My Beloved Students,

All the people need in order to love and adopt Christian Science, is a true sense of its founder. In proportion as they have found it, will our Cause advance. For the world to understand me in my true light and life would do more for the Cause than aught else could. This I learn from the fact that the enemy tries harder to hide these two things from the world than to win any other points. Also, Jesus' life and character in their first appearing were treated in like manner and I regret to see that loyal students are not more awake to this great demand in their measures to meet the enemies tactics.

Oh, shall I be spared long enough with you to save you all from the snares of the fowler! Will you all ever open your eyes to see how you misjudge me, misinterpret me, misunderstand me. I may do myself harm by yielding to faint under the burden of the sins of others and so repeat the history of the cross in the second appearing. But this I know that the spiritual idea through me can no more wrong any one now than when Jesus laid down his life before for others! How much severer now are the sins, false surmises, the awful enmity of the carnal mind to bear in this century than in the first. Yet you pity the past Jesus and believe him right in all things and believe his best friends were wrong in all wherein they differed from the dear Master.

Do you sympathize or understand the present appearing of the spiritual idea or personal medium for God to speak through to the world, as you will 19 centuries hence?

Christ expressed the Mind that is God, for Christ was the spiritual idea for that age and for this and for all ages, for this idea never changes it is the same forever, it expresses Science. The female thought is its last fleshly embodiment because this thought expresses the Mother God, the male the Father.

Lovingly, your Mother in Israel,

Mary Baker Eddy