Accession: L01975
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Ebenezer Foster Eddy, October 15, 1895
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Ebenezer Foster Eddy 
Date: October 15, 1895 - 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 “1895”. This document contains illegible erasures. See original.
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CONCORD, New HampshireAs Written:N. H., Oct. 15.
My dear Benny

Your interesting letter receivedAs Written:rec'd It was a step taken in the right direction to meet the demands of the by-laws As Written: by=laws which all the members have before voted to accept.

At our last interview as you knelt beside me and prayed for strength I did hope anew that my faith could mount upward and that I should yet see of the travail of my motherhoodJohn 16:21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. , joy instead of sorrow, and its pangs cease forever

My students must not be handled mentally only to help as I direct and they must be left to my guidance and not to another students Those are the conditions of the church readers and officer to observe throughout May God bless you and guide you and save you When I made you ReaderEditorial Note: Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy became First Reader of The First Church of Christ, Scientist on October 1, 1895, replacing Septimus J. Hanna. He served until October 29, 1895, when Hanna again assumed the Readership. my folks at home was surprised but I said it my hope to save him by it They remember I said this I did not hear what you said or should have told you that at the table. Pray daily dear one, watch and strive to overcome envy mad ambition and revenge. These special things make your especial petitions

With love
Mother
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CONCORD, N. H.Expanded:New Hampshire, Oct. 15.
My dear Benny

Your interesting letter rec'dExpanded:received It was a step taken in the right direction to meet the demands of the by=laws Corrected: by-laws which all the members have before voted to accept.

At our last interview as you knelt beside me and prayed for streng [?] Unclear or illegible th I did hope anew that my faith could mount upward and that I should yet see of the travail of my motherhoodJohn 16:21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. , joy instead of sorrow, and its pangs cease forever

My students must not be handled mentally only to help as I direct and they must be left to my guidance and not to another students Those are the conditions of the church readers and officer to observe throughout May God bless you and guide you and save you When I made you ReaderEditorial Note: Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy became First Reader of The First Church of Christ, Scientist on October 1, 1895, replacing Septimus J. Hanna. He served until October 29, 1895, when Hanna again assumed the Readership. my folks at home was surprised but I said it my hope to save him by it They remember I said this I did not hear what you said or should have told you that at the table. Pray daily dear one, watch and strive to overcome envy mad ambition and revenge. These special things make your especial petitions

With love
Mother
 
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received [For: rec’d] Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy became First Reader of The First Church of Christ, Scientist on October 1, 1895, replacing Septimus J. Hanna. He served until October 29, 1895, when Hanna again assumed the Readership.