Editorial December 15, 1906 Issue

INTERESTING LETTERS

Carrie Harvey Snider with contributions from Florence Whiteside

[We are pleased to give prominence to the following letters to Mrs. Eddy in regard to the late Rev. J. Henry Wiggin and his attitude toward her and her work. These letters and the letter of Mr. Edward P. Bates published in our issue of Dec. I make clear the fact that Mr. Wiggin did not claim to have rendered Mrs. Eddy any service other than that stated by her; also that he highly esteemed her as an author.—Editor.]

New York, N. Y., Dec. 7, 1906.

Beloved Teacher:—My heart has been too full to tell you in words all that your wonderful life and sacrifice means to me. Neither do I now feel at all equal to expressing the crowding thoughts of gratitude and praise to God for giving this age such a Leader and Teacher to reveal to us His way. Your crowning triumph over error and sin, which we have so recently witnessed, in blessing those who would destroy you if God did not hold you up by the right hand of His righteousness, should mean to your older students much that they may not have been able to appreciate in times past. I wonder if you will remember that Mr. Snider and myself boarded in the home of the late Rev. J. Henry Wiggin during the time of our studying in the second class with you—the normal class in the fall of 1887? We were at that time some eight days in Mr. and Mrs. Wiggin's home. He often spoke his thoughts freely about you and your work, especially your book Science and Health. Mr. Wiggin had somewhat of a thought of contempt for the unlearned, and he scorned the suggestion that Mr. Quimby had given you any idea for your book, as he said you and your ideas were too much alike for the book to have come from any one but yourself. He often said you were so original and so very decided that no one could be of much service to you, and he often hinted that he thought he could give a clearer nomenclature for Science and Health. I remember telling you of this, and you explained how long you had waited on the Lord to have those very terms revealed to you.

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