Accession: L04085
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Clara E. Choate, October 26, 1880
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Clara E. Choate 
Date: October 26, 1880 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy.
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Dear Student,

I do hope you will excuse me for delay in replying. Tell Miss. Brooks she can call any day in the P. M. of this week and until Wed. of next week. [I am sorry you are so tried, but God is speaking to us all, either in commendation or rebuke through the things we experience, if we are As Written: ard doing strictly right we shall be blessed for all we endure if not, and we continue to justify ourselves we shall suffer more and more and gain nothing through that suffering. We must be honest, speak the Truth , tell things as they are or not tell them, we must be unselfish and not envious, we must do as we would be done byMatt 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Luke 6:31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. , is what God is saying―and He will continue that demand and our punishment for not doing so until we are changed and yield obedience to this divine law:] May God help and bless my dear student, is my constant prayer, and teach her and lead her up higher. I am loath to ask you to do anything for me as you are so tried and perplexed but I think you would ask me under like circumstances to help you as much, therefore I do as I would be done byMatt 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Luke 6:31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. . The favor I ask is, will you go to 551 Shawmut Ave. and put my curls, that once was on my own head and I prize them very much, my muff and tippetEditorial Note: A tippet is a piece of clothing, something like a scarf, worn over the shoulders. into a paper and send them to me or take them to your rooms and keep them till I call for them? I have everything to see to myself and more than I can do sometimes

Yours Affectionately As Written: Affectionatly
M B G Eddy
L04085
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Dear Student,

I do hope you will excuse me for delay in replying. Tell Miss. Brooks she can call any day in the P. M. of this week and until Wed. of next week. [I am sorry you are so tried, but God is speaking to us all, either in commendation or rebuke through the things we experience, if we ard Corrected: are doing strictly right we shall be blessed for all we endure if not, and we continue to justify ourselves we shall suffer more and more and gain nothing through that suffering. We must be honest, speak the Truth , tell things as they are or not tell them, we must be unselfish and not envious, we must do as we would be done byMatt 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Luke 6:31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. , is what God is saying―and He will continue that demand and our punishment for not doing so until we are changed and yield obedience to this divine law:] May God help and bless my dear student, is my constant prayer, and teach her and lead her up higher. I am loath to ask you to do anything for me as you are so tried and perplexed but I think you would ask me under the like circumstances to help you as much, therefore I do as I would be done byMatt 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Luke 6:31 And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. . The favor I ask is, will you go to 551 Shawmut Ave. and put my curls, that once was on my own head and I prize them very much, my muff and tippetEditorial Note: A tippet is a piece of clothing, something like a scarf, worn over the shoulders. into a paper and send them to me or take them to your rooms and keep them till I call for them? I have everything to see to do myself and more than I can do sometimes

Yours Affectionatly Corrected: Affectionately
M B G Eddy
 
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A tippet is a piece of clothing, something like a scarf, worn over the shoulders.