Accession: L07568
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Edward A. Kimball, June 1, 1901
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Edward A. Kimball 
Date: June 1, 1901
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
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I recommend that you let God decide all that belongs to this hour and show the lawyers Christian ScienceAs Written:C. S. in practice. When I wrote you beforeEditorial Note: See L07565 and L07567. it had been mooted about Hanna I knew it should be doneEditorial Note: Eddy is referencing having Hanna take the stand at trial. whether or not they agreed to it. I never in thirty-fiveAs Written:thirty five years have known a failure if my advice is taken when God moves me to speak. Had it been taken in the first instance of this suitEditorial Note: This is a reference to a libel suit against Mary Baker Eddy by Josephine Curtis Woodbury. The suit was filed on July 31, 1899, and concluded in Eddy’s favor on June 5, 1901. it would have spared me the more than tortures of DreyfusEditorial Note: The Dreyfus trial was a massive political and judicial scandal that divided France from 1894 to 1906. It centered on Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery officer in the French army who was wrongfully convicted of treason for allegedly selling military secrets to Germany.. I reiterate these things to keep the students As Written: studnts in the strait and narrow pathMatt 7:13 ¶Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Matt 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. looking in the spiritual line alway. I hold up also the worst side before them to have them not blind to the hidden thought that I see, so they can better forestall its effects I speak this humbly and only in behalf of God not me aloneAs Written:alome. I have found you wise, watchful, vigilant – but none see what I see hence the wisdom of faith in me. This wisdom will carry you and all who have it into utter success. I send Bates' letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. to let you see what I like in him

With love
Mother Mary Baker Eddy
L07568
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

I recommend that you let God decide all that belongs to this hour and show the lawyers C. S.Expanded:Christian Science in practice. When I wrote you beforeEditorial Note: See L07565 and L07567. it had been mooted Iabout Hanna I knew it should be doneEditorial Note: Eddy is referencing having Hanna take the stand at trial. whether or not they agreed to it. I never in thirty fiveCorrected:thirty-five years have known a failure if my advice is taken when God moves me to speak. Had it been taken in the first instance of this suitEditorial Note: This is a reference to a libel suit against Mary Baker Eddy by Josephine Curtis Woodbury. The suit was filed on July 31, 1899, and concluded in Eddy’s favor on June 5, 1901. it would have spared me the more than tortures of DreyfusEditorial Note: The Dreyfus trial was a massive political and judicial scandal that divided France from 1894 to 1906. It centered on Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery officer in the French army who was wrongfully convicted of treason for allegedly selling military secrets to Germany.. I reiterate these things to keep the studnts Corrected: students in the strait and narrow pathMatt 7:13 ¶Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Matt 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. looking in the spiritual line alway. I hold up also the worst side before them to have them not b [?] Unclear or illegible lind to the hidden thought that I see, so they can better forestall its effects I speak this humbly and only in behalf of God not me alomeCorrected:alone. I have found you wise, watchful, vigilant – but none [?] Unclear or illegible  see wh [?] Unclear or illegible  at I see hence the wisdom of faith in me. This wisdom will carry you and all who have it into utter success. I send Bates' letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. to let you see what I like in him

With love
Mother M B Eddy
 
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See L07565 and L07567. Eddy is referencing having Hanna take the stand at trial. This is a reference to a libel suit against Mary Baker Eddy by Josephine Curtis Woodbury. The suit was filed on July 31, 1899, and concluded in Eddy’s favor on June 5, 1901. The Dreyfus trial was a massive political and judicial scandal that divided France from 1894 to 1906. It centered on Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery officer in the French army who was wrongfully convicted of treason for allegedly selling military secrets to Germany. This letter is not extant.