Accession: L14465
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Septimus J. Hanna, March 8, 1894
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Septimus J. Hanna 
Date: March 8, 1894
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined Pleasant View stationery from Concord, New Hampshire.
Archival Note: This letter includes an archivist notation of "1894" and a notation in unknown handwriting. The envelope for this letter is included.
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Beloved onesEditorial Note: Septimus J. Hanna and Camilla A. Hanna

I write once more to refute the purposes of pride and rivalryAs Written:rivelry Mr. Hardy is far from being an immoral man. He is excentric and not always wise, but he is a pure-minded fine man. I want you to publish his sermons. He and dear Mrs Leavitt have done much for our causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science.. Sheer envy of Sarah Cross's tried to put her down, but God sustained her gloriously. She is a lovely character.

Again Mrs. Otterson is one of the most honest, strict Christian Scientists there is in our field todayAs Written:to day. And God in His own good time will abundantly bless her and shut the mouth of her slanderers. I am disgusted with the "Lord Lord" and pious countenances As Written: countinances of slanderers. I have had more debris to shovel out of their paths than from the ways of the open sinners. May God give me the true disciples, and we build on the RockMatt 7:24 ¶Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: Matt 7:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. . I am patient with the workers even that are making awful mistakes and love them. But if all would learn as quickly as you did their errors my joy would be great and lasting. For each one of us must at some time behold ourselves as in a glassJames 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: James 1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. . Then we are ready to grow, and will grow so long as the recollection of that reflection remains fresh in our minds.

With great love to Camilla, and to yourself — I say rejoice with me over the Dr. He has seen himself and is regenerated, his sweetest of all natures now dominates


62 Boylston St., Room 686,
Boston. Mass.

CONCORD N. H.
MAR 8 1894
Handshift:UnknownMarch 8th/94
L14465
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Beloved onesEditorial Note: Septimus J. Hanna and Camilla A. Hanna

I write once more to refute the purposes of pride and rivelryCorrected:rivalry Mr. Hardy is far from being an immoral man. He is excentric and not always wise, but he is a pure-minded fine man. I want you to publish his sermons. He and dear Mrs Leavitt have done much for our causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science.. Sheer envy of Sarah Cross's tried to put her down, but God sustained her gloriously. She is a lovely character.

Again Mrs. Otterson is one of the most honest, strict Christian Scientists there is in our field to dayCorrected:today. And God in His own good time will abundantly bless her and shut the mouth of her slanderers. I am disgusted with the "Lord Lord" and pious countinances Corrected: countenances of a slanderers. I have had more debris to shovel out of their paths than from the ways of the open sinners. May God give me the true disciples, and we build on the RockMatt 7:24 ¶Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: Matt 7:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. . I am patient with the workers even that are making awful mistakes and love them. But if all would learn as quickly as you did their errors my joy would be great and lasting. For each one of us must at some time behold ourselves as in a glassJames 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: James 1:24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. . Then we are ready to grow, and will grow so long as the recollection of that reflection remains fresh in our minds.

With great love to Camilla, I say and to yourself — I say rejoice with me over the Dr. He has seen himself and is regenerated, his sweetest of all natures now dominates


62 Boylston St., Room 686,
Boston. Mass.

CONCORD N. H.
MAR 8 1894
Handshift:UnknownMarch 8th/94
 
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