Attached to this letter is a sheet of manuscript in Mrs. Eddy's handwriting, which reads:
Argument
Nothing can hinder the book, Science and Health, from being published immediately. The press and machinery that publish this book and all who work on it in the press and bindery are safe in God's hands, they cannot be and are not governed by hatred. They are governed, upheld and prospered by Love and the book is coming out rapidly. When the book goes to the bindery then stop the press aid and turn all their force there.
Tell each one that I say by no means take up the mesmerists or any personality, but to have faith in God and this will do it all—just as the prayer asks.
Your personal work for the Wilsons must be done as I have taught you, to help them, and not touch others.
If I or Mr. Frye write or telegraph to you then you must stop at once the student's argument. You understand this, do you not?
The last sentence in Mrs. Eddy's instructions seems to imply that it was possible to over-treat the pressroom, and that it might be necessary to stop the treatments at any time. Just what the results of over-treatment might be, it is difficult to conjecture, but from another letter to Dr. Foster it is evident that Mrs. Eddy thought the treatments had been too vigorous and had thrown everything into confusion:
Dearest:
I have just found what did (but did not)[1] produce a temporary tempest here. It was the help you procured on the Press! Never, never put "new wine into old bottles."
Those persons named are utterly incapable of handling the Red Dragon.[2] They can command serpents but not the last species.
At once dismiss your help and confine your treatment to the Proprietor Mr. W —— and electricity take no other personality into thought but the ones employed at the Press.
All is God, Good there is no evil.
- ↑ Mrs. Eddy's contradictory statement means that the confusion was not real because all is God and discord has no part in God. A "tempest" was produced In "belief" but not in reality. The sentence is peculiarly illustrative of her philosophy. One is (but is not) ill, exhausted, melancholy, etc., etc.
- ↑ Mesmerism.
