Letters to our Leader

with contributions from O. L. Lofgren, Aimee E. Lundgren, B. H. Norton, Margaret Campbell, Eva Thompson, Effie Andrews

Boston, Mass., December 25, 1903.

Dear Mrs. Eddy.

Beloved Leader:—The enclosed extract from a letter, received on Christmas Eve, I know will interest you, and so I send it with a heart full of gratitude to God, and to the faithful Shepherdess, who so tenderly tends all her flocks, large and small, and has a room in her heart for them all.

I am, with profound reverence and love,
Yours for the sacred Cause,
Aimee E. Lundgren.

Extract from a letter (Translation from Swedish).
Gothenburgh, December 11, 1903.

Dear Miss Lundgren:—Your kind communication, and the required copy of the Journal I had the pleasure of receiving yesterday. As I have access to the Journal here at the library, I do not need it especially for myself. However, requisitions may soon appear from this city, for reasons which I will now mention. Scarcely a month ago an advertisement appeared in the Handelskidningen, with the heading "Christian Science," and containing a request to reply to "Engineer." It was found to be the "German family from Christiania," which you mentioned in your letter. The outcome of my reply was a visit from the "Engineer." They had learned of Christian Science in Berlin, and were seeking congenial persons here. The further consequence was the calling of a meeting. It was here learned that Christian Science was already known to several families. A brother of a Mr. Fredrikson had arrived here a couple of months ago, on a visit from London, where he and his wife are members of Second Church of Christ, Scientist. He had interested some friends, who had since been meeting to study the text-book and other writings. At this meeting about twenty persons were present. It was decided that they should meet every Monday at 8 p.m. in a rented room, and there have now been three meetings. The meetings are commenced and ended with a hymn.... Mr. Bergstrom has read a translation from a paper, Mr. Wallin has addressed us, and I have translated from Science and Health. You see from this, that the matter is already started. But none of the participants are regular adherents of Christian Science. I believe that interest is awakened in the community; I have also learned that a number of families are postponing their uniting with us, until a person fully familiar with the movement and practised in healing will take charge.—O. L. Lofgren.

New York, December 25, 1903.

Our Dear Leader:—My heart fills with gratitude this joyous Christmas morn, in knowing what the real meaning of this grand revelation is bringing to me and mine. No present ever visible to the human eye could give me the happiness that I feel this morning through the understanding that is gradually coming into my consciousness through reading your wonderful book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

Three years ago it was spoken of by a friend who was healed of consumption. I purchased a copy and was healed almost immediately, simply through reading and spiritually grasping its meaning as far as I could, and each day it becomes clearer and clearer. I had suffered for twelve years with indigestion, and from asthma for about four years. I had worn glasses for four years also. All of these ailments left me in about two weeks.

I have never taken a treatment. Truth has been found and revealed through your beautiful words.

To-day my heart is full of thanksgiving to God and to you, as the Discoverer; for this light once seen, in its glorious golden rays, can never be taken from me. Dear Leader, all the love that comes to me, I send to you, to help sustain and aid you in this grand work.

Ever with you, in Christ-truth,
B. H. Norton.

Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy,
Concord, N. H.
[From a little child.]
Concord, N. H., December 24, 1903.

Dear Mrs. Eddy:—I want to tell you a little demonstration. I went to the dentist's to have two teeth filled, and while he was working I said, "God is Love! God is All in all," and repeated the scientific statement of being. And it did not hurt me a bit. We love you so much for telling us about God.

Lovingly,
Margaret Campbell.
Omaha, Neb., December 21, 1903.

Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy.

Dear Leader:—Please accept this small token of love and appreciation from one who has been healed of so-called incurable diseases, such as consumption, catarrh, cavities in the teeth, and muscular rheumatism.

This healing was brought about by three days' reading of the Bible and Science and Health; it being the first I heard or knew of Christian Science.

With much love,
Eva Thompson.

New York, December, 1903.

Beloved Teacher and Leader:—Feeling such a debt of gratitude and love, it has always been a great pleasure, now and again, to send you some personal reminder. It is a sacrifice at this holiday season to take self out of it and let my love to my teacher be expressed this year in a subscription to the building fund of the church in Concord. This love and appreciation grow deeper as the years go on, as I am better able to realize more the marvel of love and patient endurance, beyond human understanding, that has held you firm at your post, holding aloft to a world the truth that must have been true to you, so true that no mortal power has been able to pull down the "standard," even for an instant. Each fresh assault has caused it to radiate with greater glory until even now its beams extend to the uttermost parts of the earth.

May the honest faith, the true understanding, the love that faileth not, still uphold Truth's faithful sentinel and exponent, strengthen and bless our Leader until she is crowned with victory. "Love triumphant over all" is the holiday greeting of one of your loving students.

Lovingly yours,
Effie Andrews.

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