Accession: L04996
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Septimus J. Hanna / Camilla A. Hanna, January 5, 1894
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Septimus J. Hanna,  Camilla A. Hanna 
Date: January 5, 1894
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
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There is a flower whose language is "I wound to heal"Editorial Note: This phrase is often referred to as the symbolic meaning of the Sweetbriar or Eglantine rose There is a physician who loves those whom He chastens There is a woman who chastens most those whom she loves. Why? Because like a surgeon she makes her incisions As Written: incissions on the tender spot to remove the cold lead that is dangerous there. Was not "Christ and ChristmasEditorial Note: Christ and Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy, published on December 2, 1893." a good remedy when it worked well as you found? Is it not Truth and does not Truth heal? Yes, but even the truth is not to be spoken at all times

What you have to meet dear ones is only a fear and what pacifies fear does not destroy it Take your weapon that kills it, ― The first commandment, and with that cut off its head No matter if you have some fighting to do, it better be done today As Written: to-day than tomorrow, for done it must be to decapitate the ghost. This is our play of "much ado about nothingEditorial Note: This is referencing William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing."

I have read carefully the letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. "referred" to me. I can see no advantage from teaching what cannotAs Written:can not be taught briefly beyond what it has been in your late publications for an obscure author, (or one not named) to publish, when the C. S. Journal and our literature are at hand

Please pardon my offhandAs Written:off hand opinion

With much love
MBG Eddy
L04996
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

There is a flower whose language is "I wound to heal"Editorial Note: This phrase is often referred to as the symbolic meaning of the Sweetbriar or Eglantine rose There is a physician who loves those whom He chastens There is a woman who chastens most those whom she loves. Why? Because like a surgeon she makes her incissions Corrected: incisions on the tender spot to remove the cold lead that is dangerous there. Was not "Christ and ChristmasEditorial Note: Christ and Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy, published on December 2, 1893." a good remedy when it worked well as you found? Is it not Truth and does not Truth heal? Yes, but even the truth is not to be spoken at all times

What you have to meet dear ones is only a fear and what pacifies fear does not destroy it Take your weapon that kills it, ― The first commandment, and with that cut off its head No matter if you have some fighting to do, it better be done to-day Corrected: today than tomorrow, for done it must be to decapitate the ghost. This is our play of "much ado about nothingEditorial Note: This is referencing William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing."

I have read carefully the letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. "referred" to me. I can see no advantage from teaching what can notCorrected:cannot be taught briefly beyond what it has been in your late publications for an obscure author, (or one not named) to publish, when the C. S. Journal and our literature are at hand

Please pardon my off handCorrected:offhand opinion

With much love
MBG Eddy
 
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This phrase is often referred to as the symbolic meaning of the Sweetbriar or Eglantine rose Christ and Christmas by Mary Baker Eddy, published on December 2, 1893. This is referencing William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. This letter is not extant.