Accession: V00996
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to James E. Brierly, March 7, 1887
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: James E. Brierly 
Date: March 7, 1887
Manuscript Description: Letterpress copy of a letter handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy.
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Do not you see the plagiarism of my bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy in your article, and are you not sensible of the wrong this is doing? If you appropriate As Written: appriate my writings you set an example for others to do it, and shall those writings that God has inspired me with be taken by others and given to the public as their own? You know this is breaking the ten commandmentsEx 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying, Ex 20:2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Ex 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Ex 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Ex 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; Ex 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Ex 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Ex 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: Ex 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: Ex 20:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Ex 20:12 ¶Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Ex 20:13 Thou shalt not kill. Ex 20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. Ex 20:15 Thou shalt not steal. Ex 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Ex 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. — breaking the rules of our Church and Association.

This is the dictation of Maliscious Mesmerism. It is the program As Written: programe carried out by it 20 years.

If they cannot make students abuse me in any other way they will always try to set them to this work. I beg that you open your eyes to this. Remember I had much rather one would take my money without myAs Written:with outmy consent than my writings and it would injure the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. less.

I have some rights in common with others, one of those is a copyrightAs Written:copy right and this I shall protect by law. Hoping you will see this in its true light and do all the good you can in your own words and writings

I am your
Affectionate Teacher
MBG Eddy
V00996
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

Do not you see the plagiarism of my bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy in your article, and are you not sensible of the wrong this is doing? If you appriate Corrected: appropriate my writings you set an example for others to do it, and shall those writings that God has inspired me with be taken by you others and given to the public as your their own? You know this is breaking the ten commandmentsEx 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying, Ex 20:2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Ex 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Ex 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Ex 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; Ex 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Ex 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Ex 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: Ex 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: Ex 20:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Ex 20:12 ¶Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Ex 20:13 Thou shalt not kill. Ex 20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. Ex 20:15 Thou shalt not steal. Ex 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Ex 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. — breaking the rules of our Church and Association.

This is the dictation of Maliscious Mesmerism. It is the programe Corrected: program carried out by it 20 years.

If they cannot make a students abuse me in any other way they will always try to set them to this work. I beg that you open your eyes to this. Remember I had much rather [?] Unclear or illegible one would take my money with outmyCorrected:without my consent than my writings for and it would injure the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. less.

I have some rights in common with others, one of those is a aAs Written:a copy rightCorrected:copyright and this I shall protect by law. Hoping you will see this in its true light and do all the good you can in your own words and writings

I am your
Affectionate Teacher
MBG Eddy
 
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