Accession: L03064
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Archibald McLellan, August 29, 1903
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Archibald McLellan 
Annotator: Unknown 
Date: August 29, 1903
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
Archival Note: There is a notation in an unknown hand, "33," on this document.
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Beloved Student:

I deeply sympathized with you in all you wroteEditorial Note: See 005AP1.04.032 I would quickly, joyfully give you a rule for each need wherewith to supply it. But God alone can do this, and He will do it. Ask for wisdom of Him, the divine Love, and you will receive it and as ye prayMark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. believe and it shall be done unto you are the words of our Master

Our periodicallsEditorial Note: The Christian Science Journal and Christian Science Sentinel stand for a system to be established and a Science to be demonstrated. They are not to amuse or to entertain so much as to instruct the public. They should contain only what tends to this result The dabblers in literature are not the ones to fill this demand We need cultured writers to make the abstract interesting; and sound subjects to make His readers satisfied. Wisdom and the keen perception of what to write and how and when to write it, are requisite in the Editor, and a fearless stand as to maintaining the rights and rules of periodicals in self defence and the dignity due to our paper and its purpose. Wit and wise repartee are sometimesAs Written:some times auxiliaries to this end; and sarcasm blent with love may gain a strong point in human thought. Unlettered novices in Christian ScienceAs Written:C. S- are not the writers that we need. I recommend that you get exchanges with the leading religious or secular magazines and newspapers if possible. This is advantageous in many respects

Accept my thanks for your labors

Lovingly yours
MB Eddy
L03064
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Handshift:unknown33
Beloved Student:

I deeply sympathized with you in all you wroteEditorial Note: See 005AP1.04.032 I would quickly, joyfully give you a rule for each need wherewith to supply it. But God alone can do this, and He will do it. Ask for wisdom of Him, the divine Love, and you will receive it and as ye prayMark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. believe and it shall be done unto you are the words of our Master

Our periodicallsEditorial Note: The Christian Science Journal and Christian Science Sentinel stand for a system to be established and a Science to be demonstrated. They are not to amuse or to entertain so much as to instruct the public. They should contain only what tends to this result The dabblers in literature are not the ones to fill this demand We need cultured writers to make the abstract interesting; and sound subjects to make His readers satisfied. Wisdom and the keen perception of what to write and how and when to write it, are requisite in the Editor, and a fearless stand as to maintaining the [?] Unclear or illegible rights and rules of periodicals in self defence and the dignity due to our paper and its purpose. Wit and wise repartee are some timesCorrected:sometimes auxiliaries to this end; and sarcasm blent with love may gain a strong point in human thought. Unlettered novices in C. S-Expanded:Christian Science are not the writers that we need. I recommend that you get exchanges with the leading religious or secular magazines and newspapers if possible. This is advantageous in many respects

Accept my thanks for your labors

Lovingly yours
MB Eddy
 
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