Accession: L13411
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Julia Field-King, April 21, 1894
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Julia Field-King 
Date: April 21, 1894
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
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My dear Student

Yours at hand. I decline to receive your munificent offering only because it would be wrong for me to do it, under the circumstances. The virginity of Jesus' mother is a cardinal point of Christian Science. I did not know your views until after my invitation for you to contribute to our Church fund, or I would not have written as I did. SometimeAs Written:Some time, dear one, you will grow to a higher sense of Divine Science, and meantime I am as ever your loving teacher

L13411
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
My dear Student

Yours at hand. I decline to receive your munificent offering only because it would be wrong for me to do it, under the circumstances. The virginity of Jesus' mother is a cardinal point of Christian Science. I did not know your views until after my invitation for you to contribute to our Church fund, or I would not have written as I did. Some timeCorrected:Sometime, dear one, you will grow to a higher sense of Divine Science, and meantime I am as ever your loving teacher

 
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