I will not sell to any of your students the book in questionEditorial Note: Philosophical Realism by William I. Gill till you agree to it; and I will also suspend the sale of it in a degree otherwise. I do not seem to feel much interest in it at present as I did.— But as no one can thoroughly understand your bookEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy with out your oral stand-pointCorrected:standpoint, I hold that it is impossible for one infallibly to pronounce on my bookEditorial Note: Philosophical Realism by William I. Gill with such a cursory reading as you have given to it; and, of course, it cannot be denied that I can give it the right interpretation where it is indefinite when I have a class [?] Unclear or illegible  before me.

I repeat that the Laurence Corrected: Lawrence Ch.Expanded:Church is as true as the Boston,— and more so, and that to abandon it without a preacher would be insane and sinful. They all there consider Science & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy to be the great text-book Corrected: textbook on Chrn.Expanded:Christian Science. Here they dont all so think. I have thought that I should also be able to do the more for the new Ch.Expanded:Church by preaching there; and after then, after the expenses of the new arrangement should be met I purposed to give to the Ch.Expanded:Church fund the net-proceedsCorrected:net proceeds or thereabouts of the Laurence Corrected: Lawrence work. That work costs me meAs Written:me very little. It takes nothing away from my pastoral work here. What occupies me here nearly all the time, three fourthsCorrected:three-fourths of my time, is the Journal. I would not consider two thousand dollarsEditorial Note: $2,000 in 1886 is the equivalent of $66,705.42 in 2024. any compensation for this— nothing but love of the CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science could compensate.

I have been growingly happy in my work here up to last Saturday. It is an entire mistake for anyone to think otherwise. You then seemed to choke me off, so that I have felt a little stifled since — only since then. I never enjoyed a meeting so much as that last Friday night.

I would rather than not have Mrs. Crosse look over the Journal— though it makes a little more work; but I like to have her guarantee that it is right in Chrn.Expanded:Christian Science.

I write this note because it will obtrude less than my presence and will less interrupt your work.