You know what the Rule of the Orthodox Church is, If thy brother offend etcMatt 18:15 ¶Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. Matt 18:16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. Matt 18:17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. Now in all love I say it that this rule is ours in the Church of Christ (Scientist) and that you are a loved member of our Church on Therefore I admonish you that you tell me my fault- before you tell it to others. I did this with you. I do not feel that I have w [?] Unclear or illegible ed you but done you good if you heed my rebuke. You know that I am glad to have you write and teach, and I rejoice at all your prosperity. I bought your pamphlets and have told Mr Frye to sell them every opportunity. I first suggested that you publish your copy. Now I have some rights as well as others. One of these is a copyright, and do you wish to rob me? No! I do not believe that you do. Then what have you against me for telling you of taking my paragraphs and publishing them and reminding you of the injustice of this, to open your eyes to what Mal. Mes. can do to even a good man, if someoneAs Written:some one is not sufficiently friendly to him to tell him— what he is doing on and so talk yet as to arouse him from this fatal spell.
That is all I did and it was a just and Christian motive and doing as I would be done by;― and you will sometime so regard it. We are not commanded As Written: comanded to love our neighbor better than ourselves, although I am doing this daily. Then I only loved you as myselfMark 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. Matt 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. when I did this in justice to myself and to you, and it was right Hoping that you will continue to write and write what is needed at this hour to do justice As Written: justic to one whom you have felt it before a duty to defend for Christ's sake whom she is serving
One more word. I have just received a newspaper article (coming from a student) that contains over a hundred verbatim lines from Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy without reference As Written: refence to that book, and without a quotation mark! This action is going all along the lines
This has always been the programAs Written:programe in Malicious Mesmerism. If I have smart students and they can't beAs Written:cantbe made to forget themselves in any other way they the evil ones set them to plagiarizing my books, knowing that that will arouse most authors, and hoping to make a breech between us in this way. I have been told by the literary good class of people in Boston I was foolish to allow all the plagiarisms that I do, and let men of no education like the one abovenamedAs Written:above named rob me and deceive the public and I say nothing. This I am doing, constantly, but God bids me to do this less than I have done. Why can't myAs Written:cantmy scholars talk their own language as well as other scholars They can, and would but for the evil minds that are suggesting otherwise
I pray God that this hidden tempter be thwartedAs Written:twharted
Most truly