Accession: L01600
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Alfred Farlow, December 9, 1899
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Alfred Farlow 
Annotator: Alfred Farlow 
Date: December 9, 1899
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
Archival Note: This document includes a notation in Alfred Farlow's handwriting.
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⇉ Handshift:Alfred Farlow190
⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy Concord, New HampshireAs Written:N.H. Dec. 9, '99.
My dear Student

Your last favorEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. I wanted to answer sooner but could not It gave me joy to hear your wish as to the press

Yes, do as you did at the West and much evil can be spared the public.

The Press impresses more minds mortal than we really estimate Till the "one evil" turned on me it the press had become reconciled to me and the leading newspapers were in my favor all over our land. Their editors sought my articles on the most important topics. Now if you work untrammeled you can accomplish great good in this direction. God helps you, and who can stay His hand?Dan 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? When you accomplish this reform in the Boston press then I have for you an important officeEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy established the Publication Committee in December 1898. It was initially a three-member committee and Farlow was one of these members. In January 1900 it was changed to a single member committee and Farlow was appointed to this role. This is likely the "important office" that Eddy is referring to here. which needs a true, active, adamant man to fill it

With love
M B Eddy
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⇉ Handshift:Alfred Farlow190
⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy Concord, N.H.Expanded:New Hampshire Dec. 9, '99.
My dear Student

Your last favorEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. I wanted to answer sooner but could not It gave me joy to hear your wish as to the press

Yes, do as you did at the West and andAs Written:and much evil can be spared the public.

The Press impresses more minds mortal than we really estimate Till the "one evil" turned on me it the press had become reconciled to me and the leading newspapers were in my favor all over our land. Their editors sought my articles on the most important topics. Now if you work untrammeled you can accomplish great good in this direction. God helps you, and who can stay His hand?Dan 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? When you accomplish this reform in the Boston press then I have for you an important officeEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy established the Publication Committee in December 1898. It was initially a three-member committee and Farlow was one of these members. In January 1900 it was changed to a single member committee and Farlow was appointed to this role. This is likely the "important office" that Eddy is referring to here. which needs a true, active, adamant man to fill it

With love
M B Eddy
 
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This letter is not extant. Mary Baker Eddy established the Publication Committee in December 1898. It was initially a three-member committee and Farlow was one of these members. In January 1900 it was changed to a single member committee and Farlow was appointed to this role. This is likely the "important office" that Eddy is referring to here.