Letters January 6, 1906 ISSUE

Letters to our Leader

with contributions from Electa E. Scribner, Mary Baker Eddy, Sudie W. Mewborne, John B. Shoe

Tombstone, Ariz., December 11, 1905.

Our Dear Leader:—Recently one of our little band went to Chihuahua, Mexico, on mining business; and while there looked about for drawn work as gifts for friends. This piece he found in a little adobe house and purchased from the woman who made it, thinking it far too beautiful to stay there unseen.

Three or four Scientists came to the home of this Scientist after the Thanksgiving service, and the work was shown and admired. The wife said, "It is too beautiful to keep here." The Second Reader said, "It is beautiful enough for Mrs. Eddy," and immediately we knew why it was purchased and where it belonged. Will you accept this from the little hand here? It expresses so beautifully the perfect and harmonious thought of one Mind. With this is the gratitude of one healed morally, also of dyspepsia; one healed mentally and morally; one healed,—a nervous wreck, hospital in sight, eyesight restored after wearing glasses twenty years; one healed of dropsy, heart trouble, sight restored; one past three score, who reads Science and Health and his Bible by candle-light without glasses, and many others healed of rheumatism, kidney disease, and numerous other troubles. With it is also the love of twelve children,—the Sunday School,—who are demonstrating nicely, attending school continually instead of being out with the usual ailments.

Our county is one and three fourths the size of Connecticut. Our Second Reader comes forty miles to read on Sunday and teach in the Sunday School. In less than two years we have sold thirty-four copies of Science and Health, and they are scattered all over the mountains and in Mexico. Services are established in the county in Bisbee, Douglas, Naco, as well as famous old Tombstone, and we hope to be organized as churches some day. With much love and gratitude,

Your student's student,
Electa E. Scribner.

Mrs. Eddy's Reply.

Beloved Student:—The above letter is redolent with love, and the embroidered bedspread is the most beautiful thing of the kind I ever saw. But more than all else of earth is your joy-inspiring recital of the good being done in your midst by Christian Science and your faithful labors.

Mary Baker Eddy.

Kinston, N. C., December 3, 1905.
Mrs. Mary B. G. Eddy,
Pleasant View, Concord, N. H.

Beloved Leader:—Knowing that you feel such a loving interest in our beloved Cause and its progress, we felt that perhaps just a few words from us might add something of joy to your cup; this is the only excuse we offer for this trespass on your time. We had an inspiring Thanksgiving service; there were many expressions of gratitude to God for the truth revealed through you, coupled with testimonies of healing. The voluntary offerings for the Building Fund of The Mother Church amounted to sixty-five dollars, making a total of five hundred and sixty dollars from this church. Our little Sunday School, numbering only three regular attendants, has contributed up to date seventy-eight dollars and thirty-four cents. When the call came for funds to enlarge The Mother Church, they immediately decided to devote the amount on hand (a nest-egg for our own building fund), and all the future collections, to the Building Fund of The Mother Church, until there was no further need.

Our church, though small in numbers, is strong in its love and loyalty to you. Though the contribution seems small, every penny is a thank-offering to God, and to one who has not learned that we look to God for our supply, it seems incredible.

With sincere love,
Mrs. Sudie W. Mewborne, Clerk.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Kinston, N.C.

[Telegram.]

Philadelphia, Pa., November 12, 1905.
To Mrs. Mary B. Eddy, Pleasant View.

Dear Mrs. Eddy:—We, the students of the association of Mrs. D. Eloise Brownell, C.S.B., assembled in our annual meeting, unanimously send you our love and gratitude for the benefits received through your teaching. Our earnest prayer and desire is to be loyal to God and to our Leader.

John B. Shoe, Secretary.
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