Accession: L04290
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to John Carroll Lathrop, May 9, 1906
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: John Carroll Lathrop 
Date: May 9, 1906
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
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My beloved Student:

Your mother's dear letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. came duly. Thank her for me, tell her I love her.

Your letterEditorial Note: A letter from John Carroll Lathrop titled "True Appreciation" was published in the May 19, 1906, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel. is too good to keep from the public I have sent it to be published in our periodicalsEditorial Note: The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel

Press on, you are in the line of light Rise to realize the glory of strife; seeking is not sufficient whereby to enter the Kingdom of Harmony; I mourn over the ease of Christian Scientists, – they are not at ease in the pains of sense but are at ease in its pleasures! Which drives out quickest the tenant you wish to get out of your house, the pleasant hours he enjoys in it or its unpleasantnessAs Written:unpleantness?

I hope the teachers of Christian ScienceAs Written:C. S. will awake to do their duty towards getting out tenants from ease and pleasure in substance, life, and intelligence in matter. I am worn with doing this work alone.

Lovingly ever yours,
Mary Baker Eddy
L04290
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My beloved Student:

Your mother's dear letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. came duly. Thank her for me, tell her I love her.

Your letterEditorial Note: A letter from John Carroll Lathrop titled "True Appreciation" was published in the May 19, 1906, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel. is too good to keep from the public I have sent it to be published in our periodicalsEditorial Note: The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel

Press on, you are in the line of light Rise to realize the glory of strife; seeking is not sufficient whereby to enter the Kingdom of Harmony; I mourn over the easei of Christian Scientists, – they are not at ease in the pains of sense but are at ease in its pleasures! Which drives out quickest the tenant you wish to get out of your house, the pleasant hours he enjoys in it or its unpleantnessCorrected:unpleasantness?

I hope the teachers of C. S.Expanded:Christian Science will awake to do their duty towards getting out tenants from ease and pleasure in substance, life, and intelligence in matter. I am worn with doing this work alone.

Lovingly ever yours,
Mary Baker Eddy
 
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This letter is not extant. A letter from John Carroll Lathrop titled "True Appreciation" was published in the May 19, 1906, issue of the Christian Science Sentinel. The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel