. . I do not see how those that profess to be Christian Scientists dare do such things for the law is unalterable that "as they sow so shall they reapGal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. . I am glad that Mass.Expanded:Massachusetts is making laws to legally punish such mental diabolism and I hope every other state will follow its action. But after all Gods laws are more certain in its their effects so we can wait on Him. He will meat Corrected: mete out justice to all. My brother and wifeEditorial Note: Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy had two brothers and one half brother to whom this reference could apply. His older brother Luther O. Foster (1841-1913) was born in Moretown, Vermont, and died in Roberts, Wisconsin. He married Lucy B. Foster (b. Haskins) in Moretown in 1864. He was a farmer and livestock dealer in St. Croix County, Wisconsin. His younger brother Luke W. Foster (1850-1903) was born in Moretown, Vermont, and died in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. In 1876 he married Alice M. Foster (b. Fuller) in Lone Rock, Wisconsin. He was a dry goods and shoe merchant in La Crosse, Wisconsin. His half brother Arthur M. Foster (1863-1927) was born in Moretown, Vermont, and died in Storm Lake, Iowa. He married Matilda E. "Ellen" Foster (b. Fuller), the sister of Alice M. Foster (b. Fuller), in Lone Rock, Wisconsin, in 1883. He was a merchant in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and a postmaster in Storm Lake, Iowa. a going to take their vacation in traveling and visiting friends and various places of interest in the far WesCorrected:West. They are going to take me with them. We start next Tuesday and shall return sometime in August. If you could be with us my happiness would be complete. But Dearest One be of good cheer and when you drop your work of drudgery for others then we will go on a beautiful trip.

Will you please ask Mr. Frye if he will please go to the drawer in my room clo [?] Unclear or illegible set get a german book for beginners and send to me here with thanks.

With kindest regards to the househould Corrected: household and lots and lots of love to Mama
from
Benny.

P. S. We shall not be in any one place any length of time. The longest about a week with old friends at the Glenwood Tarvern Corrected: Tavern at Riverside CalifExpanded:California. We have no specific dates for any place. The next longest place of stopping will probably be Yellow StoneCorrected:Yellowstone Park.

E.


LA CROSSE WIS.
JUN 27 1897

Handshift:Mary Baker EddyDr. Foster
Tattling and pleasure seeking June 1897.
 
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See L02005. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy had two brothers and one half brother to whom this reference could apply. His older brother Luther O. Foster (1841-1913) was born in Moretown, Vermont, and died in Roberts, Wisconsin. He married Lucy B. Foster (b. Haskins) in Moretown in 1864. He was a farmer and livestock dealer in St. Croix County, Wisconsin. His younger brother Luke W. Foster (1850-1903) was born in Moretown, Vermont, and died in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. In 1876 he married Alice M. Foster (b. Fuller) in Lone Rock, Wisconsin. He was a dry goods and shoe merchant in La Crosse, Wisconsin. His half brother Arthur M. Foster (1863-1927) was born in Moretown, Vermont, and died in Storm Lake, Iowa. He married Matilda E. "Ellen" Foster (b. Fuller), the sister of Alice M. Foster (b. Fuller), in Lone Rock, Wisconsin, in 1883. He was a merchant in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and a postmaster in Storm Lake, Iowa. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania