Accession: L12782
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Lizzie L Filbert and John P. Filbert, March 9, 1889
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Lizzie L Filbert  John P. Filbert 
Date: March 9, 1889
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on Massachusetts Metaphysical College stationery.
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Your kind letter thanking me for my face, and saying I seldom answer your letters Causes me to address you first and afterwards your husband.

Nothing but lack of time prevents my letters. I have so large a correspondence it is impossible to answer all hence my good students who need me less than some weak ones, I neglect. Many thanks for the photo of your husband and my baby and your dear children

Mr. Filbert

My dear Student,

Your letter relative to taking the student you named obliges me to call your attention to my public notice that I had quit receiving students whom I had not prepared in a Primary Course into the Normal Class. This step was taken after much deliberation and a certain conscious knowledge that I was doing wrong to receive them into the class from which I send forth teachers of Christian Science, unless. I had prepared them. This lady may be and no doubt is a very promising student

I want and will have more thorough teachers. It is doing an awful injustice to mankind to give them a wrong start, or an insufficient knowledge, and send them out on suc h an awful responsibility as to teach the life and demonstration of Jesus by which the sick are [*]Gap: word.Reason: page rip.be healed Now I earnestly admonish you never to permit a student of yours to teach until he has been taught how to teach and by the one whom God, not man, has appointed to teach this infinite Truth

I do not want to teach, I am tired, tired, of teaching and being the slave of so many minds. but I had rather there would never be a teacher but the Bible and Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy than that such poor teaching should go on. Had you fully endorsed at first all that you were taught it would have been much easier for you now. For you, my most honored As Written: honord student, have had to learn out of my class what if you had accepted in it would have saved you much. It is only a question of time and suffering with all, when they shall all see, that all I have taught them is true, and must be learned to be true.

Most truly and affectionately your Teacher
M B G Eddy

N B Accept my thanks for your appreciation of the charm I sent with my face in it. I felt it was due, to thus notice my best As Written: bst and most faithful workers in the vineyard

M B G Eddy

 
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Your kind letter thanking me for my face, and saying I seldom answer your letters Causes me to address you first and afterwards your husband.

Nothing but lack of time prevents my letters. I have so large a correspondence it is impossible to answer all hence my good students who need me less than some weak ones, I neglect. Many thanks for the photo of your husband and my baby and your dear children

Mr. Filbert

My dear Student,

Your letter relative to taking the student you named obliges me to call your attention to my public notice that I had quit receiving students whom I had not prepared in a Primary Course into the Normal Class. This step was taken after much deliberation and a certain conscious knowledge that I was doing wrong to receive them into the class from which I send forth teachers of Christian Science, unless. I had prepared them. This lady may be and no doubt is a very promising student

I want and will have more thorough teachers. It is doing an awful injustice to mankind to give them a wrong start, or an insufficient knowledge, and send them out on suc h an awful responsibility as to teach the life and demonstration of Jesus by which the sick are [*]Gap: word.Reason: page rip.be healed Now I earnestly admonish you never to permit a student of yours to teach until he has been taught how to teach and by the one whom God, not man, has appointed to teach this infinite Truth

I do not want to teach, I am tired, tired, of teaching and being the slave of so many minds. but I had rather there would never be a teacher but the Bible and Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy than that such poor teaching should go on. Had you fully endorsed at first all that you were taught it would have been much easier for you now. For you, my most honored As Written: honord student, have had to learn out of my class what if you had accepted in it would have saved you much. It is only a question of time and suffering with all, when they shall all see, that all I have taught them is true, and must be learned to be true.

Most truly and affectionately your Teacher
M B G Eddy

N B Accept my thanks for your appreciation of the charm I sent with my face in it. I felt it was due, to thus notice my best As Written: bst and most faithful workers in the vineyard

M B G Eddy

 

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