Accession: L04928
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Septimus J. Hanna, June 11, 1892
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Septimus J. Hanna 
Date: June 11, 1892 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined paper from Concord, New Hampshire.
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My dear Student

Your interesting letterEditorial Note: See 033A.13.011. is received.

The question is big, and wisely considered by you.

There is more present good done by being in the midst of error and neutralizing the old with the new. The old battle of dishonesty in politicians needs emptying, and it needs your purpose poured into it, purpose to accomplish the most good for the largest number. If you are now sufficiently rooted and grounded in Christ, Truth, and all its sweet savors of patience, wisdom, grace, to bear the strain, you can do more good by occasionally working among politicians than by taking yourself away from them.

It will be a great strain on your Christliness, but if you take it up as a crossMatt 16:24 ¶Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. , and bear it meekly, God will direct and sustain all such endeavors, and you will grow in the stature of ChristEph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: by all the things that await you.

Regards to Mrs. Hanna

Most Truly
Mary B G Eddy
L04928
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dear Student

Your interesting letterEditorial Note: See 033A.13.011. is received.

The question is big, and wisely considered by you.

There is more present good done by being in the midst of error and neutralizing the old with the new. The old battle of dishonesty in politicians needs emptying, and it needs your purpose poured into it, purpose to accomplish the most good for the largest number. If you are now sufficiently rooted and grounded in Christ, Truth, and all its sweet savors of patience, wisdom, grace, to bear the strain, you can do more good by occasionally working among politicians than toby taking yourself away from them.

It will be aa great strain on your Christliness, but if you take it up as a crossMatt 16:24 ¶Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. , and bear it meekly, God will direct and sustain all such endeavors, and you will grow in the stature of ChristEph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: by all these things that await you.

Regards to Mrs. Hanna

Most Truly
Mary B G Eddy
 
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