Did Mary Baker Eddy write it? “May the tender Christ take you in His arms…”

Our research team was asked to authenticate this statement: “May the tender Christ take you in His arms and carry you gently to the fold of Christ.” Is it attributable to Mary Baker Eddy?

This appears to be based on a sentence in a 1901 letter that Eddy wrote to artist Daniel E. Fultz. She had received his tapestry painting of Jesus Christ holding a lamb.

On May 23,1901, she wrote this:

May the blessings you have received from Christian Science continue, and increase; may the light be clearer to you which reflects the beauties of holiness and the scenes of spiritual joys be lifted upon your vision, and the tender Christ take you in his arms and carry you to the fold of Truth – as gently as you depict this in painting.¹

Eddy had a placard placed above the painting that proclaimed it “The Christian Science Banner.” For more information on Fultz’s painting, the placard, and the place these items found in Pleasant View (her home in Concord, New Hampshire), see our website article “What is the Christian Science Banner?”.