Accession: L13282
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Frank L. Phalen, November 27, 1897
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Frank L. Phalen 
Date: November 27, 1897
Manuscript Description: Typewritten for Mary Baker Eddy, with a handwritten signature, on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
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Your kind letterEditorial Note: See 117.22.002 is received. It is with pleasure that I note the grandeur of your purposeEditorial Note: In his letter Phalen wrote that he wanted to give some evening sermons or lectures on aspects of modern religious thought and life. He was planning to include Christian Science, and he wanted to be sure he understood it properly, as his intent was not to disparage any religious belief system. as a lecturer in that you esteem the philanthropy and ethics of religion superior to creed and dogma. The world waits for just such sermons both in and out of the pulpit. I may be mistaken but to my apprehension unity and love are the exemplification of Unitarianism, even as the Christ healing is the demonstration of Christian Science. My acquaintance with unitarians has been of a happy sort for their lives have illustrated their religion. I beg to say that to apprehend your wish and meet it by giving you any aid in my power to understand the "true inwardness" of Christian Science I need to converse with you and hope you will not spare me any question that I can answer to this end. If convenient to you I will appoint Tuesday of next week at 1 p.m. or at 5 p.m.

Most truly
Mary Baker Eddy
L13282
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

Your kind letterEditorial Note: See 117.22.002 is received. It is with pleasure that I note the grandeur of your purposeEditorial Note: In his letter Phalen wrote that he wanted to give some evening sermons or lectures on aspects of modern religious thought and life. He was planning to include Christian Science, and he wanted to be sure he understood it properly, as his intent was not to disparage any religious belief system. as a lecturer in that you esteem the philanthropy and ethics of religion superior to creed and dogma. The world waits for just such sermons both in and out of the pulpit. I may be mistaken but to my apprehension unity and love are the exemplicfication of Unitarianism, even as the Christ healing is the demonstration of Christian Science. My acquaintance with unitarians has been of a happy sort for their lives have illustrated their religion. I beg to say that to apprehend your wish and meet it by giving you any aid in my power to understand the "true inwardness" of Christian Science I need to converse with you and hope you will not spare me any question that I can answer to this end. If convenient to you I will appoint Tuesday of next week at 1 p.m. or at 5 p.m.

Most truly
Mary Baker Eddy
 
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See 117.22.002 In his letter Phalen wrote that he wanted to give some evening sermons or lectures on aspects of modern religious thought and life. He was planning to include Christian Science, and he wanted to be sure he understood it properly, as his intent was not to disparage any religious belief system.