Accession: L09586
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Augusta E. Stetson / Carol Norton, March 25, 1894
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Augusta E. Stetson,  Carol Norton 
Date: March 25, 1894
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
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CONCORD, New HampshireAs Written:N. H., March 25 '94
Mrs. Stetson and Mr. Norton
My dear student, and Mr. Norton

Do not I warn you present the petition, you enclosed to me, it is an evidence of weakness and will injure our CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science.. An evidence that is false, for we have no need of clemency on the score of religious toleration That is in our constitutional Bill of Rights. It dishonorsAs Written:dishons the dignified grounds on which I have founded Christian Science. Also, you have no moral or recognized right to draw my students into such a gross error as this. You would resent such an encroachment from another on your regulation of your own students— [*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript.

In haste Affectionately
Mary Baker Eddy

[*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript.I have no fears whatever of the passage of any law that can injure Christian Science and only fear the dishonorAs Written:dishon that comes from unwise measures taken by students. Christian Scientists have a better remedy than material means for error. MB Eddy

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CONCORD, N. H.Expanded:New Hampshire, March 25 '94
Mrs. Stetson and Mr. Norton
My dear student, and Mr. Norton

Do not I warn you present the petition, you enclosed to me, it is an evidence of weakness and will injure our CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science.. An evidence that is false, for we have no need of clemency on the score of religious toleration That is in our constitutional Bill of Rights. It dishonsExpanded:dishonors the dignified grounds on which I have founded Christian Science. Also, you have no moral or recognized right to draw my students into such a gross error as this. You would resent such an encroachment from another on your regulation of your own students— [*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript.

In haste Affectionately
Mary Baker Eddy

N. B[*]Archival Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript.I have no fears whatever of the passage of any law that can injure Christian Science and only fear the dishonExpanded:dishonor that comes from unwise measures taken by students. Christian Scientists have a better remedy than thismaterial means for error. MB Eddy

 
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The cause of Christian Science. A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript. A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript.