Accession: L00336
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to The Christian Science Board of Directors, April 27, 1903
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: The Christian Science Board of Directors 
Annotator: William B. Johnson 
Date: April 27, 1903
Manuscript Description: Typewritten for Mary Baker Eddy to The Christian Science Board of Directors, with handwritten edits, signature and postscript, on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
Archival Note: This letter includes a note at the end by William B. Johnson regarding the letter.
Related Topic: L00832ADigital document L00832A not available, L00835Digital document L00835 not available
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Concord. New HampshireAs Written:N.H.
April 27, 1903
Christian Science Board of Directors,
Beloved Students:

Please convene at once and act on this By-lawEditorial Note: See L00832A. This bylaw pertained to Eddy calling students to work at Pleasant View and requested that any church member called to work in her household should go within thirty days to stay and work for a period of twelve consecutive months. then inform me thereof and publish in our Manual. A word as to its origin. When a nation defends itself against wrong it is sometimes driven to accomplish this struggle through its army.

Our causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science needs defence and its principal fort needs fortification. I now call soldiers to supply this need, defend this fort, and the officer within it working for her Church, the field, and the world.

When a nation needs more soldiers it necessarily drafts them. I have come to this necessary call for Christian Scientists to hold our fort in God's service. I gladly pay them for their service and give mine; my only sigh is that these soldiers of the cross have not been volunteers.

With love always
MB Eddy

N.B. Place this letter on the Mother Church records M. B. E.

⇉ Handshift:William B. JohnsonThis letter refers to a By-Law that was passed April 28th but that By-Law was superceded by one adopted May 8thEditorial Note: See L00835 for the amended bylaw adopted May 8. and as the one adopted As Written: adoped April 28 had not been entered in the Church book at the time the one was adopted May 8th, this letter been recorded with the By-Law adopted on that date

W. B. J.

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Concord. N.H.Expanded:New Hampshire
April 27, 1903
Christian Science Board of Directors,
Beloved Students:

Please convene at once and act on this By-lawEditorial Note: See L00832A. This bylaw pertained to Eddy calling students to work at Pleasant View and requested that any church member called to work in her household should go within thirty days to stay and work for a period of twelve consecutive months. then inform me thereof and publish in our Manual. A word as to its origin. When a nation defends itself against wrong it is sometimes driven to accomplish this struggle through its army.

Our causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science needs defence and its principal fort needs fortification. I now call soldiers to supply this need, defend this fort, and the officer within it working for her Church, the field, and the world.

When a nation needs more soldiers it necessarily drafts them. I have come to this necessary call for Christian Scientists to hold our fort in God's service. I gladly pay them for their service and give mine; my only sigh is that these soldiers of the cross have not been volunteers.

With love always
MB Eddy

N.B. Place this letter on the Mother Church records M. B. E.

⇉ Handshift:William B. JohnsonThis letter refers to a By-Law that was passed April 28th but that By-Law was superceded by one adopted May 8thEditorial Note: See L00835 for the amended bylaw adopted May 8. and as the one adoped Corrected: adopted April 28 had not been entered in the Church book at the time the one was adopted May 8th, this letter hasb been recorded with the By-Law adopted on that date

W. B. J.

 
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See L00832A. This bylaw pertained to Eddy calling students to work at Pleasant View and requested that any church member called to work in her household should go within thirty days to stay and work for a period of twelve consecutive months. The cause of Christian Science See L00835 for the amended bylaw adopted May 8.