Accession: L02064
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Eldridge J. Smith, January 2, 1884
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Eldridge J. Smith 
Date: January 2, 1884
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on lined Massachusetts Metaphysical College stationery.
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Jan 2. 1884
Dearly beloved,

Your excellent letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. just received. Those gems have a fit home in our paper, do not forget to send me something for it every issue. My household all send love to you and say come. If I had waited till the close of this letter should have forgotten to send their greetings as I have done before. Am so rejoiced that God is bidding to his feast " Arise and shine for the glory of the Lord has risen upon youIsa 60:1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. "

Yes dear one, we want you, we need you. I cannot much longer hold the fort alone, I often say, but God gives me strength as my dayDeut 33:25 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be. .

Now remember the branch of this work that so much needs you especially, and help us. Hear the cry as of old from Macedonia come up and help us.Acts 16:9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. Acts 16:10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them. Yes, you are in the spirit of this call and will answer — here am I, to the divine mandate.

I have lots of little things to tell, but wait to do so orally. I cannot write or say all I feel that would be denying my convictions of the impossibility there is to express ourselves by our lives.

May God bless you and your dear wife as He is doing, and more abundantly this New Year and every year that is to come

The best way for your wife to progress in the understanding, or you either, is to heal; demonstration is indispensable to the understanding of this ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science. But you have no time as it is

Yes, yes, I need retirement to wipe my wings and plume them I sometimes think I must take it, even if the dear ChildEditorial Note: Christian Science, my " only begotten of the father full of grace and truthJohn 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. " is lost to this period.

Ever thine
M B G E

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Jan 2. 1883 1884
Dearly beloved,

Your excellent letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. just received. Those gems have a fit home in our paper, do not forget to send me something for it every issue. My household all send love to you and say come. If I had waited till the close of this letter should have forgotten to send their greetings as I have done before. Am so rejoiced that God is bidding to his feast " Arise and shine for the glory of the Lord has risen upon youIsa 60:1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. "

Yes dear one, we want you, we need you. I cannot much longer hold the fort alone, I often say, but God gives me strength as my dayDeut 33:25 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be. .

Now remember the branch of this work that so much needs you especially, and help us. Hear the cry as of old from Macedonia come up and help us.Acts 16:9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. Acts 16:10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them. Yes, you are in the spirit of this call and will answer — here am I, to the divine mandate.

I have lots of little things to tell, but wait to do so orally. I cannot write or say all I feel that would be denying my convictions of the impossibility there is to express ourselves by our lives.

May God bless you and your dear wife as He is doing, and more abundantly this New Year and every year that is to come

The best way for your wife to progress in the understanding, or you either, is to heal; demonstration is indispensable to the understanding of this ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science. But you have no time as it is

Yes, yes, I need retirement to wipe my wings and plume them I sometimes think I must take it, even if the dear ChildEditorial Note: Christian Science, my " only begotten of the father full of grace and truthJohn 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. " is lost to this period.

Ever thine
M B G E

 
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