I have been intending to write you for some time but have put it off being busy myself and knowing that your are more so. I thought I would leave what I had thought to write you until As Written: untill some more convenient As Written: convient time, I have 28, patients and more coming this week my correspondence is quite large. I have no thoughts but God and this good work. I amAs Written:Iam doing some very good work in scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science and know that I shall still continue to do good, sometimesAs Written:some times things looks a little dark, but that soon passes away and scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science opens to me more bright and beautifulAs Written:beautifull, all the time, dear Mrs Eddy I have been asked to go to a patientAs Written:apatient in Iowa, a town called Melrose the Gentleman has a belief of consumptionEditorial Note: tuberculosis. they write me that they have heard of some of the cures that I have made, and they say to me, I will pay your fare As Written: fair both ways. if I will take the case and treat. no cure no pay. Now dear I don’t As Written: dont care for the money and am treating a good many for nothing with this understanding that when they are able to pay they must or should be willing to pay somethingAs Written:some thing for so glorious a Truth I don’t As Written: dont wish to cheapen the scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science by any means, but feel that those who can pay should pay, I have the Truth and it is more to me than Gold, there is not one that comes to me that I do not try to bring them into the scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science or get them to try and understand enough, so that they may go to you and be taught the true way. I refused to take this party in Melrose withoutAs Written:with out seeing them first, did I do right, they write me that the Doctors had given him up. I do not have any fears to take up any case that is presented to me but in some, I feel that I want to see them first. I know all of whom As Written: whome I have seen are getting on splendidlyAs Written: splendedly , I have a great deal of absent treatment, but a very few in my own city. dear Mrs Eddy would you advise me to take up that case withoutAs Written:with out first seeing him, I want to do what is right and best. I have not receivedAs Written:recd my little Journal this month, I miss it ever so much. Prof." A. J. Swarts, has been kind enough to send me two of his Journal’sEditorial Note: This is a reference to a monthly periodical published by A. J. Swarts titled The Mind Cure and Science of Life (later renamed Mental Science Magazine)., I do think it is terrible the way some people As Written: peopal do talk about you, if I thought you had not seen them I would send them. I feel as though I would like to put my foot through him, as I did the time that Joseph Cook was in "Tremont Temple,"Editorial Note: Congregational minister Reverend Joseph Cook gave “Monday Lectures” at Tremont Temple in Boston, Massachusetts, in which he attempted to refute skeptical attacks on Christianity, as well religious teachings he thought were heretical. At his lecture on February 23, 1885, he read a letter from Reverend A. J. Gordon that was critical of Christian Science. Eddy responded with the publication of Defence of Christian Science and an in-person rebuttal at Tremont Temple on March 16, 1885. when he was so insulting to you. I know dear that you are True and I do not feel that anyoneAs Written:any one else is outsideAs Written:out side of yourself. What I mean to say is anyoneAs Written:any one that Teaches this Christian Science cannot teach it as I know that you can. I want to get another As Written: an nother Dozen set of BooksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy right off - I have no trouble at all in getting people As Written: peopal to by the Books Science & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy I don’t As Written: dont seem to progress with the little Journal so well although some five or six have sent for the Journal. please give my love to Mrs Hopkins and all other friends.