You must make strong efforts to save poor Stetson or M. A. M. will put out her light. When a student loses the true sense of me, and what I do, they are at the threshold of the plunge so many make into darkness and believing the darkness is a greater light. Poor Stetson's weak spot is the salient point for this temptation to enter and surrender to the enemy. She who has seen the fall of others on this very ground she stands, has allowed herself to take it.
Hear Nixon's boast "I have tried three years to change the minds of others as to Mrs Eddy." Then hear his next saying under his own signature "When the founder of Christian Science is taken away its christianity will disappear with her note this"
Now he is not the author of that first boasting thought, Richard Kennedy of BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts is, and to ruin the students and the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. works towards deceiving them as to me ― this done he feels sure of their downfall [*]Archival Note: A heavily erased and struck out section is included here.; hence that commandAs Written:comnand "bear ye one anothers burdensGal 6:2 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. " etc Mrs. Woodbury called on Mrs. S., she rebuffed her ― then follows the revenge and the blindness towards me and my work But this could not be if the student was right, clear, honest ― and one I had taught and labored for as I have for her.
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The sermon may be necessarily kept out of this issue of Jour. on account of my article being longer than you expected. Then by reason of this circumstance God may show you what is best to do with it hereafter Let us hope that the factions determined on be not formed, and our church be built, and the brethren dwell together in unityPs 133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Oh help me and all God's servants to carry out this result. Envy and mad ambition has faced me for over 20 years ― to gain the upermost placeMark 12:38 ¶And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces, Mark 12:39 And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts: by displacing me. Oh how strange! when I was trying incessantly to uplift and honor these very students but to do this I must tell them their faults. This they would allow until they gained a certain height As Written: hight then they would revenge it. But alas! always to their own destruction and to my justification for God reigns.