Accession: L07433
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Edward A. Kimball, October 15, 1893
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Edward A. Kimball 
Date: October 15, 1893 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
Archival Note: See the original for illegible erasures in this letter.
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L07433
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My dear student

God bids me say to you this Quote portions (the best) from students addresses if need be But be sure and add what I enclose to the matter I have already sent. You can see the proper place to insert it by theseAs Written:thise directions which I enclose on other page. This will do more than homilies As Written: homalies or the absolute letter of Christian ScienceAs Written:C. S. to open the heart of the world And I have learned from bitter experience that the head instructed before the heart is ready, costs me and our CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. dangerous difficulties and sore defeats.

Please see in the copy sent you the sentence "In her work Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy the textbookAs Written:text book of Christian Science Mrs Eddy writes: (here insert the matter I herewith inclose)

You asked me to send whatever came to me from the right source hence this I forward

Also I understood you to write that whatever else outside the Address you desired to insert it could be done

Better shorten students good writings than leave out the inspired word

As ever Affectionately
MB.G. Eddy

N.B. For the world to understand me in my true light, and life, would do more for our Cause than aught else could. This I learn from the fact that the enemy tries harder to hide these two things from the world than to win any other points Also Jesus' life and character in their first appearing were treated As Written: treatted in like manner As Written: mannr And I regret to see that loyal students are not more awake to this great demand in their measures to meet the enemies tactics

Again with love MBGE

L07433
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dear student

God bids me say to you this Quote portions (the best) from students addresses if need be But be sure and add what I enclose to the matter I have already sent. yYou can see the proper place to insert it by thiseCorrected:these directions short which I enclose on other page. This will do more than homalies Corrected: homilies or the absolute letter of C. S.Expanded:Christian Science to open the heart of the world And I have learned from bitter experience that the head instructed before the heart is ready, costs me and our CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. dangerous difficulties and sore defeats.

Please see in the copy sent you the sentence "In her work Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy the text bookCorrected:textbook of Christian Science Mrs Eddy writes: (here insert the matter I herewith inclose)

You asked me to send whatever came to me from the right source hence this I forward

Also I understood you to write that whatever else outside the Address you desired to insert it could be done

Better shorten students good writings than leave out the inspired word

As ever Affectionately
MB.G. Eddy

N.B. For the world to understand me in my true light, and life, would do more for our Cause than aught else could. This I learn from the fact that the enemy tries harder to hide these two things from the world than to win any other points Also Jesus' life and character in th [?] Unclear or illegible eir first appearing were treatted Corrected: treated in like mannr Corrected: manner And I regret to see that loyal students are not more awake to this great demand in their measures to meet the enemies tactics

Again with love MBGE

 
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The cause of Christian Science. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy