Accession: V00868
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Julia S. Bartlett, February 23, 1885
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Julia S. Bartlett 
Date: February 23, 1885
Manuscript Description: Letterpress copy of a letter handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy.
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J. S. Bartlett
Feb. 23 1885
Dear Student

If it has been your duty in the past to stay to help God's causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. and me who have it most at heart, it is also your duty to comply with the order of carrying out this work in the College instead of making me suffer from your wilful rejection, tearing down my rules that your conduct had obliged me to make etc. Etc.

Now this wrong has been seen by you and confessed, then you go right on to do over again what you have was wrong and encourage this blindness in others.

You agreed to meet the duties of College service, then when I need them attended to, and the cause will suffer most from neglecting them, you are carried by mesmerism and your own motive to abuse all human sympathy in your treatment of me, and give the cause the pull back that you do and did last SundayAs Written:sunday

Next you justify all this wrong and try to cover it from your own sight and other people's. This is an accumulating sin that will find you outNum 32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out. You tell me you tell your students they must study with me Then when they come to me without my Thinking of them and make an agreement with me to come and I tell you of this the next thing their mind is changed. what has done it I know what and so do you You have stayed in the College long enough to benefit yourself When you could benefit me by staying you go and go because I want you to unless you will do your duty here. You know I need you, you know it is your duty to stay and help the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science., then why do you go? Because you won’t As Written: wont stay and do your duty in the house You need have no fear that I shall call you back, the only reason I did it before was for your sake and with the hope you had Christianity As Written: christianity enough to do your duty to me at last. But you go at last, after all I have done to save you, just as Mrs Rice went in the name of God and doing all this wrong I fear for your future and you have reason to, for this self-justification under sin

your faithful teacher
M B G E
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J. S. Bartlett
Feb. 23 1885
Dear Student

If it has been your duty in the past to stay to help God's causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. and me who have it most at heart, it is also your duty to comply with the order of carrying out this work in the College instead of making me suffer from your wilful rejection, tearing down my rules that your conduct had obliged me to make etc. Etc.

Now this wrong has been seen by you and confessed, then you go right on to do over again what you have was wrong and encourage this blindness in others.

You agreed to meet the duties of College service, then when I need them attended to, and the cause will suffer most from neglecting them, you are carried by mesmerism and your own motive to abuse all human sympathy in your treatment of me, and give the cause the pull back that you do and did last sundayCorrected:Sunday

Next you justify all this wrong and try to cover it from your own sight and other people's. This is an accumulating sin that will find you outNum 32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out. You tell me you tell your students they must study with me Then when they come to me without my [?] Unclear or illegible  Thinking of them and make an agreement with me to come and I tell you of this the next thing their mind is changed. what has done it I know what and so do you You have stayed in the College long enough to benefit yourself When you could benefit me by staying you go and go because I want you to unless you will do your duty here. You know I need you, you know it is your duty to stay and help the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science., then why do you go? Because you wont Corrected: won’t stay and do your duty in the house You need have no fear that I shall call you back, the only reason I did it before was for your sake and with the hope you had christianity Corrected: Christianity enough to do your duty to me at last. But you go at last, after all I have done to save you, just as Mrs Riceand went in the name of God and doing all this wrong I fear for your future and you have reason to, for this self-justification under sin

your faithful teacher
M B G E
 
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