Letters March 7, 1908 Issue

LETTERS TO OUR LEADER

with contributions from Charles D. Reynolds, Leroy B. Cramer, Jean Clerihew, Richard C. Leders, Meredith Perry Chase, Louise Souvan, Florence Robinson Theller, Annie Howell, Nemi Robertson, Emeline P. Abell, Margaret Riggs Cox, Margaret Dundee Gibb, Lewis C. Strang

Manchester, N. H., Feb. 17, 1908.

Beloved Teacher:—It gives me pleasure to be the bearer of an informal message from our chief executive. Governor Floyd wishes me to convey to you his personal sense of appreciation of your life in New Hampshire and regret that you have left us. "Mrs. Eddy's residence here is the biggest thing New Hampshire ever had," the governor declared in a conversation we have just had concerning Christian Science and your leaving the State; "I would like to have you write to her and tell her so. No matter where I go I find Mrs. Eddy has made our State better known, and to our credit. She has been a great good to us in every way. Morally she has attached to us certain fine qualities, which influence has been felt abroad. It is too bad we have lost her!" As regards Christian Science Governor Floyd is very positive that it is "built on right lines,—is constructive, never destructive. It gives its followers something which they did not have, and which everybody wants. This makes it a sure thing!" In adding these quotations I sought to ascertain if I had exceeded my authority, and find that I have not. My joy is therefore the greater.

With gratitude,
Charles D. Reynolds.

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