your early struggles. I have been solicited by many of your followers to say something about the early history of Christian Science. I have replied that if Mrs. Eddy thought it wise to instruct them on the subject she would doubtless do so.
Possibly you may remember the words of my uncle, the good old deacon of the First Congregational Church of Lynn, when told that I had studied with you. “My boy, you will be ruined for life; it is the work of the devil.” He only expressed the thought of all the Christian(?) people at that time. What a change in the Christian world! “The stone which the builders rejected” has become the corner-stone of this wonderful temple of “wisdom, Truth, and Love.” (Science and Health, p. 495.) I have yet the little Bible which you gave me as a reward for the best paper on the spiritual significance of the first chapter of Genesis. It has this inscription on the fly-leaf in your handwriting, “With all thy getting get understanding.”
- Cambridge, Mass., June 12, 1906.
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy,
- Pleasant View, Concord, N. H.
Dear Leader and Guide: — Now that the great event, the dedication of our new church building, is over, may I ask a little of your time to tell you of the interesting part I had to perform in this wonderful consummation. On the twenty-fifth of last March I was asked by one of the Directors if I would care to do a little watching
