Letters November 20, 1909 Issue

LETTERS TO OUR LEADER

with contributions from C. Lilias Ramsay, Mary Baker Eddy, Robert E. Carey, Oscar R. King, Helen Rogers, D. H. Snoke, Anne F. Fiske

A reply in this article was later republished in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany: My. 208:10-22

Edinburgh, Scotland, Oct. 22, 1909.

Dear Leader:—The board of directors of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Edinburgh, are desirous that you should know of the progress we are making here, so I have been be asked to write and tell you about it. We feel sure you will be glad to hear that we are going to build a church. Eight years ago you started our building fund by a very generous gift which came as a great encouragement to us in our work. The gracious words which you wrote to us at the time seemed to bring you very near to us, and gave us wonderful sense of your loving care for even such a little band as we were, so far across the sea. You have shown us that "space is no separator of hearts" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 150), and we love to remember that Edinburgh is dear to you as your great-grandfather's home, and that tales of Scotland told you in childhood's days are still fresh in your memory.

We want to thank you again for the Monitor, and the grand work it is accomplishing in removing prejudices of all sorts and drawing nations and classes together. I am sure there never was a time when the need for this was more felt than it is now. The work of the Monitor will go deeper than any Act of Parliament or Peace Congress; it is a messenger to announce to the world the approach of the millennium, and to prepare men's hearts to receive it.

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