Accession: 589.60.014
Editorial Title: Mattie Williams to Mary Baker Eddy, October 31, 1884
Author: Mattie Williams 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: October 31, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mattie Williams on embossed lined paper from Columbus, Wisconsin.
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Your As Written: You letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. in answer to mineEditorial Note: See 589.60.013. came to hand yesterday. I will most gladly follow your directions. I have tried ever to follow faithfully what I have been so clearly taught, but I think I have not been brave enough. The great trouble with me I could not think I was influenced by other minds. I thought it was my own stupidity I mailed a letter to you just before receiving yours to Miss Moarns address. Yesterday I went to see a child seven months old. had been treated by three doctors. I took the case up Tuesday and Thursday it was quite well I had only given it four treatments One Dr the most experienced one said he could not help the child. He called its disease influenza and inflammation of the throat and bronchial tubes The other physicians said it was whooping cough, and inflammation of the mucus membranes of the throat. The child had been growing worse for the past three or four days. The mother was unwilling to drop medicine. So I told her I would only give the child four treatments. I forgot to say it had a very high feverAs Written:feaver Tuesday night it slept all night the feverAs Written:feaver left. and when I called yesterday it was playing with spools seemed bright and almost well. The poor mother was grateful I can assure you—

They were poor people but wished to remunerate me. I was amply paid by the gratitude manifested. freely I had received freel[y] I gaveMatt 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. and I left that humble cottage with a happy heart. And all the way home I praised the name of my dear father in Heaven who had committed to me the hidden riches of this kingdomMatt 13:44 ¶Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. I will not write more this time lest I weary you. Thanks for your dear letters.

Your affectionate Student
M. Williams
589.60.014
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You Corrected: Your letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. in answer to mineEditorial Note: See 589.60.013. came to hand yesterday. I will most gladly follow your directions. I have tried ever to follow faithfully what I have been so clearly taught, but I think I have not been brave enough. The great trouble with me I could not think I was influenced by other minds. I thought it was my own stupidity I mailed a letter to you just before receiving yours to Miss Moarns address. Yesterday I went to see a child seven months old. had been treated by three doctors. I took the case up Tuesday and Thursday it was quite well I had only given it four treatments One Dr the most experienced one said he could not help the child. He called its disease influenza and inflammation of the throat and bronchial tubes The other physicians said it was whooping cough, and inflammation of the mucus membranes of the throat. The child had been growing worse for the past three or four days. The mother was unwilling to drop medicine. So I told her I would only give the child four treatments. I forgot to say it had a very high feaverCorrected:fever Tuesday night it slept all night the feaverCorrected:fever left. and when I called yesterday it was playing with spools seemed bright and almost well. The poor mother was grateful I can assure you—

They were poor people but wished to remunerate me. I was amply paid by the gratitude manifested. freely I had received freel[y] I gaveMatt 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. and I left that humble cottage with a happy heart. And all the way home I praised the name of my dear father in Heaven who had committed to me the hidden riches of this kingdomMatt 13:44 ¶Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. I will not write more this time lest I weary you. Thanks for your dear letters.

Your affectionate Student
M. Williams
 
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