Letters to our Leader

Lisbon, N. H., November 13, 1905.

My Dear Mrs. Eddy:—It may be of interest to you to learn that at the Sixth Annual Conference of the Vermont Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, held with the Marquis de Lafayette Chapter of Montpelier, Vt., October 3, it was voted to place a memorial tablet to the memory of those Revolutionary heroes, Seth Warner and your ancestor Remember Baker, on the Isle La Motte in Lake Champlain. It seems that a committee had previously been appointed to investigate the matter, and to learn what they could about the necessary details of such a memorial. This committee made a favorable report and it was voted to erect the tablet during the coming year.

Most lovingly yours,
C. C. Moore.


Boston, Mass., December 19, 1905.

Beloved Leader and Teacher:—The New Year approaches. It has in store, I am sure, many blessings for you and for all God's children. I am, I trust, growing in gratitude for all that has come to me through your teaching. Before, I had only an unknown God, a far-away heaven, a distant Christ, and practically no Bible. The text-book, together with your countless private helps in times of trouble, have revealed to me in great measure, comparatively, the God of Love, the Principle of being; have opened out tangible visions of the heaven "at hand;" taught me that the healing and saving Christ is with us "alway, even unto the end," and made the Bible, to me, a book of light, and Life, and Love.

What has thus been done for me, has been done for many thousands, and the numbers are daily increasing, Why, then, should not your heart be comforted? Why should you not "rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory"? This is your right divine.

Last evening I lectured in Phillips Brooks Hall at Harvard. It was the first lecture under the By-law. The attendance was gratifying to the young men interested, and I sincerely trust the occasion will accomplish its appointed good. It seems to me most significant. I have in mind some interesting incidents of my trip which is just closing, but time forbids their recital now. Some of them I know will gratify you.

With one more lecture in Illinois my year closes, and then "homeward bound," expecting to reach there Christmas eve. With love and gratitude,
Your student,
S. J. Hanna.


Denver, Col., December 7, 1905.

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

Beloved Leader:—We are to-day sending to Mr. Chase, Treasurer, five thousand dollars, our Thanksgiving offering to The Mother Church Building Fund. We esteem this a blessed privilege, and are striving to obey the loving admonition in your letter to the Denver Church, as published in "Miscellaneous Writings," to "Exercise more faith in God and His spiritual means and methods, than in man and his material ways and means, of establishing the Cause of Christian Science." Our church is united in the effort to increase its contributions to The Mother Church Building Fund, until there is no longer an opportunity to give.

Gratefully and lovingly,
First Church of Christ, Scientist,
E. J. Yetter,
Ella Peck Sweet,
Clara Schrader Streeter,
Lawrence Donald,
John C. Ryan,
Joy E. R. Zint,
Martha O. McConaughy.
Official Board.

New York, December 16, 1905.

To Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy,
Pleasant View, Concord, N. H.

Beloved Leader:—No words can adequately express the deep sense of sincere gratitude with which my heart is overflowing for your wonderful message, entitled "Christmas as in Christian Science," given to Christendom through the columns of the New York World of December 10, 1905.

I am earnestly striving to so assimilate its great truths as to "bring forth fruits" "by signs following." I was enabled to indeed praise God by witnessing a case of instantaneous physical healing through an enlightened sense of the words, "An eternal Christmas would make matter an alien save as phenomenon, and matter would reverentially withdraw itself before Mind." I thank God that through your teachings and life I am enabled to perceive even a portion of a moiety of the meaning of your marvelous messages which come to bless tired humanity. I owe all to the learning to know God aright, as revealed in Christian Science through our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

Humbly and lovingly your student's student,
Ida Gibson Whitney.


Hackensack, N. J., December 7, 1905.

To Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy,
Pleasant View, Concord, N. H.

Our Dear Leader:—With loving hearts the members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hackensack, New Jersey, wish to send to you a message of gratitude and loyalty. After holding meetings as an association, for nine months of rapid growth, our church was organized December 7, 1904. Healing has been the proof of our growth throughout, and the ability of those just coming to a knowledge of the truth to demonstrate its healing power has been particularly noticeable. There is one great song of gratitude for all the blessings received, and the true understanding of God gained in Science and Health. The interest the people of this place have shown is the result of the healing, and has brought our present membership up to twenty-six. The Sunday School, which started with two, now numbers twenty.

In a rising consciousness of love and unity in our branch, we recognize our relation to The Mother Church, and with one voice would assure you of the gladness it gives us to have this opportunity of aiding somewhat in this work of building an addition to edifice. Joyously the members and friends of our church and Sunday school send to-day to Mr. Chase a check for eighty dollars, their second contribution to The Mother Church Building Fund; and, on October 4, 1905, seeing the need of greater activity, and lovingly responding thereto, the members voted to send thereafter the total collections of the first Sunday of each month. We know we can prove our gratitude to you only by our faithfulness to the spiritual idea, as taught in our text-book, and, conscious of this, we will, in honesty and humility, press on more earnestly.

Lovingly and loyally,
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hackensack, N. J.
Helen T. Robinson.
Dorothy B. Knudsen.
M. Elizabeth Horton.
John McLean.
W. D. Knudsen.


Jamestown, N. Y.

Dearest Leader:—Here is a Merry Christmas for your "Little Church." I have also given four hundred dollars besides this, and all gained by healing the sick and reforming the sinner.

Lovingly,
Martin F. Jackson.

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