Accession: L02506
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Clara E. Choate, December 22, 1882
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Clara E. Choate 
Date: December 22, 1882 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on lined paper from Boston, Massachusetts.
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My Dear Mrs. Choate,

I shall not get to your house today, circumstances that are nameless prevent.

O! what a life of drudgery and abuse I have lived since the students have been governed by demons in the shape of human forms.

I could not speak to strangers as I feel today, under such shocking discouragements as surround me, with no help, no sympathy , no human heart to respond to my woe as I drink this cup of gallPs 69:20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. Ps 69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Matt 27:33 And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, Matt 27:34 ¶They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. in reward for all my labors of love.

The last drop has been added by our enemies getting up the rumor that you were ordained pastor over the Church and now they are visiting on me another revenge over you.

One thing I ask as a favor of you and hope you will see my motive in doing so, namely. Do not take the Sabbath As Written: sabbath school class that you spoke of and don't As Written: dont spend your thoughts in any direction but healing and teaching others to heal The time you give to building up this causeEditorial Note: The Cause of Christian Science. is wasted by any other way of doing it under the high pressure of Satan As Written: satan that is going on in the ranks of the enemy I don’t As Written: dont feel like speaking next Sunday but hope I can say just enough to close my labors among little else but treachery malice, and selfishness

Yours in truth and love
M B G E
L02506
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My Dear Mrs. Choate,

I shall not get to your house today, circumstances that are nameless prevent.

O! what a life of drudgery and abuse I have lived since the students have been governed by demons in the shape of human forms.

I could not speak to strangers as I feel today, under such shocking discouragements as surround me, with no help, no sympathy , no human heart to respond to my woe as I drink this cup of gallPs 69:20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. Ps 69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Matt 27:33 And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, Matt 27:34 ¶They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. in reward for all my labors of love.

The last drop has been added by our enemies getting up the rumor that you were ordained pastor over the Church and now they are visiting on me another revenge over you.

One thing I ask as a favor of you and hope you will see my motive in doing so, namely. Do not take the sabbath Corrected: Sabbath school class that you spoke of and dont Corrected: don't spend your thoughts in any direction but healing and teaching others to heal The time you give to building up this causeEditorial Note: The Cause of Christian Science. is wasted by any other way of doing it under the high pressure of satan Corrected: Satan that is going on in the ranks of the enemy I dont Corrected: don’t feel like speaking next Sunday but hope I can say just enough to close my labors among little else but treachery and malice, and selfishness

Yours in truth and love
M B G E
 
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