Accession: L02565
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Augusta E. Stetson, August 4, 1903
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Augusta E. Stetson 
Date: August 4, 1903 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
Archival Note: An archivist note on this letter reads, "Attached to letter from Mrs. Stetson dated Aug 4, 1903." This document includes illegible erasures. See original.
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Concord, N. H.
Beloved Student Augusta:

In your dear letter to me you showed "The signs of the timesMatt 16:2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. Matt 16:3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? " that make me sad and to which I call your attention and beg you to watch and pray that you be not led into temptationMatt 26:41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. thereby. These signs are many and this is one of them.

In your letter to me you spoke of your "divine self". Where do you find such a selfhood outside of God? Nowhere, it is an unscientific statement You can say your spiritual or Godlike As Written: God-like self, but divine self includes God, and man is not in God — he is His divine reflection, but not a divine selfhood. This expression is one of Waldo Emerson's notions, and you beware of m. a. m. filling your thoughts with such anti-ChristianAs Written:anti Christian Science! I know this is being tried on other students and is tending to darken their understanding.

Your material Church is another danger in your path it occupies too much of your attention it savors of the goddess of the Ephesians, the great DianaEditorial Note: Diana of Ephesus was the Roman name for the Greek goddess Artemis. The Temple of Artemis was a large temple constructed of marble and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.. O turn ye to one God. I had hoped the intervalEditorial Note: In 1902, Eddy had requested that branch churches adopt or adapt the new bylaw limiting Readers terms to three years, as was now the practice for The Mother Church. This meant that Stetson was no longer serving as First Reader of First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York, New York, a role she had held for many years. from Readership would give you a great growth in healing and this is needed more than all else on earth. My healing and then my explanation of it — was all that could establish Christian ScienceAs Written:C.S. and with this the students can do all the good that is done.

With deep love Thine
M. B. Eddy.
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Concord, N. H.
Beloved Student Augusta:

In your dear letter to me you showed "The signs of the timesMatt 16:2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. Matt 16:3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? " that make me sad and to which I call your attention and beg you to watch and pray that you be not led into temptationMatt 26:41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. thereby. These signs are many and this is one of them.

In your letter to me you spoke of your "divine self". Where do you find such a selfhood outside of God? Nowhere, it is an unscientific statement You can say your spiritual or God-like Corrected: Godlike self, but divine self includes God, and man is not in God — he is His divine reflection, but not a divine selfhood. This expression is one of Waldo Emerson's notions, and you beware of m. a. m. filling your thoughts with such anti ChristianCorrected:anti-Christian Science! I know this is being tried on other students and is tending to darken their understanding.

Your material Church is [?] Unclear or illegible another danger in your path it occupies too much of your attention it savors of the goddess of the Ephesians, the great DianaEditorial Note: Diana of Ephesus was the Roman name for the Greek goddess Artemis. The Temple of Artemis was a large temple constructed of marble and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.. O turn ye to one God. I had hoped the intervalEditorial Note: In 1902, Eddy had requested that branch churches adopt or adapt the new bylaw limiting Readers terms to three years, as was now the practice for The Mother Church. This meant that Stetson was no longer serving as First Reader of First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York, New York, a role she had held for many years. from Readership you would give you a great growth in healing and this is needed more than all else on earth. My healing and then my explanation of it — was all that could establish C.S.Expanded:Christian Science and with this in the students can do all the good that is done.

With deep love Thine
M. B. Eddy.
 
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Diana of Ephesus was the Roman name for the Greek goddess Artemis. The Temple of Artemis was a large temple constructed of marble and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. In 1902, Eddy had requested that branch churches adopt or adapt the new bylaw limiting Readers terms to three years, as was now the practice for The Mother Church. This meant that Stetson was no longer serving as First Reader of First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York, New York, a role she had held for many years.