Accession: L04152
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Helen A. Nixon, September 2, 1892
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Helen A. Nixon 
Date: September 2, 1892 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined paper from Concord, New Hampshire.
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Pleasant View Concord.
New HampshireAs Written:N. H.
Sept 2
Mrs Nixon
My dear Student,

May the peace of Love rest on you. The constant effects of unseen evil must not recur. Christian Scientists must are above these opposite fruits of the spiritGal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Gal 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

I have settled the legal question for the Church, rather, God has. I tried to incorporate anew, but the legal arm said no! "We could not be chartered by our former name" I would not quarrel, but took the pacific step and God has done great things for us in giving us a Church independent of religious or civil oppression

In all I have done I have endeavored As Written: endeavord to be just to the Trustees as well as to those not entrusted. Messrs Perry and Griffin said "make the board of Trustees and Directors one" I have, and your husband was the only Trustee that expressed a desire not to be on the board and I have honored his wish as express when he was last in Concord

At his wish the others have resigned, I am glad of this ― for they will be more unified, and God demands this. I have given a legal claim to the land, and God has shown me the way. Now I beseech you "to love one another even as I have loved youJohn 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. John 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. ", and walk worthy of your high callingEph 4:1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, . I shall have nothing to do whatever with any more disputed questions. I never knew a single plan of the Pub. Com. until it was about to be carried out. They never troubled me with it. Mrs. King has got what she called for, and I am mute.

No more editors shall I recommend unless God compels, and I trust He is now willing to give me future exemption from strife, for this is not the fruit of Christian Science

May the dear Love that never failethI Cor 13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. comfort you and bless your endeavors

Lovingly Thine
MBG Eddy
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Pleasant View Concord.
N. H.Expanded:New Hampshire
Sept 2
Mrs Nixon
My dear Student,

May the peace of Love rest on you. The constant effects of unseen evil must not recur. Christian Scientists must be, are above these opposite fruits of the spiritGal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Gal 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

I have settled the legal question for the Church, rather, God has. I tried to incorporate anew, but the legal arm said no! "We could not be chartered by our former name" I would not quarrel, but took the pacific step and God has done great things for us in giving us a Church independent of religious or civil oppression

In all I have done I have endeavord Corrected: endeavored to be just to the Trustees as well as to those not entrusted. Messrs Perry and Griffin said "make the board of Trustees and Directors one" I have, and your husband was the only Trustee that expressed a desire not to be on the board and I have honored his wish as express when he was last in Concord

At his wish the others have resigned, I am glad of this ― for [?] Unclear or illegible  they will be more unified, and God demands this. I have given a legal claim to the land, and God has shown me the way. Now I beseech you "to love one another even as I have loved youJohn 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. John 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. ", and walk worthy of your high callingEph 4:1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, . I shall have nothing to do whatever with any more disputed questions. I never knew a single plan of the Pub. Com. until theyit was about to be carried out. They never troubled me with it. Mrs. King has got what she called for, and I am mute.

No more editors shall I recommend unless God compels, and I trust He is now willing to give me future exemption from strife, for this is not the fruits of Christian Science

May the dear Love that never failethI Cor 13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. comfort you and bless your endeavors

Lovingly Thine
MBG Eddy
 
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