Accession: L02061
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Eldridge J. Smith, May 19, 1883
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Eldridge J. Smith 
Date: May 19, 1883
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on lined Massachusetts Metaphysical College stationery from Boston, Massachusetts.
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May 19, 1883
My very dear Student,

Your kind and welcome letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. received today. As usual was rejoiced to hear from you I hope you and your dear wife will visit Boston this summer so that I can see you often. My college is now full every sleeping apartment As Written: appartment occupied. O, if only I was at home in my own house at Lynn I should try hard to have you and your wife spend several weeks with me. As it is now, one of you, if that one was a gentleman, could sleep with one of my students for a night or so (Mr. Buswell is the student) On Monday the 21.st I go to Tilton N. H.Editorial Note: Tilton, New Hampshire to see to the setting up of my dear Gilbert's MonumentEditorial Note: This monument is located on the Baker family lot in Park Cemetery, Tilton, New Hampshire. Shall return on Tuesday

Nothing could give me much more pleasure than to see you here and have a long talk alone. I have important things to communicate, and it seems to me God has a work for you to do that is of the greatest import to the race.

Drop me a line saying you will be here soon, can you not?

Write something please, for our Journal of Christian Science, and always remember your offering to the Lord is to be made very soon, and always remember no one can feel a more sincere interest in your advancement than I.

We must join ourselves to spiritual Life before we can be happy or immortal. We cannot do this too soon. Begin my dearest Student, to look on the side of the real, to enjoy the substance of all being; the life that is hid with Christ, apart from all worldliness, or sense of within, or sense of sickness. You have begun; keep on; I am blest in Christ, the " secret place of the most HighPs 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. " but I feel like a fish out of water when I am filled with cares mortal. It seems enough that I have the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. on hand—in the feeble sense of the offices I fill. But my father our fatherEditorial Note: God knows what we can bear He helps me and he will help us. O! the joy of his help blest is the spirit that soars and sings.

Good bye God bless you ever

Truly
Mary
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May 19, 1883
My very dear Student,

Your kind and welcome letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. received today. As usual was rejoiced to hear from you I hope you and your dear wife will visit Boston this summer so that I can see you often. My college is now full every sleeping appartment Corrected: apartment occupied. O, if only I was at home in my own house at Lynn I should try hard to have you and your wife spend several weeks with me. As it is now, one of you, if that one was a gentleman, could sleep with one of my students for a night or so (Mr. Buswell is the student) On Monday the 21.st I go to Tilton N. H.Editorial Note: Tilton, New Hampshire to see to the setting up of my dear Gilbert's MonumentEditorial Note: This monument is located on the Baker family lot in Park Cemetery, Tilton, New Hampshire. Shall return on Tuesday

Nothing could give me much more pleasure than to see you here and have a long talk alone. I have important things to communicate, and it seems to me God has a work for you to do that is of the greatest import to the race.

Drop me a line saying you will be here soon, can you not?

Write something please, for our Journal of Christian Science, and always remember your offering to the Lord is to be made very soon, and always remember no one can feel a more sincere interest in your advancement than I.

We must join ourselves to spiritual Life before we can be happy or immortal. We cannot do this too soon. Begin my dearest Student, to look on the side of the real, to enjoy the substance of all being; the life that is hid with Christ, apart from all worldliness, or sense of within, or sense of sickness. You have begun; keep on; I am blest in Christ, the " secret place of the most HighPs 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. " but I feel like a fish out of water when I am filled with cares mortal. It seems enough that I have the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. on hand—in the feeble sense of the offices I fill. But my father our fatherEditorial Note: God knows what we can bear He helps me and he will help us. O! the joy of his help blest is the spirit that soars and sings.

Good bye God bless you ever

Truly
Mary
 
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