Accession: L07559
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy / Calvin A. Frye to Edward A. Kimball, May 22, 1901
Author: Mary Baker Eddy  Calvin A. Frye 
Recipient: Edward A. Kimball 
Date: May 22, 1901
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy and Calvin A. Frye on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
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Beloved Student:

I have the old experience engendered here that makes it too tough. I think it must be the new crews that are making the argumentAs Written:arguement personal about the newspapersEditorial Note: As the libel suit against Mary Baker Eddy by Josephine Curtis Woodbury reached its climax, Eddy felt that she was increasingly being targeted by the press. The Woodbury suit was filed on July 31, 1899 and concluded in Eddy’s favor on June 5, 1901.. It is either that or the prayer, "O Divine Love" &c. First test it on the newspaper Committees. Tell them not to name me in the argument nor refer to me. There is no need of it. They can take up the question as Truth and a lie and argue that lies do not affect the newspaper men. They do not believe them &c and they cannot be made to believe them. That Truth governs their thoughts & justice & mercy govern their acts and they cannot be governed by anythingAs Written:any thing else. That they want to do as they would be done byMatt 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. and they will do it & neither W. nor her students nor any other mortal minds can cause them to do otherwise.

Handshift:Mary Baker EddyIf this is not carried out lovingly and rightly so as to avoid the clash of mesmerism then drop the Com.Editorial Note: Committee on Publication organization and leave it to the wise gentle administration of Mr. Farlow and help him in some way My life is of more importance to the cause of Christian ScienceAs Written:C. S. than any results won from such a jargon You and Farlow work rightly It works here just as the first crews that you organized did. So beloved Student, it is not right in some way. Stop them all if after adopting the prayer aforesaid the jargon is not stopped.

With love
M B Eddy
L07559
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Beloved Student:

I have the old experience engendered here that makes it too tough. I think it must be the new crews th [?] Unclear or illegible at are making the arguementCorrected:argument personal about the newspapersEditorial Note: As the libel suit against Mary Baker Eddy by Josephine Curtis Woodbury reached its climax, Eddy felt that she was increasingly being targeted by the press. The Woodbury suit was filed on July 31, 1899 and concluded in Eddy’s favor on June 5, 1901.. It is either that or the prayer, "O dDivine Love" &c. First test it on the newspaper Committees. Tell them not to name me or W. in the argument nor refer to me. There is no need of it. They can take up the question as of Truth and a lie and argue that the lies doesdo not affect the newspaper men. They do not believe [?] Unclear or illegible them &c and they cannot be made to believe them. That Truth governs their thoughts & the justice & mercy govern their acts and they cannot be governed by any thingCorrected:anything else. That they want to do as they would be done byMatt 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. and they will do it & neither W. nor her students nor the those any other mortal min [?] Unclear or illegible ds [?] Unclear or illegible can cause them to do otherwise.

Handshift:Mary Baker EddyIf this is not carried out lovingly and rightly so as to avoid the clash of mesmerism then drop the Com.Editorial Note: Committee on Publication organization and leave it to the wise gentle administration of Mr. Farlow and help him in some way My life is of more importance to the cause of C. S.Expanded:Christian Science than any results won from such a jargon You and Farlow work rightly It works here just as the first crews that you organized did. So [?] Unclear or illegible beloved Student, it is not right in some way. Stop them all if after adopting the prayer aforesaid the jargon is not stopped.

With love
M B Eddy
 
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As the libel suit against Mary Baker Eddy by Josephine Curtis Woodbury reached its climax, Eddy felt that she was increasingly being targeted by the press. The Woodbury suit was filed on July 31, 1899 and concluded in Eddy’s favor on June 5, 1901. Committee on Publication