Accession: L03418
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Ira O. Knapp, May 11, 1892
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Ira O. Knapp 
Date: May 11, 1892 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten in pencil by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined paper from Concord, New Hampshire.
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My dear Student,

I seem to hear so plainly tonight the words that tell me I am doing too much for the Church As Written: Chuch in Boston, more than is my duty to do. All her disputations are laid on my bending shoulders.

Now please do not let anyoneAs Written:any one that you have not informed already know of what I last wrote to you.

And let the Church reorganize if she thinks best. Perhaps this is the best lesson for her. Do not say one word against it again, and I shall not. God tests us all, tries us on our weakest points. Hers has always been to yield to the influence of man and not God — now let her pass on to her experience and the sooner the better. When we will not learn in any other way this is God's order of teaching us. His rod alone will do it. And I am at last willing, and shall struggle no more

With love
Mary B G Eddy
L03418
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My dear Student,

I seem to hear so plainly tonight the words that tell me I am doing too much for the Chuch Corrected: Church in Boston, more than is my duty to do. All her disputations are laid on my bending shoulders.

Now please do not let any oneCorrected:anyone that you have not informed already know of what I last wrote to you.

And let the Church reorganize if she thinks best. Perhaps this is the best lesson for her. Do not say one word against it again, and I shall not. God tests us all, tries us on our weakest points. Hers has always been to yield to the influence of man and not God — now let her pass on to her experience and the sooner the better. When we will not learn in any other way this is God's order of teaching us. His rod alone will do it. And I am at last willing, and shall struggle no more

With love
Mary B G Eddy
 
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