Accession: V00807
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Cynthia C. Childs, February 23, 1884 - archivist estimate
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Cynthia C. Childs 
Date: February 23, 1884 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Letterpress copy of a letter handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy.
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Your scurrilous As Written: scurrillous lettersEditorial Note: See 025B.10.011 and 025B.10.012. betray your real character, and if continued may call me out to speak the facts that I, to save those you say I have tried to injure have hitherto withheld. I have forgiven the one you refer to, seventy times seven,Matt 18:21 ¶Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Matt 18:22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. and would have done it again but the Church and Association. I would not have broken up again by the same cause. I have the letters of Mrs. Choate requesting me to get the evidence from those in the Association and Church As Written: church and have it shown her. I did it as she directed and in all I ever did to her, to you, or any one since I have been in this place of solemn trust has been done as I would be done by. This you know and she knows and I have no further care of the matter. The worst is your own in your attempts to injure me to whom you both owe a lifelong As Written: life long gratitude

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Your scurrillous Corrected: scurrilous lettersEditorial Note: See 025B.10.011 and 025B.10.012. betray your real character, and if continued may call me out to speak the facts that I, to save those you say I have tried to injure have hitherto withheld. I have forgiven the one you refer to, seventy times seven,Matt 18:21 ¶Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Matt 18:22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. and would have done it again but the Church and Association. I would not have broken up again by the same cause. I have the letters of Mrs. Choate requesting me to get the evidence from those in the Association and church Corrected: Church and have it shown her. I did it as she directed and in all I ever did to her, to you, or any one since I have been in this place of solemn trust has been done as I would be done by. This you know and she knows and I have no further care of the matter. The worst is your own in your attempts to injure me to whom you both owe a life long Corrected: lifelong gratitude

 
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