Let us go back to the old days when we called you Mrs Glover. There, now I can feel your arms about me as they used to be in the springtime long ago when we used to hunt the anemone and you told me of the beautiful May flowers of your native StateEditorial Note: New Hampshire. What a beautiful time that was. How we longed for your coming in those days And the evenings the children spent with you in your chamber. How pleasant you always made it for us. We knew we were always welcome. I have often thought what a trial it must have been to you when we forgot ourselves and made a little As Written: luttle noise That time is far distant now But the memory of it has always been a pleasure to me I can remember your last words to me as if it were yesterday When you told me to " Take good care of your mother and God will take care of you" It s ank deep into my mind. I little knew its meaning then but have realized it to its fullest extent since. I thank you for what you were to me then an ideal. I was always wishing I might be like you. But there could be but one. I thank you for what you have caused to be done for me to assist me in the care of that mother whom you commended to my care so many years ago. I believed in you then and I do to this day through good and evil reportII Cor 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. II Cor 6:2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) II Cor 6:3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: II Cor 6:4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, II Cor 6:5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; II Cor 6:6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, II Cor 6:7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, II Cor 6:8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; II Cor 6:9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; II Cor 6:10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. . May every blessing attend you is the wish of your
| Accession: | 470.54.003 |
| Editorial Title: | Florence Scott Lothrop to Mary Baker Eddy, April 24, 1909 |
| Author: | Florence Scott Lothrop |
| Recipient: | Mary Baker Eddy |
| Date: | April 24, 1909 |
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Let us go back to the old days when we called you Mrs Glover. There, now I can feel your arms about me as they used to be in the springtime long ago when we used to hunt the anemone and you told me of the beautiful May flowers of your native StateEditorial Note: New Hampshire. What a beautiful time that was. How we longed for your coming in those days And the evenings the children spent with you in your chamber. How pleasant you always made it for us. We knew we were always welcome. I have often thought what a trial it must have been to you when we forgot ourselves and made a luttle Corrected: little noise That time is far distant now But the memory of it has always been a pleasure to me I can remember your last words to me as if it were yesterday When you told me to "t Take good care of your mother and God will take care of you" It su ank deep into my mind. I little knew its meaning then but have realized it to its fullest extent since. I thank you for what you were to me then an ideal. I was always wishing I might be like you. But there could be but one. I thank you for what you have caused to be done for me to assist me in the care of that mother whom you commended to my care so many years ago. I believed in you then and I do to this day through good and evil reportII Cor 6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. II Cor 6:2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) II Cor 6:3 Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: II Cor 6:4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, II Cor 6:5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; II Cor 6:6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, II Cor 6:7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, II Cor 6:8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; II Cor 6:9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; II Cor 6:10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. . May every blessing attend you is the wish of your