Accession: L01883
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy, January 10, 1894
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy 
Date: January 10, 1894 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
Archival Note: An archivist notation on this letter reads "Jan 10, 1894".
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Benny dear,

I have stopped my book Christ & XmasEditorial Note: Christ and Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy, published on December 2, 1893. being printed! The students make a golden calfEx 32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. Ex 32:2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. Ex 32:3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. Ex 32:4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. Ex 32:5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To-morrow is a feast to the Lord. Ex 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. Ex 32:7 ¶And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: Ex 32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. of it and therefore I pull down this dagonEditorial Note: Dagon was a god worshipped in ancient Syria.. Don't ever speak of it as a healer I did in my articleEditorial Note: "Christ and Christmas" by Mary Baker Eddy in the January 1894 issue of The Christian Science Journal. for our Mag. but did not know then the modus operandi abroad The booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy heal scientifically. The PoemEditorial Note: Christ and Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy, published on December 2, 1893. is not made the healer but the pictures are. The Poem cannot heal intelligently, and the picture-healing is made by misuse a charm-healing such as pagans use, and mind-curers mesmerists and fath-curers adopt to save learning As Written: learing through As Written: thrugh growth out of error into Truth. It has done great good in unifying the students and healing the breaches made through the late movements. Now I stop like Moses to see when the students are grown, and the people, to the glory of Christ and ChristmasEditorial Note: Christ and Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy, published on December 2, 1893., and its uses

Say not a word of this till I make it public

Love from
Mamma

Come home next Sat.

L01883
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Benny dear,

I have stopped my book Christ & XmasEditorial Note: Christ and Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy, published on December 2, 1893. being printed! The students make a golden calfEx 32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. Ex 32:2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me. Ex 32:3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. Ex 32:4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. Ex 32:5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To-morrow is a feast to the Lord. Ex 32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play. Ex 32:7 ¶And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: Ex 32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. of it and therefore I pull down this dagonEditorial Note: Dagon was a god worshipped in ancient Syria.. Don't ever speak of it as a healer I did in my articleEditorial Note: "Christ and Christmas" by Mary Baker Eddy in the January 1894 issue of The Christian Science Journal. for our Mag. but did not know then the modus operandi abroad The booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy heal scientifically. The PoemEditorial Note: Christ and Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy, published on December 2, 1893. is not made the healer but the pictures are. The Poem cannot heal intelligently, and the pictures-healing is made by misuse a charm-healing such as pagans use, and mind-healerscurers mesmerists and fath-curers adopt to save learing Corrected: learning thrugh Corrected: through growth out of error into Truth. It has done great good in unifying the students and healing the breaches made through the late movements. Now I stop like Moses to see when the students are grown, and the people, to the glory of Christ and ChristmasEditorial Note: Christ and Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy, published on December 2, 1893., and its uses

Say not a word of this till I make it public

Love from
Mamma

Come home next sSat.

 
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Christ and Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy, published on December 2, 1893. Dagon was a god worshipped in ancient Syria. "Christ and Christmas" by Mary Baker Eddy in the January 1894 issue of The Christian Science Journal. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Christ and Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy, published on December 2, 1893. Christ and Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy, published on December 2, 1893.