Accession: 343.47.008
Editorial Title: Mary Hinds Philbrick to Mary Baker Eddy, 1886
Author: Mary Hinds Philbrick 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Hinds Philbrick on unlined printed stationery of the Julien House from Dubuque, Iowa.
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Confidential
My Dearly Loved Teacher

I will have to ask pardon for writing so soon, My great love for you & scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science is the only excuse – I can't As Written: cant find words to tell you how you & science are– loved and revered by a large class of the better class – Ladies As Written: Ladis of the first society - church people Episcopal – CongregationalAs Written:congPresbyterianAs Written:PresCatholic and Infidels — all surprise me with their words of cheer & love – , –They read all they can get that you write – and copy with pen & ink from one to the other – so each will have - "why this must have been a revelation" to Mrs Eddy certainly I reply — I shall send quite a number for you to teach — they all want to go – and such. beautiful lovely characters – a dear catholic patient says", O I love every word she writes they are so pure "– It is easy to heal people - who are "hungering & thirsting" for TruthMatt 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. and will as readily taught – I wrote to my dear friend & Bro W. the words you said – enclosed is his reply to me – he has so longed to meet & be taught by the Teacher as I tell him – and as he knows - I have despaired of bringing him to you for he is a proud English man – I mean proud in regard to receiving anythingAs Written:any thing withoutAs Written:with out pay - he said at first he never could accept it but is now willing to do so — I feel there is a prominent place for him in the work of placing this truth before the world – – I know you will chide me when I say the reason I am a failure in money matters is because it is hard for me to mix this work of love with money – I can't As Written: cant overcomeAs Written:over come the feeling – my best work has been when I thought nothing of pay know / nothing of the symptoms As Written: synptons of the disease – used no argument but was absent from the bodyII Cor 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. - and — all material – & present As Written: presnt with the Lord —and take my patient there too — Then he is "every whit whole" John 7:23 If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? and then ask pay — Now you know my weakness

With great love
.M H. Philbrick
343.47.008
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Confidential
My Dearly Loved Teacher

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w With great love
.M H. Philbrick
 
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