Boston, Mass., April 2, 1904.

Rev. Mary Baker Eddy.

Beloved Teacher and Leader:—On the return of the Easter season our thought instinctively turns to you with a deep and grateful sense of love,—to you as the only one who has enabled us to understand in a proper degree the true meaning of the Easter-tide. It is to God and to you we owe whatever we have seen and proved of the Scriptures and the meaning of the resurrection.

We hope that your heart will be refreshed and cheered by the consciousness which must be yours of the enlightenment that has been given to the world by your teachings, life, and demonstrations.

Lovingly your students,
Ira O. Knapp,
William B. Johnson,
Joseph Armstrong,
Stephen A. Chase,
Archibald McLellan.

Concord, N. H., April 3, 1904.

Beloved One:—Gratitude to thee, who hast rolled away the stone from our grave of sense and given us the resurrected life. The day dawns. The nets are being cast on the right side.

How good of you to give us the dear poem that appeared in Thursday's Patriot. It was indeed Love's springtime greeting and has gladdened many a heart.

I rejoice over the wonderful testimony of the "Uncanonical Gospels" of which Mr. Frederick Dixon wrote you, as given to us in the Sentinel. What marvelous confirmatory evidence of the reality of your divine revelation is being uncovered in these progressive days.

I thank you for sharing with your children in each number of the Sentinel your precious letters. They are helping us to be more loving and true.

You know, perhaps, that we unite with our Unitarian friends in supplying the beautiful Easter decorations of the church. Is it not a happy omen?

Lovingly,
Irving.

Washington, D. C., March 19, 1904.

Rev. Mary Baker Eddy.

Beloved Teacher:—You will rejoice to know that our church, last evening, unanimously voted to unite the two reading rooms in Washington by invitation from First Church, and I am chairman of the committee to arrange details. All feel it to be a long step towards unity in every sense of the word, which will come as we are ready for it, and demonstrate it by our own love and good deeds. God is with us, thank Him, and thank you for it.

Our dear Cause in Washington was never so prosperous and firmly established as now, and the unity of thought and action exemplified, and the impersonal love expressed by all is something extremely gratifying.

It is with a heart full of loving gratitude to you, my dear Teacher, that I write these good things, because it is by your love, self-abnegation, toil, and purity that they have been possible. Lovingly yours,

Edward E. Norwood.

Brooklyn, N. Y., March 31, 1904.

Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Concord, N. H.

Beloved Leader:—As the resurrection celebration draws near and we are reminded of its peculiar significance, our thought turns in loving gratitude to you for the many sacrifices and vast achivements that only love, loyalty, and obedience to God could accomplish. We know it will cheer you to learn of the increased unity, brotherhood, and steady advance of the cause of Christ in this field. The signs of spiritual awakening and arising from the dead were never so favorable as at present.

There is much good healing being done, and we will speak of one case which came to us recently. About five weeks ago a lady was lying in the hospital here and the physicians said her only chance for recovery was to have one of her limbs amputated. This she refused to allow, and her thought turned to Christian Science as a possible means of escape. After a few days' treatment she was removed to her home, and in less than four weeks was entirely healed.

Lovingly your followers,
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Van Ostrand.

Ottawa, March 29, 1904.

Beloved Teacher:—Will you further bless me by accepting the enclosed Easter gift towards your home church? Not as a tithe or as a thousandth part of what I owe you, but in remembrance of the sacred associations in my life with Concord. I find as time passes that my sense of gratitude and love to you grows larger, and I would not have it otherwise. That must always remain a debt unpaid.

In this connection I recently had to me a beautiful example. I had retired for the night, but instead of sleep, there came to me a flood of thankfulness and gratitude to God for all that your beautiful life is and has been to me and mine, and to the whole world.

I think I realized more clearly than ever before the glorious import of that life and work, and the inestimable privilege of being one of your students. From this "mount of vision" the telephone called me for help for a suffering one, and as the messenger told of the symptoms and suffering of the patient, my consciousness was so filled with gratitude and love, that I was able for the time being to know that divine Love and its idea is, and there is naught else beside.

I was not surprised next morning to be told that almost at once after asking for help the patient was free.

May all the blessings that you have bestowed upon others, return tenfold to you at this Easter time. My husband and children join me in love.

I am your grateful and obedient student,
Elizabeth Higman.

Sunny Bank, Manhasset, L. I., March 28, 1904.

Mrs. Eddy.

Beloved Leader:—In an hour of fear, doubt, and anxiety, when hope waned, and when the odiousness of unbridled sin nearly overwhelmed my dawning faith in true Science, I had such a demonstration of the allness of God that I thought perhaps it would rejoice your heart to hear it. I visited my old home last spring, and while there an old servant who has been in our family for over fifty years was stricken down with a seeming attack from the heart, head, and stomach.

The collapse took place in my room and her heart-rending appeal to save her brought to me such a sense of utter helplessness that I cried aloud, "I cannot do it." when instantly came the realization of Truth, and again I cried, "No, I cannot, but Christ can, and I am here to declare it;" and I did, and, dear Leader, that woman was healed!

Do you wonder that I love Science and consequently love you when I know that it was the revelation of Christian Science which enabled me to declare Life to the utter destruction of death? I am poor in expressions of gratitude, I feel that my life must be the expression of my love and my gratitude to God and to you.

Lovingly,
Ida Ruth Stewart.