Letters February 24, 1906 ISSUE

Letters to our Leader

with contributions from Howard D. Kenyon, Florence M. Lull, Mary Baker Eddy, Elizabeth C. Wickersham, Mercy van Homan, Clarence H. Stockwell

Lynn, Mass., Dec. 15, 1905.
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Concord, N. H.

Beloved Leader :— First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Lynn, in annual meeting assembled, sends you loving greetings. We feel that you would be pleased to know what the church is doing in the city that was the scene of your earlier labors, and in a spirit of loyal gratitude to you, God's messenger to this age, the following is submitted.

The church membership is sixty-five, sixteen of whom were admitted the past year. Somewhat over a year ago a beautiful building was erected in the business portion of the city, in which is a hall with a seating capacity of four hundred and seventy, in every way most admirably designed and artistically finished. The proprietors were desirous of renting it to us, and the church voted to secure it. The treasurer states that while the expenses were doubled by taking this step, it has been easier to meet them since than it was before. Our Sunday congregations are in the neighborhood of one hundred and twenty-five.

In all nine hundred and forty-two dollars has been sent to The Mother Church Building Fund. The Sunday School, numbering thirteen children and two teachers, contributed twenty-one dollars and sixty-eight cents of this amount in the past year. The Reading Room is now at your old home, 12 Broad Street. The Reading Room committee reports that for the six months ending December 1, 1905, fourteen hundred and twenty Sentinels and three hundred and sixty Journals were distributed from the waiting room of the Boston and Northern Street Railway station in Central Square, and in other places in the city. During this time there were sold; fifteen copies of Science and Health; two copies of "Miscellaneous Writings;" ninety-six Journals; eight hundred and fifty-one Sentinels; two hundred and sixteen Quarterlies; two hundred and three copies of Judge Hanna's lecture as printed in the Lynn Evening News; also one hundred and seventy copies of other Christian Science publications.

An occasional opportunity is given whereby services are held at the Lynn City Home and at the Home for Aged Women. The foregoing facts are given partly as a further answer to your letter of a little over a year ago, inquiring about the work in Lynn.

We trust that as the years go by this church may prove by its works that it is comprehending your teachings to a greater and greater degree, and practising them with renewed devotion and perseverance.

With love and gratitude,
Howard D. Kenyon, First Reader.
Florence M. Lull, Clerk.
Committee.

Mrs. Eddy's Reply.

Beloved Brethren :—" Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom."

Mary Baker Eddy.

Washington, D.C., Feb. II, 1906.

Beloved Teacher and Leader :— Allow me to express to you my gratitude for the higher light shed upon the spiritual sense of the Lord's Prayer, as given in the last edition of Science and Health; not so much for the additional words as for the magnificent courage, faith, and conviction they express of the allness of God. To those working and longing for instantaneous healing, the tenacity and arrogance of error is sometimes discouraging. Then you always come to the rescue with some stronger, clearer, and higher tone in the ascending scale of harmony, that strengthens, cheers, and encourages the watchful student. We have the confidence that we, too, if faithful may climb to this height of spiritual vision, where "God is Mind and fills all space, is everywhere, matter is nowhere and sin is obsolete" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 173)

With deepest gratitude and affection,
Elizabeth C. Wickersham.

Brighton, England, Jan. 23, 1906.
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy.

Beloved Leader :— The members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Brighton, England, have just remitted five hundred and twenty-five dollars to the Building Fund of The Mother Church. It may interest you to know that although we have only now completed the first year of our existence as a church, and have at present a small membership, this amount was collected during the last six months, over two hundred and sixty dollars at one collection, this being the response to a suggestion of our First Reader, that the money usually spent in Christmas presents should be contributed to this fund. Our children of the Sunday School collected ten dollars. When they were asked whether they would contribute this money to the Building Fund, or have their Christmas Tree, every little hand went up for the Building Fund, for they also are learning it is only as the root is recognized and supplied that the branches can prosper.

Our great desire is for loving unity, and to walk daily in the path you have so clearly shown us. 
Lovingly yours,
Mrs. Mercy van Homan, Treasurer of the Fund. 

Cleveland, O., Feb. 12, 1906.
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Concord, N. H.

Dearly Beloved Leader :— We, the students of Mr. E. A. Merritt, desiring to express our deep gratitude for the daily benefits derived from the study of Christian Science, and the loving and kindly assistance rendered by our deep gratitude for the daily benefits derived from the study of Christian Science, and the loving and kindly assistance rendered by our teacher, have to-day forwarded two hundred dollars to The Mother Church Building Fund. This contribution also expresses in a slight measure our grateful appreciation of the priceless labor of your life, so generously devoted to the welfare of humanity, broad enough to encircle the globe and clear enough to give your students a glimpse of eternity. For this gracious knowledge of Truth, revealed in Science and Health, and carefully guided and guarded by our teacher, we give most heartfelt and grateful recognition.

Very lovingly yours,
Clarence H. Stockwell. 
For the Association

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