Accession: L01662
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Alfred Farlow, July 7, 1904
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Alfred Farlow 
Annotator: Alfred Farlow 
Date: July 7, 1904
Manuscript Description: Typewritten for Mary Baker Eddy, with a handwritten signature and edits, on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
Archival Note: This document includes a notation "77" in Alfred Farlow's handwriting. See original.
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Handshift:Alfred Farlow77

That articleEditorial Note: See "The Use of the Title 'Leader'" in the June 25, 1904 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel. in the SentinelEditorial Note: Christian Science Sentinel relative to Leadership, by the editor in chief, was grand but was too personal, and you are perpetuating the same mistake. The students should take the Manual more for their authority and not personalize so much. This would prevent As Written:pervent making me the target on all occasions and would establish a dignified defence on the basis of Principle and not personality. Let the Manual be the authority for the conduct of the church members

Mr. McLellan is doing well as an editor his progress is marked but as I have no moments now in which to write to him it were well for you to send this letter to him and have it understood that the editors and the Publication CommitteesEditorial Note: Committees on Publication of our denomination shall base their admonitions on the Manual, the Scriptures, and "Science And HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy"– and not found their public discussions on me. This would give less offense and tend to arouse the students to joint action and the readers and thinkers to ponder our great purpose.

Lovingly yours
Mary B G Eddy
L01662
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Handshift:Alfred Farlow77

That articleEditorial Note: See "The Use of the Title 'Leader'" in the June 25, 1904 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel. in the SentinelEditorial Note: Christian Science Sentinel relative to Leadership, by the editor in chief, was grand but was too personal, and you are perpetuating the same mistake. The students should take the Manual more for their authority and not personalize so much. This would perventCorrected:prevent making me the target on all occasions and would establish a dignified defence on the basis of Principle and not personality. Let the Manual be the authority for the conduct of the church members

Mr. McLellan is doing well as an editor his progress is marked but as I have no moments now in which to write to him it were well for you to send this letter to him and havie it understood that the editors and the Publication CommitteesEditorial Note: Committees on Publication of our denomination shall base their admonitions on the Manual, the Scriptures, and "Science And HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy"– and not found their public discussions on me. This would give less offense and tend to arouse the students to joint action and the readers and thinkers to ponder our great purpose.

Lovingly yours
Mary B G Eddy
 
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See "The Use of the Title 'Leader'" in the June 25, 1904 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel. Christian Science Sentinel Committees on Publication Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy