Letters to our Leader

with contributions from EMILY A. GRISWOLD, D. C. PENDERY, EDITH S. GRANT, EVA A. FAIRLEE, MAIE VAN BUREN SHOUSE, ELLA V. CANNIFF, CHARLES E. GREEN, ROBERT L. ZILLER

Cincinnati, O., April 3, 1906.

Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy,

Pleasant View, Concord, N. H.

Beloved Leader:—We are deeply greatful for your helpful thoughts regarding Sunday School teaching, expressed through your associate secretary, Mr. Strang, and published in the Sentinel of March 3. It is another evidence of your watchful care to supply all our needs. We thank you with overflowing hearts, and wish we could tell you, dearest friend, how much we love you. Your book is not all we know of you. (Message of 1903.) Our prayer is to be constant and true that we may be always ready for your advice and guidance. The children present at Sunday School last Sunday united in the desire that their love to you go with this letter. The little ones show great interest in the progress of the extension of The Mother Church and are happy to have contributed five hundred dollars to the Building Fund up to the present time.

Faithfully yours,

BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THE SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS OF FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST.

EMILY A. GRISWOLD, D. C. PENDERY,

Committee.

Channel Isles.

Beloved Leader:—As a Thanksgiving offering to divine Love, and an expression of loving gratitude to you, we have to-day sent the contents of our treasury ($33-7-6) to the Building Fund of The Mother Church. This sum, as well as $5-5 already sent to The Mother Church, and $5 to the Guernsey lecture fund, was collected at our Sunday morning services here. It formed our fund for a future lecture on Christian Science, and was started about four years ago, by two of your faithful students who have since left the Island. We are unanimously agreed that the work here will be more prosperous because of this step, and we know that all our needs will be supplied. There are as yet only nine regular attendants at the Sunday service. At our Wednesday meetings some good testimonies of healing and other benefits have been given. Firmly believing that your church is healing the sick, feeding the hungry, clothing the poor, and giving rest and shelter to the weary, in the way appointed by our Master, we are joyful to be privileged to take a small part in its extension.

With loving thoughts from all your students here,

Yours most gratefully,
EDITH S. GRANT. EVA A. FAIRLEE.

First and Second Readers.

Toledo, O., April 5, 1906.

Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy,

Pleasant View, Concord, N. H.

Dearly Beloved Leader:—Love finds more satisfaction in giving than in receiving, and the children of the Sunday School, animated by this thought, and the love they bear to you, knowing that the completion of The Mother Church will be the finished demonstration made by you and your faithful followers, as a fitting emblem of the "structure of Truth and Love" (Science and Health, p. 583), wished to forward one hundred dollars for that purpose. The demonstration has been made, and a check for one hundred and five dollars and seventy-five cents has been sent to-day to the Treasurer of The Mother Church Building Fund. The children love to sing your hymns, and they love and revere their author. The teachers in the Sunday School are trying to bring out the spirit of the Master, as interpreted by your inspired book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

With deepest gratitude and love for the untold blessings of Christian Science for humanity,

I am your faithful and loving student's student,

MAIE VAN BUREN SHOUSE, Superintendent.

Cleveland, O., April 11, 1906.

Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy,

Pleasant View, Concord, N. H.

Beloved Leader:—The students of your student, Mrs. Mary E. Crawford, C.S.D., sent to Stephen A. Chase, Treasurer, in July last, one hundred dollars for The Mother Church Building Fund, and to-day, April 11, they are sending an additional offering of one hundred and thirty dollars for the same purpose, with a deep sense of gratitude for what Christian Science has done for them. To you, beloved Leader, through whom this great truth has been revealed, we have no words by which to express our great thankfulness and gratitude, but our one desire shall be, to strive for loving unity, and to prove by daily, practical living that we know, in some degree, the truth and the way you have so clearly shown us.

With best wishes for your welfare and happiness, I am

Gratefully yours,

ELLA V. CANNIFF.

Treasurer of the Mary E. Crawford Association of Christian Science students.

Manchester, N. H., March 12, 1906.

Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy.

Beloved Leader:—In reviewing the annual meeting of the Manchester church held last Monday night, both Mrs. Green and I feel a renewed sense of gratitude to you for this great revelation,—Christian Science,—for what it has done for us and is doing for all mankind. We think it will please you to know that at this meeting the utmost harmony and unity of thought was manifested, and the reports show progress in every way. The attendance at the services has steadily increased during the past year and twelve have been added to our membership. We have sent over seventeen hundred dollars to The Mother Church Building Fund, including a legacy of hundred dollars which church had in its treasury.

We are trying to show our appreciation of what you have done for this field, by proving in our own lives and for others that this truth is practical.

Lovingly and gratefully,
CHARLES E. GREEN.

Austin, Tex., April 9, 1906.

Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Concord, N.H.

Beloved Leader:—I am this day sending to Mr. Chase for The Building Fund of The Mother Church three hundred dollars. This is lovingly contributed by First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Austin, Texas, and represents the building fund of the church with the exception of a small amount secured by a note, which will also be sent as soon as it is received by the treasurer. We consider it no sacrifice to give our entire building fund, feeling that it but poorly expresses the deep gratitude we individually and collectively feel for the manifold blessings which Christian Science bestows. In conclusion we would renewedly express to you our love and gratitude, and assure you of our steadfast loyalty. Sincerely yours.

ROBERT L. ZILLER, Clerk.

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