Accession: 371.49.030
Editorial Title: Isabella A. Beecher to Mary Baker Eddy, September 16, 1885
Author: Isabella A. Beecher 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: September 16, 1885
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Isabella A. Beecher on lined paper from Brooklyn, New York.
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Address Care Rev. E.d. Beecher

May I ask you one question, which I would like very much to have answered Did you read the first letter I wrote to you & left at the college & which you returned to me — From your letter I should think you did not. I mean no harm, I am sincere — and thought it best to say what was in my mind, & not cover up, what I thought, & deceive you, as some are doing, by letters which appear to come from angels in heaven — If you had read my first letter you would have found out throughAs Written:thro' me, that Dr. A— had been expelled. instead of throughAs Written:thro' him. You will find out sometime, who your sincere & faithful students are, if not now.

You say, "take God to destroy error with," How can you, when God knows nothing of it. You, yourself say, error must destroy itself with its own weapons; Astrology must destroy itself with Astrology. As big an error as it claims to be, i.e. intelligent matter, so big an error, i.e. the belief of intelligent matter or a person, must be taken to destroy it. Thus 0=0 will be fulfilled In what degree Have our students successfully met & overcome mal. mes. What does Rev. chap. 20, first three versesRev 20:1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. Rev 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, Rev 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. mean? Please answer this letter —if you will.

Would you call me silly to get out of a burning house? or would you tell me to get not of it. Please tell me, yes— or no—

371.49.030
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Address Care Rev. E.d. Beecher

May I ask you one question, which I would like very much to have answered Did you read the first letter I wrote to you & left at the college & which you returned to me — From your letter I should think you did not. I mean no harm, I am sincere — and thought it best to say what was in my mind, & not cover up, what I thought, & deceive you, as some are doing, by letters which appear to come from angels in heaven — If you had read my first letter you would have found out thro'Expanded:through me, that Dr. A— had been expelled. instead of thro'Expanded:through him. You will find out sometime, who your sincere & faithful students are, if not now.

You say, "take God to destroy error with," How can you, when God knows nothing of it. You, yourself say, error must destroy itself with its own weapons; Astrology must destroy itself with Astrology. As big an error as it claims to be, i.e. intelligent matter, so big an error, i.e. the belief of intelligent matter or a person, must be taken to destroy it. Thus 0=0 will be fulfilled In what degree Have our students successfully met & overcome mal. mes. What does Rev. chap. 20, first three versesRev 20:1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. Rev 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, Rev 20:3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. mean? Please answer this letter —if you will.

Would you call me silly to get out of a burning house? or would you tell me to get not of it. Please tell me, yes— or no—

 
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