Accession: V01036
Editorial Title: Mary Baker Eddy to Silas J. Sawyer, January 19, 1887
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Silas J. Sawyer 
Date: January 19, 1887 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Letterpress copy of a letter handwritten by Mary Baker Eddy.
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By all means resist the devilJames 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. or return at once to MilwaukeeEditorial Note: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Instead As Written: Istead of a watchman that calls out in danger your eyes and eyes are becoming dim and the Walls of Zion are left to the besieging As Written: beseging party

I know your good intent but I have felt for the last three weeks your danger and now like a faithful sentinel I call out to you as in the beginning As Written: begining of my letter One is mesmerizing the other the blind is leading the blind and you will all be in the ditchMatt 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Luke 6:39 And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? prepared for you by Plunket who is engineering this whole matter unless you rouse yourself and do directly and at once Right. Dissolve AssociationAs Written:Asso. Organization and organize As Written: organiz a Church Appoint a CommitteeAs Written:Com, to carry out details Go in with no students or patients of Plunkett's As Written: Plunkets and permit them not enter your assemblies

Be loyal to God and to her Whom He hath appointed, by strict obedience thereto,

I know how, and what, I would tell you what only you may feel wounded

But once you told me of this siren As Written: syren song and the awful influence it had on the singer then you could see it.

Now have your wife with you, Go to her, it is better, than that you remain in NewAs Written:N. York, unless you stand and having done all standEph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. againstAs Written:agaist the silent inroads being made on your spiritual sense of what to do and how to do it

As ever AffectionatelyAs Written:Affec'ly
M B G Eddy
V01036
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

By all means resist the devilJames 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. or return at once to MilwaukeeEditorial Note: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Istead Corrected: Instead of a watchman that calls out in danger your eyes and eyes are becoming dim and the Walls of Zion are left to the beseging Corrected: besieging party

I know your good intent but I have felt for forAs Written:for the last three weeks your danger and now like a faithful sentinel I call out to you as in the begining Corrected: beginning of my letter One is mesmerizing the other the blind is leading the blind and you will all be in t [?] Unclear or illegible he ditchMatt 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Luke 6:39 And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? prepared for you by Plunket who is engineering this whole matter unless unlessAs Written:unless you rouse yourself and do directly and at once [?] Unclear or illegible Right. Dissolve Asso.Expanded:Association Organization and organiz Corrected: organize a Church Appoint a ComExpanded:Committee, to carry out details Go in with no students or patients of Plunkets Corrected: Plunkett's and permit them not [?] Unclear or illegible enter your assemblies

Be loyal to God and to her Whom He hath appointed, by strict obedience thereto,

I know how, and what, I would tell you what only you may feel wounded

But once you told me of this syren Corrected: siren song and the awful influence it had on the singer then you could see it.

Now have your wife with you, gGo to her, it is better, than that you remain in N.Expanded:New York, unless you stand and having done all standEph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. agaistCorrected:against the silent inroads being made on your spiritual sense of what to do and how to do it

As ever Affec'lyCorrected:Affectionately
M B G Eddy
 
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