Accession: L03283
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to William B. Johnson, March 23, 1892
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: William B. Johnson 
Annotator: Unknown 
Date: March 23, 1892
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined paper.
Archival Note: There is a notation in pink in Eddy’s hand at the top of the letter. The same notation has also been copied in another hand at the end of the letter, likely at a later time.
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L03283
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My dear Student

I had forgotten what you named, but this is of no consequence, farther than the good it did, namely, to prevent your being misled. All that I have counseled has worked well for Church and CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. Your only danger now lies in the past being repeated. Another faction formed to pick off my soldiers, to make the leader of it a traitor and to work right in your camp in the most plausible manner Watch, the hour is ominous, when any student goes against my advice and still gives orders in my name that one is making up his quota.

I wrote to you, Miss Bartlett, and others not to organize a Church! Then it was reported that I gave the order to organize, but I did not.

Now your salvation as a people whose God is the Lord lies in being wise as a serpentMatt 10:16 ¶Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. . Again I repeat do not unless God speaks through me to you to do it, change your present materially disorganized — but spiritually organized — Church, nor its present form of Church government, and watch that the DirectorsEditorial Note: Christian Science Board of Directors are not carried to propose or to make any As Written: aney changes relative to the present forms of Church work

The lot I paid for, the taxes on it, the expense of Lawyer etc are all straightAs Written:straightly, legally and forever settled —

No man can make it otherwise any more than evil can destroy Good

Affectionately
M B G Eddy

(This letter is private )

Handshift:UnknownWisely warn the Directors not to be misled. Do this alone M A M is busy on the points before named

L03283
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Strictly private
My dear Student

I had forgotten what you named, but this is of no consequence, farther than the good it did, namely, to prevent your being misled. All that I have counseled has worked well for Church and CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. Your only danger now lies in the past being repeated. Another faction formed to pick off my soldiers, to make the leader of it a traitor and to work right in your camp in the most plausible manner Watch, the hour is imninent ominous, when any student goes against my advice and still gives orders in my name that one is making up his quota.

I wrote to you, Miss Bartlett, and others not to organize a Church! Then it was reported that I gave the order to organize, but I did not.

Now your salvation as a people whose God is the Lord lies in being wise as a serpentMatt 10:16 ¶Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. . Again I repeat do not unless God speaks through me to you to do it, change your present materially disorganized — but spiritually organized — Church, nor its present form of Church government, and watch that the DirectorsEditorial Note: Christian Science Board of Directors are not carried to propose or to make aney Corrected: any changes relative to the present forms of Church work

The lot that I paid for, the taxes on it, the expense of Lawyer etc are all straightlyCorrected:straight, legally and forever settled —

No man can make it otherwise any more than evil can destroy Good

Affectionately
M B G Eddy

(This letter is private )

Handshift:UnknownWisely warn the Directors not to be misled. Do this alone M A M is busy on the points before named

 
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