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6	       TO DONORS OF BOAT, FROM TORONTO, CANADA 

  	Written on receipt of a beautiful boat presented by Christian
  	Scientists in Toronto, for the little pond at Pleasant View. The
 9	boat displays, among other beautiful decorations, a number of
  	masonic symbols. 

  	    Beloved Students and Friends: — Accept my thanks
12	for the beautiful boat and presentation poem. Each day
  	since they arrived I have said, Let me write to the donors,
  	 — and what? 
15	    My first impression was to indite a poem; my second,
  	a psalm; my third, a letter. Why the letter alone? Be-
  	cause your dear hearts expressed in their lovely gift such
18	varying types of true affection, shaded as autumn leaves
  	with bright hues of the spiritual, that my Muse lost her
  	lightsome lyre, and imagery of thought gave place to
21	chords of feeling too deep for words. 
  	    A boat song seemed more Olympian than the psalm in
  	spiritual strains of the Hebrew bard. So I send my
24	answer in a commonplace letter. Poor return, is it
  	not? 
  	    The symbols of freemasonry depicted on the boat
27	wakened memory, touched tender fibres of thought, and
  	I longed to say to the masonic brothers:  If as a woman
  	I may not unite with you in freemasonry, nor you with
30	me in Christian Science, yet as friends we can feel the
 
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 Miscellaneous Writings --...- Letters: TO DONORS OF BOAT, 
                                                             FROM TORONTO, CANADA

 1	touch of heart to heart and hand to hand, on the broad
  	basis and sure foundation of true friendship's "level"
 3	and the "square" of moral sentiments. 
  	    My dear students may have explained to the kind par-
  	ticipants in beautifying this boat our spiritual points,
 6	above the plane of matter. If so, I may hope that a
  	closer link hath bound us. Across lakes, into a kingdom,
  	I reach out my hand to clasp yours, with this silent bene-
 9	diction:  May the kingdom of heaven come in each of
  	your hearts! 
  	                       With love,
12	                                        MARY BAKER EDDY 
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