Your kind message came to attend Christian Science Ass - in New - York -Editorial Note: See L04200. And my heart bounded with joy that you remembered me and nothing would have so gratifyedCorrected:gratified me - but my mother has gone and my Husband was not willing for me to leave the BabiesEditorial Note: Elsie Bell and Daisy Bell in care of Servants - If she had been here I would have obeyed your summons most gladly - Your letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. also came and I must confess was much astonished and wondered Does my Teacher think me competent to fulfill so responsible a task?- I stand ready and willing to do anything to do, in my master's vine-yardCorrected:vineyard- I hanve dedicated my whole life to His service dare I falter when my Spiritual mother bids me go on?- And yet is not this work for those who are digesting the wmeat of the workd - While I the least of all the little ones andam only sipping the milk of the wordHeb 5:11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. Heb 5:12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. Heb 5:13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. Heb 5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. - I have had serious thoughts indeed since your letter came - but looking to my High - Priest for Spiritual light I want to work to mind Our precious Teacher and with an humble Contriteness of heart I youwantto have been at work with one Student trusting the Everlasting Arm will be round about meDeut 33:27 The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them. – Taking my Mother & Sister through the lessons and this friend will give me confidence I hope –

Thanks for the little noticesEditorial Note: An article “Additional Gifts” in the February 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal indicated that Bell had given Eddy a gift of $6.00 ($172.96 in 2021), which was received from a patient she had healed in Journal – but my Husband fears if his Partner - see'sCorrected:sees the amount given and reads of the "tale told" it will excite his anger as I think ishe is much ashamed – but I can only trust he & wife will not see the Journal – The BabiesEditorial Note: Elsie Bell and Daisy Bell were so pleased with their treatments and said - "Mama" isentCorrected:isn't Mrs. Eddy just too lovely"–

Now dear Teacher I don’t want to trouble you but a word about Mr - Whitehead - Dr- Fluno wrote to him requesting him to call to see me – & Miss Beecher insisted we should meet him, supposing of course he was all right - & I hope yet he is - we consented to meet him – My Bro. Also at the earnest request of Dr - .F. - I don’t want to be suspicious or judge - but want to do all that is right – He told us so much of the Ocu cult Sciences & the black art - that it frightened us all & I must confess my work has been enormous for myself & Bro.s relief And also Miss Beecher was so overcome with mesmerism I found her in a terrible condition - she even refused to unlock her door to patients – I talked to her as I never supposed I could - I know you would have thought I was brave - I got her up - treated her & told her she had to treat her patients and I treated her while she treated them - She was all broke up & shuttered I found her in that condition that I thought I could help her and tryedCorrected:tried - but the poor child wants to do right & I am in a mist - I don’t know where the trouble lies - He Talks perfectly beautiful if he is true to ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science he will be a VallientCorrected:Valiant Warrior - if nowt which God for bidCorrected:forbid - Why this - Oh! well - "man is as grass"Ps 103:15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. Ps 103:16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. - He can't hurt us – The only thing that interested me in Miss B. She was poor - not many patinatsCorrected:patients - and I hoped that I could help her - which I know I have – I saughtCorrected:sought councelCorrected:counsel of "Miss Brown & Mrs. Noyes – they gave [?] Unclear or illegible  me good advice which I am taking & Mrs. N. advised me to write to you some of [?] Unclear or illegible  it - but it is all confidential but if there is a warning we all need it - W Mrs We all have fears but don’t want to judge - He is a brilliandt scholar & sto all appearance true – if he is in error - "Such would deceive the very elect"Matt 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. – What excited My Suspicion was this - he told My Brother & self that he had had made an agreement because he was not able to fight then with their own weapons - & could not fight them wit [?] Unclear or illegible  h C- SEditorial Note: Christian Science iuntilCorrected:until he had studeyed Corrected: studied with Mrs. Eddy – hence he made an. agreement with them he would keep out of Ass.Expanded:Association 'till first of July if they would let him & his patients alone - they exacted this of him- I keep thinking - it looked like a bribe from Satan – Oh! dear Teacher I would not harm any – body Corrected: anybody by a thought – If he is in error– We have the sword of Truth and can fight - Did not David meet Goliah?I Sam 17:1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at
Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between
Shochoh and
Azekah, in
Ephes–dammim. I Sam 17:2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines. I Sam 17:3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them. I Sam 17:4 ¶And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named
Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. I Sam 17:5 And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass. I Sam 17:6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders. I Sam 17:7 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him. I Sam 17:8 And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. I Sam 17:9 If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. I Sam 17:10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together. I Sam 17:11 When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid. I Sam 17:12 ¶Now David was the son of that
Ephrathite of Beth–lehem–judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. I Sam 17:13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him
Abinadab, and the third Shammah. I Sam 17:14 And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul. I Sam 17:15 But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Beth–lehem. I Sam 17:16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days. I Sam 17:17 And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren; I Sam 17:18 And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge. I Sam 17:19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines. I Sam 17:20 ¶And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle. I Sam 17:21 For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army. I Sam 17:22 And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren. I Sam 17:23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them. I Sam 17:24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid. I Sam 17:25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel. I Sam 17:26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God? I Sam 17:27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him. I Sam 17:28 ¶And
Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and
Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle. I Sam 17:29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause? I Sam 17:30 ¶And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner. I Sam 17:31 And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him. I Sam 17:32 ¶And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine. I Sam 17:33 And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth. I Sam 17:34 And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: I Sam 17:35 And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. I Sam 17:36 Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God. I Sam 17:37 David said moreover, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the Lord be with thee. I Sam 17:38 ¶And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail. I Sam 17:39 And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him. I Sam 17:40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine. I Sam 17:41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him. I Sam 17:42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance. I Sam 17:43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. I Sam 17:44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field. I Sam 17:45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. I Sam 17:46 This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. I Sam 17:47 And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hands. I Sam 17:48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. I Sam 17:49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. I Sam 17:50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David. I Sam 17:51 Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled. I Sam 17:52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou come to the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron. I Sam 17:53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents. I Sam 17:54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent. I Sam 17:55 ¶And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell. I Sam 17:56 And the king said, Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. I Sam 17:57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand. I Sam 17:58 And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth–lehemite. – I dontCorrected:don't want to cast one single shadow upon you dear Teacher.- I write it because I think it best – though we are working, waiting watching and praying & All will be well – for God is All. If I do wrong chide me & rebuke me and counsel me. A few brief words are enough –