Letters January 23, 1909 Issue

LETTERS TO OUR LEADER

with contributions from Alfred Farlow, Maude Corbett Smith, Harry T. Knight, Horatio Gates, Stella T. Merritt, Henry Bancroft, W. H. McFall, O. B. Barrows, John S. Willis, A. Hazel Cohen, Rose A. Bainbridge

Boston, Mass., Jan. 17, 1909.

Dear Teacher:—May I occupy just enough of your precious time to thank you for your good lesson on humility published in the last number of the Christian Science Sentinel. What a church ours would be if all competition therein consisted of an honest, earnest effort to outdo our conduct of yesterday, an effort to be more kind, charitable, forgiving, Godlike, than we have ever been before! To be sure, you have given us this lesson over and over again in your writings, as well as in your private teaching, but it is always new and acceptable from the one whose life so amply commands the respect that justifies the preaching.

I have for many years been associated with you in the business affairs and labor of the church, and I have also been a member of your household, therefore I am in a position to know whereof I speak when I declare with gratitude that I have never known a mortal with such broad and forbearing charity as I have witnessed in you. I have never known one whose every thought, word, and deed so nearly conformed to the exalted standard of Christ. Your loving student,

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