Accession: L01933
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy, December 10, 1895
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy 
Date: December 10, 1895 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined paper.
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Dec. 10.
My dear Son,

Your letter is a great relief. I am sorry to trouble you to read my last sent in doubt, not having had an answer either to my telegrams or letters. Last night I endured what? nothing, but you and others might have felt it and have named it death! Laura spoke about the trunk in your closet and I was surprised to hear that she told you I wanted you to take your things away the eve you left, and when I convinced her that I did not mean what she thought and that it was another inversion and perversion, she exclaimed "then I sent him away", and fled into her room. After a little I felt she needed me & sent Mr. F. to her room he came back quickly to tell me her condition and just in time to save her as she lay prostrate on her face

Oh! shall I be spared long enough with you to save you all from the snares of the fowlerPs 91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. ! Will you all ever open your eyes to see how you misjudge me, misinterpret me, misunderstand me, and one another! Laura or Martha would no more harm you knowingly than I would— I may do myself harm by yielding to faint under the burden of the sins of others and so repeat the history of the cross in the second appearing. But this I know that the spiritual ideal through me can no more wrong anyoneAs Written:any one now than when Jesus laid down his life before for othersI John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. ! How much severernoware the sins, false surmises, the awful enmity of the carnal mindRom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. to bear in this century than in the first. Yet you pity the past Jesus and believe him right in all things and believe his best friends were wrong in all wherein they differed from the dear Master

Do you sympathize As Written: sympathiz with or understand the present appearing of the spiritual idea or personal medium for God to speak through to the world, as you will 19 centuries hence?

Oh! cannot my deeds if not my words open the blind eyesIsa 42:6 I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; Isa 42:7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

As ever your
Mother
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Dec. 10.
My dear Son,

Your letter is a great relief. I am sorry to trouble you to read my last sent in doubt, not having had an answer either to my telegrams or letters. Last night I endured what? nothing, but you and others might have felt it and have named it death! Laura spoke about the trunk in your closet and I was surprised to hear that she told you I wanted you to take your things away the eve you left, and when I convinced her that I did not mean what she thought and that it was another inversion and perversion, she exclaimed "then I sent him away", and fled into her room. After a little I felt she needed me & sent Mr. F. to her room he came back quickly to tell me her condition and just in time to save her as she lay prostrate on her face

Oh! shall I be spared long enough with you to save you all from the snares of the fowlerPs 91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. ! Will you all ever open your eyes to see how you misjudge me, misinterpret me, misunderstand me, and one another! Laura or Martha would no more harm you knowingly than I would— I may do myself harm by yielding to faint under the burden of the sins of others and so repeat the history of the cross in the second appearing. But this I know that the spiritual ideal through me can no more wrong any oneCorrected:anyone now than when Jesus laid down his life before for othersI John 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. ! How much severernoware the sins, false surmises, the awful enmity of the carnal mindRom 8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. to bear in this century than in the first. Yet you pity the past Jesus and believe him right in all things and believe his best friends were wrong in all wherein they differed from the dear Master

Do you sympathiz Corrected: sympathize with or understand the present appearing of the spiritual idea or personal medium for God to speak through to the world, as you will 19 centuries hence?

Oh! cannot my deeds if not my words open the blind eyesIsa 42:6 I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; Isa 42:7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

As ever your
Mother
 
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