Accession: L01617
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Alfred Farlow, January 21, 1901
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Alfred Farlow 
Annotator: Alfred Farlow 
Date: January 21, 1901
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
Archival Note: This letter includes a "12" notation in Alfred Farlow's handwriting on the last page of the letter.
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Dear Student

You have had much in belief to overcome But this only makes one strongerAs Written:stonger Muscles they tell you are strengthened As Written: strengthend by hard and frequent use Muscles are mortal thoughts and if you believed As Written: beleved as much as the boxers that this tension and activity of mortal mind strengthened it thus would you learn what Jesus meant "my burden is light."Matt 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Be of good cheerJohn 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. When an article on my wrongs appears in our prints it must tell the whole story and have all the muscle and nerve of the [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by Alfred Farlow, disrupting the surrounding thought.Handshift:Alfred Farlow12[*]Archival Note: End floating text.Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy Divine Mind i.e. As Written: ie. All the Truth and Love that human wisdom and divine Science and human wisdom can bring to the rescue. I need a strong hand human to lift up mine even as Moses had it.Ex 17:8 ¶Then came
Amalek, and fought with Israel in
Rephidim.
Ex 17:9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to-morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. Ex 17:10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. Ex 17:11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. Ex 17:12 But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. Ex 17:13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. Ex 17:14 And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. Ex 17:15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah–nissi: Ex 17:16 For he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
You have done well you have learned just the wise ways of meeting the pressEditorial Note: Alfred Farlow was serving in the role of Committee on Publication, and in that position was responsible for interacting with the press and correcting misconceptions about Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science. At this time in particular, this involved press related to the Woodbury suit. and would have mastered if m. a. m. had been out of the conflict You must master that or you can do little for me I am the target for all the fire

With love
M B Eddy
L01617
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Dear Student

You have had much in belief to overcome But this only makes one stongerCorrected:stronger Muscles they tell you are strengthend Corrected: strengthened by hard and frequent use Muscles are mortal thoughts and if you beleved Corrected: believed as much as the boxers that this tension and activity of mortal mind strengthened it thus would you learn what Jesus meant "my burden is light."Matt 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Be of good cheerJohn 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. When an article on my wrongs appears in our prints it must tell the whole story and have all the muscle and nerve of the divine [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by Alfred Farlow, disrupting the surrounding thought.Handshift:Alfred Farlow12[*]Archival Note: End floating text.Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy Divine Mind ie. Corrected: i.e. All the Truth and Love that human wisdom and divine ScienceAs Written:and divine Science and divine Science and human wisdom can bring to the rescue. I need a strong hand human to lift up mine even as Moses had it.Ex 17:8 ¶Then came
Amalek, and fought with Israel in
Rephidim.
Ex 17:9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to-morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand. Ex 17:10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. Ex 17:11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. Ex 17:12 But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. Ex 17:13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. Ex 17:14 And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. Ex 17:15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah–nissi: Ex 17:16 For he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
You have done well you have learned just the wise ways of meeting the pressEditorial Note: Alfred Farlow was serving in the role of Committee on Publication, and in that position was responsible for interacting with the press and correcting misconceptions about Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science. At this time in particular, this involved press related to the Woodbury suit. and would have mastered if m. a. m. had been out of the conflict You must master that or you can do little for me I am the target for all the fire

With love
M B Eddy
 
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The following text was later added to the document by Alfred Farlow, disrupting the surrounding thought. End floating text. Alfred Farlow was serving in the role of Committee on Publication, and in that position was responsible for interacting with the press and correcting misconceptions about Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science. At this time in particular, this involved press related to the Woodbury suit.