Accession: 556.58.005
Editorial Title: Charles Thomas Lord to Mary Baker Eddy, April 4, 1884
Author: Charles Thomas Lord 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Annotator: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: April 4, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Charles T. Lord on lined paper from Berwick, Maine.
Archival Note: This letter includes a notation in the handwriting of Mary Baker Eddy.
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April 4 –1884
My Dear friend & Sister,

I am lonely since I left the classEditorial Note: Charles T. Lord studied Christian Science with Mary Baker Eddy in a class that began on February 25, 1884. and returned to my friends As Written: frends . I often think of those blessed, Truths that you tried so hard for us to understand. I shall never regret what I learned, and my desire is to learn more and more of those Truths every day. for I know it is truth. The scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science is the true As Written: Tru religion of Jesus that healed As Written: heled the sick and cast out all error it makes man every whit wholeJohn 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? I had a letter from our friend ChildsEditorial Note: Levi A. Childs studied Christian Science with Mary Baker Eddy in a class that began on February 25, 1884. Charles T. Lord was also a student in that class. was glad to hear from him he has a warm Heart for everyone As Written: every one . And God has a place for him. And my prayer is that God will bless him and you in all your undertakings As Written: undertakins I shall never forget my Dear friends in class and college and may Good bless them all. I found my wife all full of beliefs when I got home She is a little better.

I am treating my cousin for a belief of blindness it is an old belief. The great Dr Willims of Boston says As Written: ses that there is no help for him the optic As Written: optict nerve is weakened from the effect of measles but I think there is for the Same Truth that opened the Eyes As Written: Eys of the blind 18 hundred years ago can and will do it again I am right am I not His Eyes look as well as any one when he gets his sight As Written: site it will give this science As Written: scients a name in Great As Written: Gret Falls and Berwick, that the Back to BacksEditorial Note: Edward J. Arens is said to have taught that a healer should sit back to back with his or her patient while giving treatment. For other references to this, see A10088 and L17741. can not rub out

I am all the man that knows anything about this Truth and I shall stand on the side of Christ the Truth for its foundation in the Rock of AgesEditorial Note: This is an allusion to a hymn titled “Rock of Ages.” It was written by the Reverend Augustus Toplady, an English clergyman, in 1763. and it will stand. Please write me if you do not write but one Line,

Love to you and all
Charles. Thomas. Lord
Berwick
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April 4 –1884
My Dear friend & Sister,

I am lonely since I left the classEditorial Note: Charles T. Lord studied Christian Science with Mary Baker Eddy in a class that began on February 25, 1884. and returned to my frends Corrected: friends . I often think of those blessed, Truths that you tried so hard for us to understand. I shall never regret what I learned, and my desire is to learn more and more of those Truths every day. for I know it is truth. The scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science is the Tru Corrected: true religion of Jesus that heled Corrected: healed the sick and casted out all error it makes man every whit wholeJohn 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? I had a letter from our friend ChildsEditorial Note: Levi A. Childs studied Christian Science with Mary Baker Eddy in a class that began on February 25, 1884. Charles T. Lord was also a student in that class. was glad to hear from him he has a warm Heart for every one Corrected: everyone . And God has a place for him. And my prayer is that God will bless him and you in all your undertakins Corrected: undertakings I shall never forget my Dear friends in class and college and may Good bless them all. I found my wife all full of beliefs when I got home She is a little better.

I am treating my cousin for a belief of blindness it is an old belief. The great Dr Willims of Boston ses Corrected: says that there is no help for him the optict Corrected: optic nerve is weakened from the effect of measles but I think there is for the Same Truth that opened the Eys Corrected: Eyes of the blind 18 hundred years ago can and will do it again I am right am I not His Eyes look as well as any one when he gets his site Corrected: sight it will give this scients Corrected: science a name in Gret Corrected: Great Falls and Berwick, that the Back to BacksEditorial Note: Edward J. Arens is said to have taught that a healer should sit back to back with his or her patient while giving treatment. For other references to this, see A10088 and L17741. can not rub out

I am all the man that knows anything about this Truth and I shall stand on the side of Christ the Truth for its foundation in the Rock of AgesEditorial Note: This is an allusion to a hymn titled “Rock of Ages.” It was written by the Reverend Augustus Toplady, an English clergyman, in 1763. and it will stand. Please write me if you do not write but one Line,

Love to you and all
Charles. Thomas. Lord
Berwick
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Charles T. Lord studied Christian Science with Mary Baker Eddy in a class that began on February 25, 1884. Christian Science Levi A. Childs studied Christian Science with Mary Baker Eddy in a class that began on February 25, 1884. Charles T. Lord was also a student in that class. Edward J. Arens is said to have taught that a healer should sit back to back with his or her patient while giving treatment. For other references to this, see A10088 and L17741. This is an allusion to a hymn titled “Rock of Ages.” It was written by the Reverend Augustus Toplady, an English clergyman, in 1763.