⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker EddyCONCORD, New HampshireAs Written:N. H. April 27 1895
My dear Students
Send back to Mrs. Courtney the five hundred and over dollarsEditorial Note: 500 that I left out of the Building fund until the Church was built And knew not what I did but thought I sent to you all that was sent to me. God has revealed to me todayAs Written:to-day that that money was the 30 piecesMatt 26:15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. wherewith to betray As Written: bitray Christ, Truth, into the hands of its murderers. That money was given to make way for getting Courtney into my business even to selling your textbookAs Written:text-bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.! For months I have found a diminishing of from oneEditorial Note: 100 to three hundredEditorial Note: 300 dollars on my royalty monthly. And this after my sermon that advertised S. & H.Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. to such a wide extent. I spoke of this to Dr. Foster, but he claimed it was all normal. Something was said in FebruaryAs Written:Feb. that made me surprised and I asked the Dr. if Mrs. Courtney was in BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts. yet? And he replied "I suppose from what you say she must be". But I never dreamed of her being his private, very private secretary ― and handling his bank books! I received a bonnet from her as a present, but I sent it back; God would not let me wear it even as He would not put her money in His house. Yesterday for the first time a loyal student told me the horrid fact that she was the Dr.'s sec. and that he gave my students to believe that I knew it!! She, the woman that was a tool of Mason'sEditorial Note: Likely Frank E. Mason and who the Dr once said to me (After a trip with her and Mason in the Cars) — was a bad woman! She put into our sanctuary, our pastor's place to sell our birth rightGen 25:29 ¶And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint: Gen 25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. Gen 25:31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. Gen 25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? Gen 25:33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Gen 25:34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright. . She is proven to be corresponding with Mason! and well may the Dr conclude to hide from me as usual the sins he commits. But God is uncovering rapidly some of these hidden works that have laid me on the altar for the last six years. Please attend to my request at once
A letter from her to the Dr. fell into my hands some weeks ago. It was a peculiar letter this sentence was in it. "I will be with you soon dear one" A married woman working for him without wages ― and he concealing this from me and using such means and persons to traffic in my God-given book.
