Accession: A11130A
Editorial Title: EXTEMPORE
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Scribe: William R. Rathvon 
Annotator: William R. Rathvon 
Date: January 1, 1910
Manuscript Description: Typewritten for Mary Baker Eddy, with William R. Rathvon as scribe and including a handwritten note by Rathvon, at her Chestnut Hill home in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Archival Note: This poem was published on page 695 of the February 1910 issue of The Christian Science Journal.
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EXTEMPORE.
January 1st. 1910.

I O blessings infinite O glad New Year! Sweet sign and substance Of God's presence here.

II Give us not only angels' songs But ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science vast, to which belongs The tongue of angels And the song of songs.

MARY BAKER EDDY.

⇉ Handshift:William R. RathvonThe above was typed by me at Chestnut Hill on New Years day (1910) after it was dictated to Mrs Sargent by Mrs. Eddy.-

Mrs Sargent appended these words to the copy she handed me which is hereto attached

"Our beloved Leader was only about ten minutes in composing this poem. This I know for I was present and heard it from her lips"

Wm. R. Rathvon

Dec. 3, 1927
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EXTEMPORE.
January 1st. 1910.

I O blessings infinite! O glad New Year! Sweet singn and substance Of God's presence here.

II Give us not only angels' songs But ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science vast, to which belongs The tongue of angels And the song of songs.

MARY BAKER EDDY.

⇉ Handshift:William R. RathvonThe above was typed by me at Chestnut Hill on New Years day (1910) after it was dictated to Mrs Sargent by Mrs. Eddy.-

Mrs Sargent appended these words to the copy she handed me which is hereto attached

"Our beloved Leader was only about ten minutes in composing this poem. This I know for I was present and heard it from her lips"

Wm. R. Rathvon

Dec. 3, 1927
 
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