I left BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts some four weeks ago for WashingtonEditorial Note: Washington, D.C.. Arrived there, found Miss Gray & made arrangements to give some lectures there. Gave my first before some 60 people, continued to lecture about twice a week. Found some interest manifested, at first, which gradually increased. Found Miss G. rather lacking in self confidence but gave her strength by advice & encouragement. She has demonstrated some & made some converts. I continued to work caring more for demonstrating than for lecturing altho'Expanded:although not neglecting the latter.

I had been there about 2 weeks when I recd.Expanded:received a telegram from Miss Brown of ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois telling me she had a class ready for me to teach. Now I should say that for more than a year I had told Miss B. that as soon as my business matters were fully settled I would come out West & locate. I also told her when she was on to Boston in Sept last I would be in Chicago by the middle of Oct perhaps before. Relying on my assurances she took the names of more pupils to teach than she was able to with her constant practice. I wrote her the day I left Boston telling her where I was going and to hold them off as long as she could. After being in Wash.Editorial Note: Washington, D.C. two weeks she telegraphed me that she should lose one class of seven people in Grand RapidsEditorial Note: Grand Rapids, Michigan if I did not come on & take it: that the opposition would teach them if she did not. Thereupon having no immediate prospect of [?] Unclear or illegible  urgent bunsiness at the CapitalEditorial Note: Washington, D.C. I concluded the matter West was of more immediate consequence & so went on. I reached Chicago & the next day came to this placeEditorial Note: Grand Rapids, Michigan where I took the class Have just finished teaching them. It was a fine class made up of the best people in this place (a city of 50000 people & second only to DetroitEditorial Note: Detroit, Michigan in the state) One was a Judge of the U. S. Cir.Expanded:Circut Court (same position as held by Judge Lowell in our state) the balance [?] Unclear or illegible  were wives of leading merchants here & ladies of means. It has given me great pleasure to teach them. I saw more clearly than ever the meaning of life impersonal and also of love impersonal. I have lectured here a number of times & held social talks innumerable. Have taken patients & am healing them up in a business likeCorrected:businesslike way. I am here where there is a great interest manifested owing to its proximity to Chicago where so much has been done in C. S.Expanded:Christian Science work. Regular Physicians are calling and are interesting themselves in this healing or looking on & wondering.

I believe in planting the pure science of ChristianityEditorial Note: Christian Science on a firm & solid basis now that I am here & not leave my work half done. I have seen enough in the East of mental healers stopping at a place a few days or a few weeks, gathering up a few dollars & then leaving never to be seen again. Such people are too apt to leave a desert behind them. I am going to get these people my pupils to work, I am demonstrating every day & when I leave this place this C. S.Expanded:Christian Science shall be planted & rooted to remain. I hate & abhor the actions of those who sear & outrage public opinion in different places by coming into them, jibbering around, gathering in dollars, making superficial cures then rushing off leaving curses cu [?] Unclear or illegible  & contempt behind them. One must do faithful work & unselfish work to have it stand. I am bound to do it here now that I am here. I should [?] Unclear or illegible  stay in WashingtonEditorial Note: Washington, D.C. until spring to do any justice to the place. Six weeks is not enough. A person should demonstrate as well as lecture to show that it is no mere passing catch pennyCorrected:catchpenny affair.