Accession: L09904
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to M. Bettie Bell, February 25, 1887
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: M. Bettie Bell 
Date: February 25, 1887
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on lined printed Massachusetts Metaphysical College stationery, from Boston, Massachusetts.
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Your grand letterEditorial Note: See 020A.09.021. was like water to the thirsty traveler As Written: traveller on the deserts of Arabia..

I am glad somebody is true and has the CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. at heart as I am sure you have. But my life is laid on the altar As Written: alter to cut me to pieces ad infinitum

Why, why, does not somebody in ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois answers Gills article in Religio Philosophical JournalEditorial Note: The Religio-Philosophical Journal was a spiritualist and mind cure magazine, first published in 1865 in Chicago, Illinois. It ceased publication on April 22, 1905. It published an article highly critical of Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science by William Gill, not long after he severed ties with Christian Science and was expelled from the Christian Scientist Association in early February 1887. Many are there who have been taught by me the wonders and glories of what I have alone discovered and brought through all trials to the wants of man and have they not need to tell the truth of all this when the enemy those whom I have given them my time and treasures are lying so unsparingly about all this But I have no more time to write now Kiss the wee onesEditorial Note: Daisy M. Bell and Elsie N. Bell for me

As ever Yours faithfully
MBG Eddy
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Your grand letterEditorial Note: See 020A.09.021. was like water to the thirsty traveller Corrected: traveler on the deserts of Arabia..

I am glad somebbody is true and has the CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. at heart as I am sure you have. But my life is laid on the alter Corrected: altar to cut me to pieces ad infinitum

Why, why, does not somebody in ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois answers Gills article in Religio Philosophical JournalEditorial Note: The Religio-Philosophical Journal was a spiritualist and mind cure magazine, first published in 1865 in Chicago, Illinois. It ceased publication on April 22, 1905. It published an article highly critical of Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science by William Gill, not long after he severed ties with Christian Science and was expelled from the Christian Scientist Association in early February 1887. Many are there who have been taught by me the wonders and glories of what I have alone discovered and brought through all trials to the wants of man and have they not need to tell the truth of all this when the enemy those whom I have given them my time and treasures are l [?] Unclear or illegible ying so unsparingly about all this But I have no more time to write now Kiss the wee onesEditorial Note: Daisy M. Bell and Elsie N. Bell ffor me

As ever Yours faithfully
MBG Eddy
 
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See 020A.09.021. The cause of Christian Science. The Religio-Philosophical Journal was a spiritualist and mind cure magazine, first published in 1865 in Chicago, Illinois. It ceased publication on April 22, 1905. It published an article highly critical of Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science by William Gill, not long after he severed ties with Christian Science and was expelled from the Christian Scientist Association in early February 1887. Daisy M. Bell and Elsie N. Bell Chicago, Illinois