Accession: L11043
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to John F. Linscott, November 5, 1892
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: John F. Linscott 
Date: November 5, 1892
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined paper from Concord, New Hampshire.
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Your last letterEditorial Note: Possibly 164AP1.28.042. was par excellence I rejoice in the fullness of your joyJohn 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. John 16:24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. .

You are like a bird skimming the air, your wings are not wearyIsa 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. .

Do not engage in any way that will hinder you when I call, as per hinted, for the Bostonians. You in the BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts pulpit, Judge Hanna in the Editor's chairEditorial Note: Editor of The Christian Science Journal is my choice carried out so far as it can be at present.

I have a church started As Written: startted on the Rock viz. universal Truth, universal membership, the liberty of the sons of God, and the brotherhood of manEditorial Note: Eddy uses these phrases in various places in her published writings..

Every organization, every educational measure civil and religiousAs Written:religeous, I have founded in Christian Science on a purely original plan– for God, not man, has suggested it to me.

If dear Ellen is contented in ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois it is the place for her. I was not influential in her leaving there and am sure her return is wise-

I had occasion to write a letter for the Church in Boston last week, to be read at a special meeting to be called at once, of which this was the substance Stop quarreling even a little, leave the question of "the upper most seatMatt 23:6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, " out of your affections, fasten them on God, and the cross, and be willing to suffer for Him or you can never reign with HimII Tim 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: . Adding, if this be not accomplished stop the dear patient contributors sending you any more funds for God will never let you build on sandMatt 7:26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: Matt 7:27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. , a church on the land that I have given you. This will stop the high tides (for a season) of M.A.M. and let in the living watersJohn 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. .

With the Christ love
Mary B. G. Eddy
L11043
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

Your last letterEditorial Note: Possibly 164AP1.28.042. was par excellence I rejoice in the fullness of your joyJohn 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. John 16:24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. .

You are like a bird skimming the air, your wings are not wearyIsa 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. .

Do not engage in any way that will hinder you when I call, as per hinted, for the Bostonians. You in the BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts pulpit, Judge Hanna in inAs Written:in the Editor's chairEditorial Note: Editor of The Christian Science Journal is my choice so far carried out so far as it can be at present.

I have a church startted Corrected: started on the Rock viz. universal Truth, universal membership, the liberty of the sons of God, and the brotherhood of manEditorial Note: Eddy uses these phrases in various places in her published writings..

Every organization, every educational measure civil and religeousCorrected:religious, I have founded in Christian Science on a purely original plan– for God, not man, has suggested it to me.

If dear Ellen is contented in ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois it is the place for her. I was not influential in her leaving there and am sure her return is wise-

I had occasion to write a letter for the Church in Boston last week, to be read at a special meeting to be called at once, of which this was the substance Stop quarreling even a little, leave the question of "the upper most seatMatt 23:6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, " out of your affections, fasten them on God, and the cross, and be willing to suffer for Him or you can never reign with HimII Tim 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: . Adding, if this be not accomplished stop the dear patient contributors sending you any more funds for God will never let you build on sandMatt 7:26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: Matt 7:27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. , a church on the land that I have given you. This will stop the high tides (for a season) of M.A.M. and let in the living watersJohn 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. .

With the Christ love
Mary B. G. Eddy
 
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