Pleasant View, Concord, N. H., July 8, 1907.
To the Directors of the Central Christian Science Reading Room, 23 West 23d Street, New York, N. Y.
My beloved Christian Scientists:—Because I suggested the name for one central Reading Room, and this name continues to be multiplied, you will permit me to make the amende honorable—notwithstanding "incompetence"—and to say, please adopt generally for your name, Christian Science Reading Room. An old axiom says. Too much of one thing spoils the whole. Too many centers may become equivalent to no center.
Here I have the joy of knowing that Christian Scientists will exchange the present name for the one that I suggest, with the sweet alacrity and uniformity that they accepted the first name.
Merely this appellative seals the question of unity, and opens wide on the amplitude of liberty and love a far reaching motive and success, of which we can say, the more the better.
Yours in Love,
[Telegram.]
New York, July 13, 1907.
To Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy,
Pleasant View, Concord, N. H.
Beloved Leader:— Your message dated July eighth, to the Directors of the Central Christian Science Reading Room, has been received, and at a meeting of the Board this afternoon your request, that we shall adopt generally for our name "Christian Science Reading Room," has been promptly and gratefully carried out.
We thank you for your beautiful letter and for this added token of your wise and loving guidance in our work.
Lovingly yours,
For the Board of Directors,
