Letters September 17, 1904 Issue

Letters to our Leader

with contributions from Margaret J. Bishop, Julia Ruggles, Lloyd B. Coate, Harriet M. Martin, Alice E. Lyons

Littleton, N. H., August 19, 1904.

My Dear Mrs. Eddy:—While spending the summer in this your native state, I want to thank you for the recent By-law on refraining from membership in organizations which exclude either sex. It would be difficult to state accurately the far-seeing wisdom of this By-law. It reaches forth with loving justice beyond the present ranks of Christian Scientists to meet a mighty need. It points to the near future when the women of this land will cease to be the taxed, wage-earning, but unrepresented portion of this justice-loving American people. Then will the educated intelligence among men and women govern this land, as at present it does the churches of our movement, all over the world. The wisdom that spake through you to ordain that the Sunday Lesson-Sermon should be delivered by man and woman, should be recognized as having again uttered her voice in this By-law. It rejoices the hearts of all Christian Scientists that such a by-law is possible, for it gives proof that your ability to lead this movement is vigorous with spiritual and physical well-being, and that your foresight is undimmed; that your counsel is not for your own benefit, nor yet only for the good of the Christian Scientist of to-day, but for those of the morrow,—for it is evident that you obey this command, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding."

Much love and grateful appreciation fill this letter, and I know that you will find them.

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