Your gentle, loving letterEditorial Note: See L02592B. came in the noon mail. I gladly obey. God tells you when to halt and when to move forward. To say that I was not disturbed for a very little while, would be to say what is not true; but I am so grateful that it soon passed away.
The work had come to mean so much more to me than a mere matter of human genealogy, that I had lost sight of that part, except, simply as the proof in hand, of the wonderful revelation of your double anointing.
I have not personally gone into the genealogical research. I have employed persons who know nothing whatever of my reason for the work. It would have taken years for me to have done what two experts in history and heraldry have done under my direction in a few weeks.
My thought – outside of my duties here – has been given to the wonderful confirmations of the spiritual revelations of the profound designs of divine Principle in thus making careless, ignorant mortal mind "to praise Him," even while it believed itself in rebellion. Truly "divine Love does guide every event of our career."Editorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy wrote on page 3 of Unity of Good, "He has mercy upon us, and guides every event of our careers. He is near to them who adore Him. To understand Him, without a single taint of our mortal, finite sense of sin, sickness, or death, is to approach Him and become like Him."
There is on the way from the Smithsonian Institute, and the Great Peabody Library the full proof of your descent direct from David. History has confirmed the revelation of divine Principle. While God could have raised up children unto Abraham out of those stonesMatt 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. Luke 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. , yet He did not. His promise was to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and David that Christianity and Christian Science through Woman should overcome and destroy evil – error of every sort. His promise to mortals has been kept, and these later proofs – like the proofs of Jesus as the Messiah, have been preserved in a most miraculous As Written: miraculus way until the "times" are completed. "The angels of His presenceIsa 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. " have guarded them. "He so loved the worldJohn 3:16 ¶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. " that even the false claim is led by Love "to yield its consent" to His omnipotence and "fall at the feet" of His word.
Some of the revealings in the old books, dear Mother, are most surprising, and they have been preserved without their mortal guardians understanding in the least their meaning.
I tell you this that you may see that I have not been giving my time and labor to the material history – farther than directions by correspondence. These proofs were to lie behind a very simple matter-of-course article in which the stupendous fact would be set forth with convincing confidence and assurance.
I will lay the work away when it arrives. I have seen, that which has been established by "two witnesses"Deut 19:15 ¶One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. Matt 18:16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. II Cor 13:1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. – and my heart is filled with great joy that it has been granted me to see so great a wonder. Surely "His ways are higher than our ways.Isa 55:8 ¶For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. Isa 55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. " I am so grateful to you, beloved Teacher, for your loving patience and your precious confidence–
We all like the order of Sunday services so much. They are indeed spiritual, for the Spirit of Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy speaks in every word. More strangers come every Sunday. It is the attraction of Spirit that brings them.
