I have just given my last lesson in C.S.Expanded:Christian Science to my OaklandEditorial Note: Oakland, California Class- and I feel very happy about their understanding. really from a material stand pointCorrected:standpoint they would have been very hard students, but I got on very well - They are – very learned people, and have asked me more questions than they would think of asking a College Prof.Expanded:Professor, but it really seemed wonderful the answers I was able to give – Mrs Strong, one of the brightest women in Oakland, said she had never talked to any oneCorrected:anyone before that she could not talk down or ask them questions that would wind them up- You see the Truth gave me more to stand upon than all of her worldly knowledge so I had the decided advantage. Dalrling, the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science seems more & and more each day, and the questions brought out so much to me, seeming before hidden, but the thoughts that came seemed to have always been known, but never put in words before.

I have just had a letter from Mrs Spaulding telling me you had written m themEditorial Note: Elvira W. Spaulding and Melville C. Spaulding. See L05522. that you will receive them - I am so glad. I feel sure they will make good helpers in this causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science., and I see the need of your students going a headCorrected:ahead in this for the other school is gaining all the time now will you feel that I am doing right telling you of so many, but I have another, who has practiced so long from Mr. B. Sherman's class, and understands the Bible so well, she has been teacher if in the Bible Class for years in the Baptist Church, and I can see the need she has to come to you to give her that higher understanding than any of your pupils camn give Mrs. A.C. Fisk from DenverEditorial Note: Denver, Colorado she is far from being wealthy, but will make every effort to come to you- Mama wants to ask a favor of you she would like to join your next class – but feels that some oneCorrected:someone else would do better in teaching C.S.Expanded:Christian Science being better able to express them selvesCorrected:themselves. so she wants to send Nettie (my sister) and will pay Mr. Donehue's expesnses to go and come. He being a poor man and having been an invilade Corrected: invalid so long he has not had time to make money- Yet he would never ask such a thing him selfCorrected:himself. he would much rather earn the money first, but he is very bright and inteligente Corrected: intelligent those are the ones we need in this work. Would you take him through the class free? please tell me if [?] Unclear or illegible  we are asking too much. We will wait for your reply before we say any thingCorrected:anything to him about it- then Mama can tell him in some way if you deside Corrected: decide for the best to do so. Mr. & Mrs . P- C. Helm of Colo. SpringsEditorial Note: Colorado Springs, Colorado she is having the same work as we had in Denver when we began. also dear little Mary Lawson. dear, don't forget her, when the class is formed Mr. & Mrs. Collins, our president of the AssociationEditorial Note: A Students' Christian Scientist Association in Denver, I want them to go to you- really Mrs. Collins has been more successful than most of DMr. Sherman's class and they wish to come I will not say any thingCorrected:anything to them, but they will write you I think. Do you know I think we have planted the seed in a large Mormon family- one of the leader's family of Salt LakeEditorial Note: Salt Lake City, Utah- if they do accept this Truth it will lead to great sucaccess in that quarter.

We are going to Colorado on monday please address me at Albany Hotel, Denver, Colo.Expanded:Colorado until we are settle [?] Unclear or illegible d- I have a class in Colorado Springs, Colo.Expanded:Colorado at Mrs. P. C. Helm's. then go home and start my Institute.