Letters to our Leader

with contributions from George Tomkins, R. Evart

Brighton, Mass., February 23, 1904. Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy.

Beloved Leader and Teacher:—Your precious letter came with Spirit-inspiring encouragement to plod quietly on. I rejoice to know that my previous letter occasioned you gladness. We are enjoined to "Serve the Lord with gladness" and to pray, "Make us glad according to the days ... wherein we have seen evil." Your previous message was, "The waves beat in vain against such as build upon the Rock of Christ." Its sense is to me impregnable, imperishable, impersonal Truth, the vitality of all being, Principle, wholeness, and love.

As "Thankful Hearts" reported in the Sentinel (June 21, 1900), both my dear wife and myself have repeatedly and quickly healed like cases, both in children and adults. Since removing hither, I was called to visit a gentleman in his bed, with the most oppressive beliefs of grip and diphtheria. He was relieved of much suffering and fear after the first treatment, and on the third day, he was enabled to go to the city.

My wife was telephoned for and went to another town, to combat the dread that a second child would be taken away with the seeming that removed an infant a few weeks since with what the doctors called diphtheria. On her arrival the child could not speak. After treatment, she used her recovered voice, in insisting that the practitioner and Science and Health be sent away. Further "demonstration of the Spirit" brought the little one to the lap of her healer with conscious gratitude, "clothed and in her right mind,"—perfectly and instantly healed. She has reflected the healing Love ever since.

My wife's brother's case was called hopeless from Bright's disease. One evening he asked, "What are you reading?" His sister replied, "Nothing that will interest you." He responded, "What is good for you is good for me; read it." It was your "Unity of Good." It completely healed him, and he is rejoicing in Christian Science. While a Reader in New York, I was led to correspond with a couple in California, the man eighty, the woman seventy. They wrote me recently, rejoicing that they had Science and Health, Quarterly, Journal, and Sentinel, and studied the Lesson-Sermons in their remote mountain home, and to attest the good done, they saved up ten cents at a time until it reached five dollars which they sent to remunerate me for those services five years ago. That means much, as they work from dawn to dark. But the word comes, "In this rejoice not, ... but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven," So we set to our seal "that God is true," and "Rejoice evermore," as we see the dawn of what Spurgeon used to tell us; viz., "When that American religion is understood and the sick are healed and the sinner saved, while that 'little book' (Science and Health) is preached and read, it will lick up every other religion like one of their prairie fires." With much love, in which my wife unites, I am your disciple,

George Tomkins.

City of Mexico, January 26, 1904. Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Pleasant View, Concord, N. H.

Beloved Leader:—We write to tell you of another beautiful demonstration we have had, as we know you will rejoice with us. We have just had the privilege and the benefit of a second lecture in this Field, the first having been given in March, 1903, and the second on January 21, 1904, making two lectures on Christian Science in Mexico's fair capital in less than a year. In fact, it is the third lecture in the Republic of Mexico within one year, one having been given at San Luis Potosi on January 18, 1904. All three lectures were delivered by Judge Ewing, and we know the "Gospel of Healing" he preached will touch many a consciousness in this great republic and awaken many to the understanding that God is All in all, and that He can heal and save now just as He did through Christ Jesus.

Enclosed you will find a brief notice of the lecture on Friday, the day following, and a full report of same in Sunday's issue of the Mexican Herald, January 24. We appreciate the Mexican Herald's kindly attitude and its willingness always to publish anything that concerns our Cause.

Much healing is being done here by the workers in His vineyard; and every phase of sin or sickness overcome, whether within ourselves or for others, enables us to rise into a higher understanding of Life, Truth, and Love, and this brings with it a better appreciation of what you have done and what you are daily doing for mankind.

With much love from our branch of the Mother Vine, we are, Yours in Christ,
R. Evart, Clerk.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, City of Mexico.

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