Washington, D.C., April 4, 1908.
Beloved Leader:— President Roosevelt has heartily approved the program adopted by this society, which provides for meeting conditions as they appear to be, and for changing them so that they will be manifest, as they are in absolute reality. He did this in a public address to the delegation of the North Carolina Peace Society, at the White House, April 2, presented by Senator Lee S. Overman. By doing this he has called upon all nations to consent now that they will always respect each other's territory and right to make the laws therein, and to arbitrate all other questions. He also expressed the hope that this movement may spread all over the country. The importance of this action seems to justify my bringing it to your notice as part of the unfoldment of good in the permanent establishment of the kingdom of heaven among men, for which you labor. Gratefully and lovingly
Your student's student,
Beloit, Wis., March 27, 1908.
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Brookline, Mass.
Dear Leader and Teacher:— Among the thousand and one churches "planted by the rivers of water," through the ministry of your spiritual interpretation of the Master's words, "greater works than these shall he do," the little church in Beloit, Wisconsin,—First Church of Christ, Scientist,—has noted the recent change in your local habitation and has been peculiarly impressed with the literal fulfilment, in your case, of that Scriptural declaration, "For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands." And after having in a spiritual sense so clearly obeyed the divine injunction, "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul," there came, manifestly through inspiration, this change, when we were thus privileged to see you "go out with joy, and be led forth with peace" and to hear the mountains and the hills of spiritual understanding all over God's large, wide world "break forth before you into singing" and to see the churches planted through your forty years of untiring labor—the trees of the field—"clap their hands."
Our best thought, love, and gratitude is with you in your new and stately surroundings.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, by
Boston, Mass., April 26, 1908.
Beloved Teacher:— I am sending under separate cover a Lewiston (Me.) paper which contains the introduction to my lecture there, and I believe it will interest you, for it is one of the best I ever heard. At every place where I have lectured, I have been greeted with larger audiences than before. The good people are yearning for more of the healing sense of Love, and this makes me seek to rise high enough in spiritual understanding to meet their needs. Then I can ever look beyond and see the lone footprints that have gone before, marking the way for this age, to Truth and Love. As I gain a clearer glimpse of your work, this gives impulse to inquiry beyond the human, that I may gain the true estimate of you, and acquaint myself with that estimate. I suspect sometimes, however, that your rapid progress has well-nigh taken you beyond where we may be of much benefit to you,—my own proofs of the truth seem so meager, and my vision so limited. God certainly blesses you and keeps you in the path of peace. Lovingly your student,
