Accession: L02569
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Augusta E. Stetson, June 8, 1907
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Augusta E. Stetson 
Date: June 8, 1907
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
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Concord. N.H. June 8 1907
Mrs Stetson C.S.D.
My beloved Student

They tell me, that you and your students prey upon me with your thoughts This is an old story, nothing new in it. But I absolve all New YorkAs Written:N. Y. students from having any part in it or circulating it. This however is my duty to say to you, as I do to others of my good friends, namely. At all times let your As Written: yourt trust be in God not in me Personal contagionEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy wrote a short article addressing this issue, titled "Personal Contagion" and published in the July 7, 1906, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel. It was later republished in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany on pages 116-118. comes of thinking of me as a person to bear your sins or be a personal medium of your salvation for I am not

All that I do for you is by means of my pen and teachings, I can do nothing more. Now I ask you as I ask others to keep your thoughts away from me; then my help to others and to you flows from God to man Otherwise you hinder this, even hinder me and injure yourself and others in Christian ScienceAs Written:C. S. Answer this honestly to me. Lovingly

Yours
M B Eddy
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Concord. N.H. June 8 1907
Mrs Stetson C.S.D.
My beloved Student

They tell me, that you and your students prey upon me with your thoughts This is and old story, nothing new in it. But I absolve all N. Y.Expanded:New York students from having any part in it or circulating it. This however is my duty to say to you, as I do to others of my good friends, namely. At all times let yourt Corrected: your trust be in God not in me Personal contagionEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy wrote a short article addressing this issue, titled "Personal Contagion" and published in the July 7, 1906, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel. It was later republished in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany on pages 116-118. comes of thinking of me as a person to bear your sins or be a personal medium of your salvation for I am not

All that I do for you is by means of my pen and teachings, I can do nothing more. Now I ask you as I ask others to keep your thoughts away from me; then my help to others and to you [?] Unclear or illegible  flows from God to man Otherwise you hinder this, even hinder me and injure yourself and others in C. S.Expanded:Christian Science in this Answer this honestly to me. Lovingly to me

yYours
M B Eddy
 
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Mary Baker Eddy wrote a short article addressing this issue, titled "Personal Contagion" and published in the July 7, 1906, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel. It was later republished in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany on pages 116-118.