Accession: L03518
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to James A. Neal, September 19, 1895
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: James A. Neal 
Scribe: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: September 19, 1895
Manuscript Description: Typewritten for Mary Baker Eddy, by Calvin A. Frye as scribe, with handwritten edits and signature by Eddy, on Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
Archival Note: This letter includes the note "Dictated" in Calvin A. Frye's handwriting.
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L03518
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Dictated.

Did you assume the cost of postage and express on my books sold by you or did the Dr.? I forgot to itemize that. I have no motive in asking only to know how that was.

Now dear one, you are my student and you must not be guided by the audible or inaudible suggestions of others. I was astounded when I heard you were taking music lessons. I am not willing you should do that. There is nothing more intoxicating to the senses and I have seen so much of that I am losing As Written: loosing my love for music.

I want you to give your whole time and attention to Christian Science. If you intend to practice and lecture as I had hoped you would you cannot divide your time with anything else and do justice to your practice. God does not demand a half of the heart but the whole heart.

L03518
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Dictated.

Did you assume the cost of postage and express on my books sold by you or did the Dr.? I forgot to itemize that that. I have no motive in asking only to know how that was.

Now dear one, you are my student and you must not be guided by the audible or inaudible suggestions of others. I was astounded when I heard you were taking music lessons. I am not willing you should do that. There is nothing more intoxicating to the senses and I have seen so much of that I am loosing Corrected: losing my love for music.

I want you to give your whole time and attention to Christian Science. If you intend to practice and lecture as I had hoped you would you cannot divide your time with anything else and do justice to your practice. God does not demand a half of the heart but the whole heart.

 
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