Accession: L07927
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to George B. Wickersham, January 6, 1893
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: George B. Wickersham 
Date: January 6, 1893
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
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Mr. Wickersham
My very dear student,

It was most pleasant to get a letter from you. And I would like to help you and the dear little band of Christian Scientists if I had at my control the right man or woman as I hope you may have before long. Dear Mrs. Bell is good and true, but her deafness puts it out of the possibilities As Written: possibilites for her to meet all the duties of a pastor until she takes this beam out of her own eyeMatt 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Matt 7:4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Matt 7:5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. . All through my classes it was an obstacle for her, no one else, to overcome. I allow no one to report anything to me against her and did not know she was belied. But this we all must share to a greater or less extent. I regretted As Written: regetted the movement made in severing the membership of the first church in your city. I never was responsible for a single movement in all that was done I was informed As Written: inforned that Mrs Linscott reported me as guiding it, but this was absolutely false. I obstinately refused to do so. And now I must again say that I know of no one at liberty to take your pastorate except Mr. Linscott and if his wife would leave him to God's direction I think he would do well for he did well in DenverEditorial Note: Denver, Colorado..

With much love to Mrs. Wickersham and yourself–
Mother
MBG Eddy

Mr. Frye sends love & Dr. Eddy would if here

L07927
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Mr. Wickersham
My very dear student,

It was most pleasant to get a letter from you. And I would like to help you and the dear little band of Christian Scientists if I had at my control the right man or woman as I hope y [?] Unclear or illegible  ou may have before long. Dear Mrs. Bell is good and true, but her deafness puts it out of the possibilites Corrected: possibilities for her to meet all the duties of a pastor until she takes this beam out of her own eyeMatt 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Matt 7:4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Matt 7:5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. . All through my classes it was an obstacle for her, no one else, to overcome. I allow no one to report anything to me against her and did not know she was belied. But this we all must share to a greater or less extent. I regetted Corrected: regretted the movement made in severing the membership of the first church in your city. I never was responsible for a single movement in all that was done I was inforned Corrected: informed that Mrs Linscott reported me as guiding it, but this was absolutely false. I obstinately refused to do so. And now I must again say that I know of no one at liberty to take your pastorate except Mr. Linscott and if his wife would leave him to God's direction I think he would do well for he did well in DenverEditorial Note: Denver, Colorado..

With much love to Mrs. Wickersham and yourself–
Mother
MBG Eddy

Mr. Frye sends love & Dr. Eddy would if here

 
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