Accession: L08524
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Ruth B. Ewing, September 4, 1901
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Ruth B. Ewing 
Date: September 4, 1901
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
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Beloved Student

I told you to teach your students to defend themselves from malpractice I hope you knew what I meant I did not mean to teach students to heal anyoneAs Written:any one personally in order to do this No indeed, that is not the way; that would be mesmerism. I meant for them to be taught just as my books teach how to save themselves and others according to Truth not error. You can argue that no one can hurt you that is right

Much harm may be done by ignorance as well as malice Never teach a student to try to hurt another in their own self defence or in order to help themselves from being hurt for that is doing evil that good might comeRom 3:8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just. It took me many years to learn never to make a mistake in trying to do right but to guard against any possibility of doing this I learned to teach all not to be personal in defence but only to defend themselves against evil sin disease and death but not to personalize in this anyoneAs Written:any one. Remember this

With love
M B Eddy
L08524
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Beloved Student s

I told you to teach your students to defend themselves from malpractice I hope you knew what I meant I did not mean to teach students to heal any oneCorrected:anyone personally in order to do this No indeed, that is not the way; that would be mesmerism. I meant for them to be taught just as my books teach how to save themselves and others according to Truth not error. You can argue that no one can hurt you that is right

Much harm may be done by ignorance as well as malice Never teach a student to try to hurt another in their own self defence inor in order to help themselves from being hurt for that is doing evil that good might comeRom 3:8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just. It took me many years to learn never to make a mistake in trying to do right but to guard against any possibility of doing this I learned to teach all not to be personal in defence but only to defend themselves against evil sin disease and death but not to not personalize in this any oneCorrected:anyone. Remember this

With love
M B Eddy
 
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