Sydney, Australia, May 31, 1909.
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, Brookline, Mass.

Beloved Leader:—At the annual meeting of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Sydney, Australia, it was unanimously agreed that a letter be sent to you, to express individually and as a church our love and gratitude, and to say humbly and fervently that we are prayerfully striving to apprehend more of that glorious teaching so beautifully expressed by you in these two lines on page 6 of Science and Health: "God is Love. More than this we cannot ask, higher we cannot look, farther we cannot go."

We feel it will interest you to hear a little about the Sydney (Australia) church. During the year we were compelled to move to a larger hall for our services, and, as this is rapidly filling, we are again looking for more ample accommodation. The Sunday School shows a very encouraging growth in numbers and interest. The lectures by Bicknell Young, given in our Town Hall, were listened to on each occasion by large and appreciative audiences. Class instruction has been given in Sydney to fifteen students, by an Australian teacher who has qualified for this work. Our greatest satisfaction however lies in this, that the sale of our text-book, Science and Health, is increasing wonderfully, and there is a steady demand for all your precious writings.

The government of the one Mind is more apparent in every department of our church work, and the Cause is growing more dear to each one of us. Each succeeding year must surely find our love, reverence, and gratitude increasing, even as our spiritual perception is awakened to perceive the eternal greatness of your life-work. Dearest Leader, what a debt of gratitude the world owes you for Christian Science, and for the marvelous organization which demonstrates the oneness of Science through you as Discoverer and Founder.

Forgive this rather long letter. It is the bursting forth of our song of thanksgiving to God, the joy of knowing that all our blessings have come through through your unselfed consecration Him. We do thank Him, and rest content in this, that because you dwell "in the secret place of the most High," you abide "under the shadow of the Almighty." Lovingly and loyally yours,
Minnie D. Symonds, Clerk.

Mrs. Eddy's Reply.

Box G, Brookline, Mass., July 15, 1909
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Sydney, Australia.

Beloved Brethren:—Accept my deep thanks for your highly interesting letter. It would seem as if the whole import of Christian Science had been mirrored forth by your loving hearts, to reflect its heavenly rays over all the earth.

Lovingly yours,
Mary Baker Eddy.

Boston, Mass., July 12, 1909.

Beloved Leader:—At the risk of seeming to take a moment of your valuable time, I want to thank you for these words,—words that brought great peace in a recent sore trial,—"I do not regard this attack upon me as a trial, for when these things cease to bless they will cease to occur."

A terrible calamity seemed to fall upon me, and for several hours I could not think clearly, but the above words came to me as light shining in the darkness and gave me great "strength in this Peniel of divine Science" (Science and Health, p. 308). Your words, "Friends will betray and enemies will slander, until the lesson is sufficient to exalt you" (Ibid., p. 266), also helped to lift me above earth's perilous passage, and I very soon found that this experience was but a blessed opportunity to follow the injunction of the Master: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."

I rejoice in this spiritual uplifting for I know that every victory over self brings me closer to that final understanding of God where there shall be no more "night" of sorrow and suffering but one eternal "day"—"on earth peace, good will toward men." Again I thank you for your life, and your words, which have for so many years been leading me out of the slavery of human darkness into this glorious light, and the "liberty of the children of God." My daily prayer is for more wisdom, humility, and love, and to follow you as you follow Christ.

Lovingly and loyally, your student's student,
Helen Friend-Robinson.

Kansas City, Mo., July 11, 1909.

Dear Mrs. Eddy:—Today it was my joyful privilege to assist in reading the communion service for the first time, in First Church of Christ, Scientist. As I looked over the church, filled to overflowing, chairs being placed for many, my heart was filled with gratitude that because of your pure thought these hungry and thirsty "little ones" might now receive the "true bread"—"that a man may eat thereof, and not die;" also the "living water." Moreover, I rejoice that the sense of universal, impersonal Love, operating through you, blesses me in giving me the opportunity of distributing to the multitude, and I wish to thank you for making it possible for me to do this. My earnest desire and endeavor is to prove by my daily life that I am a partaker (to a degree), with you, of that "one bread."

Lovingly and gratefully,
Annah T. Norton.

Lowell, Mass., July 11, 1909.
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, Brookline, Mass.

Beloved Leader:—Having just returned from church, where mine was again the sacred privilege of reading the Bible references in our Lesson-Sermon on "Sacrament," I cannot resist telling you how, with each recurring communion service, I realize and appreciate more and more your wonderful wisdom in dispensing with all material rites and ceremonies, thus giving us a higher and more wholesome sense of the true communion, which is wholly spiritual; and today, more than ever before, my prayer is a "fervent desire for growth in grace" (Science and Health, p. 4), that I may draw nearer and nearer to ever-present Love, better demonstrate divine Principle, sacrifice more of self, and ever be found

Your humble, obedient follower,
Lillian E. Honig.

Leeds, England, July 6, 1909.

Dear Mrs. Eddy:—Gratitude and love prompt me to write and thank you for "A Correction," in the Sentinel of June 26. Conflicting abstractions do at times cloud the clear sense of "God with us,"—"In my flesh shall I see God." But this, your well-timed instruction, will confirm and strengthen us in our work of healing the sick. For all that Christian Science has done and is doing for me in healing sickness and sin, and for this added proof of your inspired teaching and wise, loving thought, I would fain convey to you the intense love and gratitude I feel.

Yours ever loyally,
Emma Julia North.

Chicago, Ill., July 8, 1909.
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, Brookline, Mass.

Beloved Leader:—We, the members of Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist, of Chicago, in regular semiannual business meeting assembled, desire to express to you our sincere gratitude for the many blessings which have come to us through Christian Science. We are grateful, dear Leader, for your unceasing labor of love for mankind, and trust that we as a church may continually prove by our fruits "what the understanding of God brings to man" (Science and Health, p. 496).

Yours in obedience and love,
Members of Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist,
By Committee

New York, N.Y., July 2, 1909.
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy.

Beloved Leader:—Thank you most heartily and lovingly for the new by-law, Article XXVII., with reference to class teaching, as it appears in current number of the Christian Science Sentinel. It will prove most helpful to the Cause here as well as throughout the world. With the understanding of spiritual law which has come to me through the study of your writings and the literature of Christian Science, I have been enabled to free many from sin, disease, and death, during the past ten years. The superiority of a purely spiritual interpretation of the truth, as given in your teachings, is offsetting the semi-materialist's methods of intellectualism under whatever names it may appear, and is preserving the presentation of truth to humanity as it should be presented.

With loving gratitude and loyalty,
Sincerely,
Robert E. Cary.

New York, N.Y., July 7, 1909.
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy.

Dearly Beloved Leader:—My heart is full of love and gratitude to you for Christian Science. It is five years this month since I attended the Sunday morning service in Second Church of Christ, Scientist, New York city. I did not come for the physical healing, but purchased a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." After reading a few days, when starting to read the book one evening, I did not remove my glasses, which I had worn for ten years, from the case. This healing seemed very beautiful to me, as I did not know that the book healed as you read it. I am very grateful to God, and to you, dear Leader, for some cases of instantaneous healing. Science and Health and your other writings have been my constant companions ever since, also the Sentinel and Journal.

The daily reading of the Lesson-Sermons has been to me the bread "which cometh down from heaven," and my daily prayer is that God will give me more grace, obedience, and love; and I ask divine Love to feed me with "the bread of heaven, health, holiness," that I may "be conformed to a fitness to receive the answer to [my] desire" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 127).

With deep love, I am your student's student's student,
Annie Spelcy.