Accession: 277.41.012
Editorial Title: Jennie B. Fenn to Mary Baker Eddy, July 27, 1886
Author: Jennie B. Fenn 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: July 27, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Jennie B. Fenn on her printed stationery from Omaha, Nebraska.
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My dear Mrs Eddy-

In replying to yours Just receivedEditorial Note: This letter is not extant.- will say with pleasure that Mr & Mrs Hight are all right. good honest trustworthy peopleAs Written:peopal. Mrs Hight was one of Mrs Colman's students and I hear she is doing very nicely in two or three of the smaller towns not far from Council BluffsEditorial Note: Council Bluffs, Iowa.

There are others who wish to go to you and I feel that they should. There is a Mrs Porterfield that I think will want to go in your next class- she is all right and one that I would like to see pushed forward. The interest is growing all the time- You would be surprised I know could you be here, and hear all the testimony of the different As Written: differant ones. When I look back over the past, one short year, & scarcely a half, since I first came out from your divine teachings I look on with wonderment at this great work that is progressing all the time. Isn't As Written: Isnt it glorious. [I can't As Written: cant find any word but ___ to express it] is to walk and talk with God," almost as Enoch didGen 5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: Gen 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. Gen 5:25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat
Lamech:
Gen 5:26 And Methuselah lived after he begat
Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
Gen 5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. Gen 5:28 ¶And
Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
Gen 5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed. Gen 5:30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: Gen 5:31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. Gen 5:32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Gen 5:33 Gen 5:34 Heb 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
. I feel so strong in the Truth, and like Paul, glory only in Him."I Cor 1:31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

Will it not be glorious when all are brought into this "Holy Mountain of the Lord" where nothing can hurt or destroyIsa 11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. . "And all is peace Joy and Holiness."Rom 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

You will please let us know when your next class opens.

With kind love from myselfAs Written:my self and husband

I amAs Written:Iam truly your student
Mrs E. B. Fenn

Sister I know would send love did she know that I amAs Written:Iam writing- she has a belief of feeling a little discouraged on account of not getting enough As Written: enoug to do, she is living in Kansas, City- MissouriAs Written:Mo. where all are strangers to scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science

F.

277.41.012
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dear Mrs Eddy-

In replying to yours Just receivedEditorial Note: This letter is not extant.- wi [?] Unclear or illegible ll say with pleasure that Mr & Mrs Hight are all right. good honest trustworthy peopalCorrected:people. Mrs Hight was one of Mrs Colman's students and I hear she is doing very nicely in two or three of the smaller towns not far from Council BluffsEditorial Note: Council Bluffs, Iowa.

There are others who wish to go to you and I feel that they should. There is a Mrs Porterfield that I think will want to go in your next class- she is all right and one that I would like to see pushed forward. The interest is growing all the time- You would be surprised I know could you be here, and hear all the testimony of the differant Corrected: different ones. When I look back over the past, one short year, & scarcely a half, since I first came out from your divine teachings I look on with wonderment at this great work that is progressing all the time. Isnt Corrected: Isn't ist glorious. [I cant Corrected: can't find any word but ___ to experess it] is to walk and talk with God," almost as Enoch didGen 5:23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: Gen 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. Gen 5:25 And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat
Lamech:
Gen 5:26 And Methuselah lived after he begat
Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
Gen 5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. Gen 5:28 ¶And
Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:
Gen 5:29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed. Gen 5:30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters: Gen 5:31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died. Gen 5:32 And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Gen 5:33 Gen 5:34 Heb 11:5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
. I feel so strong in the Truth, and like Paul, glory only in Him."I Cor 1:31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

Will it not be glorious when all are brought into this "Holy Mountain of the Lord" where nothing can hurt or destroyIsa 11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. . "And all is peace Joy and Holiness."Rom 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

You will please let us know when your next class opens.

With kind love from my selfCorrected:myself and husband

IamCorrected:I am truly your student
Mrs E. B. Fenn

Sister I know would send love did she know that IamCorrected:I am writing- she has a belief of feeling a little discouraged on account of not getting enoug Corrected: enough to do, she is living in Kansas, City- Mo.Expanded:Missouri where all are strangers to scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science

F.

 
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