Accession: 550.58.018
Editorial Title: Emma Curtis Hopkins to Mary Baker Eddy, April 18, 1884
Author: Emma Curtis Hopkins 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: April 18, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Emma Curtis Hopkins on embossed lined paper.
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My dear Mrs. Eddy. –

Surely Intelligence Divine does rule your hour.

Your silence with respect to my having joined your church till legally qualified by the action of the (foolish) church to which I belong in Killingly Connecticut As Written: Conn. was wisely maintained.

He (Mr P.) asked me if I still insisted upon such a letter which I assured him solemnly I did.

Then he asked me to wait his wisest consideration which I agreed to. Doubtless now I can be in time, kindly recommended.

If you had heard my warm defence of you and the noble work being done I think you would have been gratified at my fearlessness thoughAs Written:tho' my heart within was really heavy.

I know your tender love shelters me and I think of you gratefully.

I want to see you only just when I am cheerful for I know you are one “ of sorrows and acquainted with griefIsa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. ” like your MasterEditorial Note: Jesus Christ and we must not add our care or anxious thought as your students

Really and Truly Your loving friend
Emma Hopkins
550.58.018
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dear Mrs. Eddy. –

Surely Intelligence Divine does rule your hour.

Your silence with respect to my having joined your church till legally qualified by the action of the (foolish) church to which I belong in Killingly Conn. Corrected: Connecticut was wisely maintained.

He (Mr P.) asked me if I still insisted upon such a letter which I assured him solemnly I did.

Then he asked me to wait his wisest consideration which I agreed to. Doubtless now I can be in time, kindly recommended.

If you had heard my warm defence of you and the noble work being done I think you would have been gratified at my fearlessness tho'Expanded:though my heart within was really heavy.

I know your tender love shelters me and I think of you gratefully.

I want to see you only just when I am cheerful for I know you are one “ of sorrows and acquainted with griefIsa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. ” like your MasterEditorial Note: Jesus Christ and we must not add our care or anxious thought as your students

Really and Truly Your loving friend
Emma Hopkins
 
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