Accession: 349A.47.006
Editorial Title: James Henry Wiggin to Mary Baker Eddy, April 5, 1886
Author: James Henry Wiggin 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: April 5, 1886 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by James Henry Wiggin on unlined paper.
Archival Note: The date of this letter is an archivist estimate.
Editorial Note: This letter is apparently a response to Mary Baker Eddy’s questions and criticisms regarding some of the contents of the April 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal, sent to James Henry Wiggin as editor of the Journal.
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349A.47.006
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Dear Mrs. Eddy.

YourAs Written:Yr notesEditorial Note: These notes are not extant. on the JournalEditorial Note: This is a reference to the April 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal. duly considered.

1. Mr. H. P. Smith's art.Editorial Note: This is a reference to an article by Hanover P. Smith (H. P. S.) on page 5 of the April 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal. Titled “Atonement for Sin and Sickness,” it is a review of a book by Russell Kelso Carter (1849-1928), titled The Atonement for Sin and Sickness, or, A Full Salvation for Soul and Body. Carter, an American, was a prolific writer in a number of areas, both religious and secular. He was an advocate of faith healing, British Israelism, Christian Identity theology, and Serpent Seed theology. he wrote of his own motion perhaps. I have not seen the book he refers toEditorial Note: Russell Kelso Carter, The Atonement for Sin and Sickness, or, A Full Salvation for Soul and Body , except in his hands, & I thought perhaps you had wished him to do it, though he did not say so.

2. I do not know the Author of Systematic Study, p.6, or I shouldAs Written:shd have put a name above it.

3. Pp. 10 & 11. Questions, et ceteraAs Written:&c. The extract separates yourAs Written:yr 1st two answers, simply because there is only room for the question at the bottom of p. 10, & the question ought to not be separated from its answer. I might have avoided the difficulty by changing the order of the questions, but I put them in the order in which they came from you, which I did not feel at liberty to change.

— There is a line between your questions & mine, but it might have been heavier. I will hereafter omit J. H. W.'s, as they are only added to fill out a page, & answer somebody's question, whichAs Written:wch is perhaps unimportant.

— I was not aware that I had in any way changed the point of yourAs Written:yr own replies- Certainly I had not meant to do so.

4. P. 16. That mistake of Lam. for Sam. is very funny.

5. P. 19. It wouldAs Written:wd be better for you to mark out the passages in letters whichAs Written:wch you do not wish used.

The words extract et ceteraAs Written:&c couldAs Written:cd be easily added; but I cannot always tell whether the letter is to Mrs. Eddy or somebody else; unless that is implied by the word Teacher in the beginning. If you have read a letter, & left a passage, apparently to be printed, I have not felt at liberty to change it.

6. P. 26. Properly speaking the matter on this page belongs in the middle of the number, & was ready for that place; but through a mistake of the printer in reckoning one too As Written: to many advertising pages, we planned accordingly; but at the last gunfire on Wed. night he discovered his error in counting, & I had to find a page to make p. 26. If the covers had not been printed – with the table of contents – I shouldAs Written:shd have made him renumber the pages & put this page where it properly belonged, but I couldAs Written:cd not ask for so great an expense as a sacrifice of the covers. The reading on p. 26 is good, wherever it comes.

YoursAs Written:Yrs truly
J. H. W.
349A.47.006
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Dear Mrs. Eddy.

YrExpanded:Your notesEditorial Note: These notes are not extant. on the JournalEditorial Note: This is a reference to the April 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal. duly considered.

1. Mr. H. P. Smith's art.Editorial Note: This is a reference to an article by Hanover P. Smith (H. P. S.) on page 5 of the April 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal. Titled “Atonement for Sin and Sickness,” it is a review of a book by Russell Kelso Carter (1849-1928), titled The Atonement for Sin and Sickness, or, A Full Salvation for Soul and Body. Carter, an American, was a prolific writer in a number of areas, both religious and secular. He was an advocate of faith healing, British Israelism, Christian Identity theology, and Serpent Seed theology. he wrote of his own motion perhaps. I have not seen the book he refers toEditorial Note: Russell Kelso Carter, The Atonement for Sin and Sickness, or, A Full Salvation for Soul and Body , except in his hands, & I thought perhaps you had wished him to do it, though he did not say so.

2. I do not know the Author of Systematic Study, p.6, or I shdExpanded:should have put a name above it.

3. Pp. 10 & 11. Questions, &cExpanded:et cetera. The extract separates yrExpanded:your 1st two answers, simply because there is only room for the question at the bottom of p. 10, & the question ought to not be separated from its answer. I might have avoided the difficulty by changing the order of the questions, but I put them in the order in which they came from you, which I did not feel at liberty to change.

— There is a line between y [?] Unclear or illegible our questions & mine, but it might have been heavier. I will hereafter omit J. H. W.'s, as they are only added to fill out a page, & answer somebody's question, wchExpanded:which is perhaps unimportant.

— I was not aware that I had in any way changed the point of yrExpanded:your own replies- Certainly I had not meant to do so.

4. P. 16. That mistake of Lam. for Sam. is very funny.

5. P. 19. It wdExpanded:would be better for you to mark out the passages in letters wchExpanded:which you do not wish used.

The words extract &cExpanded:et cetera cdExpanded:could be easily added; but I cannot always tell whether the letter is to Mrs. Eddy or somebody else; unless that is implied by the word Teacher in the beginning. If you have read a letter, & left a passage, apparently to be printed, I have not felt at liberty to change it.

6. P. 26. Properly speaking the matter on this page belongs in the middle of the number, & was ready for that place; but through a mistake of the printer in reckoning one to Corrected: too many advertising pages, we planned accordingly; but at the last gunfire on Wed. night he discovered his error in counting, & I had to find a page to make p. 26. If the covers had not been printed – with the table of contents – I shdExpanded:should have made him renumber the pages & put this page where it properly belonged, but I cdExpanded:could not ask for so great an expense as a sacrifice of the covers. The reading on p. 26 is good, wherever it comes.

YrsExpanded:Yours truly
J. H. W.
 
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These notes are not extant. This is a reference to the April 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal. This is a reference to an article by Hanover P. Smith (H. P. S.) on page 5 of the April 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal. Titled “Atonement for Sin and Sickness,” it is a review of a book by Russell Kelso Carter (1849-1928), titled The Atonement for Sin and Sickness, or, A Full Salvation for Soul and Body. Carter, an American, was a prolific writer in a number of areas, both religious and secular. He was an advocate of faith healing, British Israelism, Christian Identity theology, and Serpent Seed theology. Russell Kelso Carter, The Atonement for Sin and Sickness, or, A Full Salvation for Soul and Body