Accession: L06986
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to William P. McKenzie, July 20, 1903
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: William P. McKenzie 
Date: July 20, 1903
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
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Beloved Student:

I thank you deeply for your faithful arrangementEditorial Note: McKenzie was assisting Eddy with a forthcoming revision of The Manual of The Mother Church. of the Manual. There were many things still to be done for it, the repetitions etc. to be attended to, and I have attended to them. Please hasten the printer and send me the page proof just as soon as possible. Meantime return the proof of the corrected pages The field greatly needs the Manual and I have promised it forthcoming. Let no one but yourself and printer and Mr. Armstrong if need be see the By-Laws till they can be read together in a book. Then they can be understood; and God will show our beloved brethren the need of the amendments I have made. I want to see you, Mrs. McKenzie and the dear little one sometime. I have much to tell. One thing is — unless there is less teaching, less church As Written: chuch making, and better healing, and more of it — our denomination will sink into the slough of past sects in having a religion of the letter without the Spirit — of doctrine without demonstration.

Love to Mrs. McKenzie, a kiss for little McKenzie, and a prayer for you all.

Thine sincerely in truth and love
M. B. Eddy
L06986
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Beloved Student:

I thank you deeply for your faithful arrangementEditorial Note: McKenzie was assisting Eddy with a forthcoming revision of The Manual of The Mother Church. of the Manual. There were many things still to be done for it, the repetitions etc. to be attended to, and I have attended to them. Please hasten the printer and send me the page proof just as soon as possible. Meantime return the proof of the corrected pages The field greatly needs the Manual and I have promised it forthcoming. Let no one but yourself and printer and Mr. Armstrong if need be see the By-Laws till they can be read together in a book. Then they can be understood; and God will show our beloved brethren the need of the amendments I have made. I want to see you, Mrs. McKenzie and the dear little one sometime. I have much to tell. One thing is — unless there is less teaching, less chuch Corrected: church making, and better healing, and more of it — [?] Unclear or illegible our denomination will sink into the slough of past sects in having a religion of the letter without the Spirit — of doctrine without demonstration.

Love to Mrs. McKenzie, a kiss for little McKenzie, and a prayer for you all.

Thine sincerely in truth and love
M. B. Eddy
 
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McKenzie was assisting Eddy with a forthcoming revision of The Manual of The Mother Church.