Accession: L00052
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Unknown, September 17, 1893
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Unknown 
Date: September 17, 1893 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined paper.
Archival Note: An archivist note on this document reads "Probably Sept. 1893."
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My dear StudentEditorial Note: Possibly William B. Johnson

Have not you seen enough to know the need of letting known nothing but "yea yea and nay nay" for whatsoever cometh more than this cometh of evilMatt 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. "?

Now if you pursue telling, writing, or publishingAs Written:pub. what you think is harmless you will find what you have to meet, and find yourselves as ignorant of how to meet it as you have shown in your article for Journal— your ignorance as to the consequences of saying what there is no need of, only to inform against your prosperity in building.

Affectionately
Mother

N. B. Your next concession to M. A. M. is to not lay your foundation till the frost will be dangerous to it.! Why in the name of commonAs Written:comon sense do you not lay the foundation of our Church as God bids you, at once? You ought to have had it lain by this time

MBG Eddy

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17th
My dear StudentEditorial Note: Possibly William B. Johnson

Have not you seen enough to know the need of letting known nothing but "yea yea and nay nay" for whatsoever cometh more than this cometh of evilMatt 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. "?

Now if you pursue telling, writing, or pub.Expanded:publishing what you think is harmless you will find what you have to meet, and find yourselves as ignorant of how to meet it as you have shown in your article for Journal— your ignorance as to the consequences of saying what there is no need of, only to inform against your prosperity in building.

Affectionately
Mother

N. B. Your next concession to M. A. M. is to not lay your foundation till the frost will be dangerous to it.! Why in the name of comonCorrected:common sense do you not lay the foundation of our Church as God bids you, at once? You ought to have had it lain by this time

MBG Eddy

 
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