For your costly offerings and kind call to the pastorateEditorial Note: See 001CP1.01.014 and 002A.02.003 for invitation from the Christian Science Board of Directors, sent on March 19, 1895. of The First church of Christ Scientist Boston accept my profound thanks and permit me respectfully to decline their acceptance If it will comfort you in the least make your Pastor Demeritus, nominally Through my bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy your textbookAs Written:text book I already speak to you each Sunday. You ask too much, when asking me to accept your grand church Eddifice I have more of earth now than I desire and less of Heaven. So pardon my refusal of that More effectual than the forum are our states of mind to bless mankind. This wish stops not with my pen. God give you grace [*]Archival Note: The following period (.) is circled.. As our Church'sAs Written:Churches tall tower detains the sun so may luminous lines from your lives linger, a legacy to our race.
