Accession: L03684
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Irving C. Tomlinson, July 8, 1899
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Irving C. Tomlinson 
Date: July 8, 1899
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
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My beloved Student

I am glad you have the prospect of a home Had you taken Mr Moore's tenement it would have given you a chance to keep house and been near the one you own to attend to fixing that estate. I wish mother could be excused by divine Love from speaking as I did to my fresh happy callers! I thought I was done when I went to my room but the scripture I opened to and the leadings spiritual sent me back. What I saidEditorial Note: Eddy is referring to a situation of the previous morning when Irving C. Tomlinson, his sister Mary E. Tomlinson, the Bakers, Lemuel Pope, and one or two others were called by Mary Baker Eddy to Pleasant View. After completing her business with them, Eddy withdrew but returned shortly after, ordering Calvin A. Frye and Clara M. Sainsbury Shannon, who served in Eddy's household, to confess their shortcomings to the group, and she spoke severely to them about the state of their thinking. Eddy sometimes spoke very firmly to her older students when she felt led to do so in prayer and saw a need for them to understand something they seemed to be missing. I no more expected to say than when I wrote S. & H.Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Afterwards I recalled your kind care of me getting everything ready etc when I went to BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts and said – O what have I said! I also knew that these Sinai As Written: Sini detonations make the student grow most rapidly As Written: rappidly into the holy fitness for every demonstration; or they (under the fire of the enemy) cause him by degrees to dislike mother and keep aloof from her counsel

The way is strait and narrowMatt 7:13 ¶Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Matt 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. You remember I told you at first of the unseen secret placePs 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. where few if any enter – holiness. Can I see God and live? Can you?Ex 33:20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

With love
Mother M B Eddy
L03684
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My beloved Student

I am glad you have the prospect of a home Had you taken Mr Moore's tenement it would have given you a chance to keep house and been near the one you own to attend to fixing that estate. I wish mother could be excused by divine Love from speaking as I did to my fresh happy callers! I thought I was done when I went to my room but the scripture I opened to and the leadings spirituall, sent me back. What I saidEditorial Note: Eddy is referring to a situation of the previous morning when Irving C. Tomlinson, his sister Mary E. Tomlinson, the Bakers, Lemuel Pope, and one or two others were called by Mary Baker Eddy to Pleasant View. After completing her business with them, Eddy withdrew but returned shortly after, ordering Calvin A. Frye and Clara M. Sainsbury Shannon, who served in Eddy's household, to confess their shortcomings to the group, and she spoke severely to them about the state of their thinking. Eddy sometimes spoke very firmly to her older students when she felt led to do so in prayer and saw a need for them to understand something they seemed to be missing. I no more expected to say than when I wrote S. & H.Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Afterwards I recalled your kind care of me getting everything ready etc when I went to BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts and said – O what have I said! I also knew that these Sini Corrected: Sinai detonations make the student grow most rappidly Corrected: rapidly into the holy fitness for every demonstration; or they, (under the fire of the enemy,) cause him by degrees to dislike mother and keep aloof from her counsel

The way is strait and narrowMatt 7:13 ¶Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Matt 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. yYou remember I told you at first of the unseen secret placePs 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. where few if any enter – holiness. Can I see God and live? Can you?Ex 33:20 And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

With love
Mother M B Eddy
 
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Eddy is referring to a situation of the previous morning when Irving C. Tomlinson, his sister Mary E. Tomlinson, the Bakers, Lemuel Pope, and one or two others were called by Mary Baker Eddy to Pleasant View. After completing her business with them, Eddy withdrew but returned shortly after, ordering Calvin A. Frye and Clara M. Sainsbury Shannon, who served in Eddy's household, to confess their shortcomings to the group, and she spoke severely to them about the state of their thinking. Eddy sometimes spoke very firmly to her older students when she felt led to do so in prayer and saw a need for them to understand something they seemed to be missing. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Boston, Massachusetts