Accession: L13283
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Frank L. Phalen, December 5, 1897
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Frank L. Phalen 
Date: December 5, 1897
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
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CONCORD, N. H. Dec. 5, 1897.
Concord.
Rev. Mr. Phalan.
My dear Sir:

Accept my thanks for Sermon.

Pope writes

Small drafts intoxicate the brain But drinking largely sobers us again

Editorial Note: This is an allusion to "An Essay on Criticism," a poem written in 1711 by Alexander Pope (1688-1744).

Please read that last topic in "Miscellaneous WritingsEditorial Note: Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy" "How to Understand Science and Health." Also see "The Corporeal and Incorporeal Savior" in same VolumeAs Written:Vol. also the Christian Science platform commencing on page 225, Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

I greatly appreciate the excellence of your Sermon but beg to say, even our Master's agony was not sufficient to cause him to forget his mother in that last supreme momentJohn 19:25 ¶Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of
Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. John 19:26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! John 19:27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

Jesus was not God, Mary was not God, both were seen in finite forms. The Infinite alone is God; and we cannot see His form. To my understanding the gender of God is masculine feminine and neuter and God is quite as much Mother as Father Your art Mary I prefer to the creedal. Alas! what mistakes creed and dogma, gods and goddesses As Written: godesses have entailed. Let the Thinker of today As Written: to-day do his duty to mankind

Very respectfully
Mary Baker Eddy
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CONCORD, N. H. Dec. 5, 1897.
Concord.
Rev. Mr. Phalan.
My dear Sir:

Accept my thanks for Sermon.

Pope writes

Small drafts intoxicate the brain But drinking largely sobers us again

Editorial Note: This is an allusion to "An Essay on Criticism," a poem written in 1711 by Alexander Pope (1688-1744).

Please read that last topic in "Miscellaneous WritingsEditorial Note: Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy" "How to uUnderstand Science and Health." aAlso see "The Corporeal and Incorporeal Savior" in same Vol.Expanded:Volume also the Christian Science platform commencing on page 225, Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

I greatly appreciate the excellence of your Sermon but beg to say, even our mMaster's agony was not sufficient to cause him to forget his mother in that last supreme momentJohn 19:25 ¶Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of
Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. John 19:26 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! John 19:27 Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

Jesus was not God, Mary was not God, both were seen in finite forms. The Infinite alone is God; and we cannot see His form. To my understanding the gender of God is masculine feminine and neuter and God is quite as much Mother as Father Your art Mary I prefer to the creedal. Alas! what mistakes creed and dogma, gods and godesses Corrected: goddesses have entailed. Let the Thinker of to-day Corrected: today do his duty to mankind

Very respectfully
Mary Baker Eddy
 
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This is an allusion to "An Essay on Criticism," a poem written in 1711 by Alexander Pope (1688-1744). Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy