The other night about 10 o'clock when I reached home (after watching with Mrs Putnam for three days & nights) and sent for my letters, there was yoursEditorial Note: See L07752. in the box. My sister brought it to me after I had gone to bed and I fell asleep reading it over and over. I do not know of words to express the blessing and good it brought to me, strengthening, helping, and refreshing when I needed it much.

You know what it means when one is very thirsty to have a cool refreshing drink of pure water;– well that is just how I felt when I read your letter, & more, only I cannot say it. Bless you over & over! Thank you for your love and good wishes expressed there.

When you did not send us permission to come, I knew that it was not best for us to go and that the right time was not yet.

I just long for the day when I shall see your again, but am content to wait. I see you in thought every day and you are never far off.

Your words in the Journal each month come to us as a benediction from the Mountain topCorrected:Mountaintop. You know just what food your children need and so supply and encourage them.

The thought of learning more of Christian Science from you is an inspiration to more energy and faithfulness in the cause of Truth. Thank you so much for telling me this. I hold the thought now that my voice ca [?] Unclear or illegible nnot be lost for there is nothing lost in Truth. Error has no power to succeed in destroying it or making me sing sharp and false in the high register — such is the belief I am fighting now. God did not make me false & I will not be so. Will you please tell me how to treat myself so that I may be thinner? The first time I saw Mrs Woodbury she offered to treat me and asked if I did not want to be rid of a belief of too much flesh. There has been no change in that error.

The cause of Christian Science here still stands & lives, although such an effort has been made to destroy it & stop our work. We all stand together united in one aim. God has abundantly blessed us and delivered us from the hand of our enemyies– God's enemies. You ask me to be patient with Mrs W's shortcomings. I am ready to bear with anyone's shortcomings as mine are borne patiently with but when it comes to the evil that has been done here by her under the name of Christian Science I must not be silent- You have given me permission to write what I please. I do not want to write error, but the "Bible" & "Science & Health"Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy forbid one to cover iniquity. I wonder after her work here she dared to go to look at your face- Through her we have seen demonology in its highest forms. Error has been self revealedCorrected:self-revealed & will be self destroyedCorrected:self-destroyed. May it be soon.

Mrs McBean has had to suffer great trouble also all of us. Mrs W. asked if I was holding services here when the Church of Christ in Boston had been dissolved. She asked me if I had not received notice to that effect. She told me that my love for my Teacher would cause me much suffering, or that through that I would have to suffer. Her malicious attack on Mr Putnam's character was the poorest revenge she could take. She reported here that he asked her to leave her husband and go off with him, and that Mr W. had turned him out of the house. I do not think she knew of Mrs Putnam's condition.- any wayCorrected:anyway soon after she left, Mrs P. was taken ill and confined a month sooner than she ought, we denied the belief of time. She had C. S.Expanded:Christian Science treatment and suffered very little pains- no after pains & the Dr was surprised. Her babe was born with belief of imperfect breathing & bad circulation on account of the placenta being partly decomposed, part of which had to be scraped from uterous Corrected: uterus after. After that Mrs P. had all old beliefs return, heart & lung trouble & inflam; rheumatism. They were quickly destroyed. The Dr told me that baby would not live so then medical law as well as malicious thought had to be destroyed. Mrs Putnam now has no fear & she is saved also the life of this little son who 3 times had the appearance of death, he lives & gains daily, & although wrapped in wadding will soon be able to be dressed in proper clothing. The work of error will fail every time it tries to touch the work for Truth here. It seems hard that so many should suffer & see the patients suffer & hear the people call the error Christian Science & ask why is it acknowledge by Mrs Eddy if it is not C. S.Expanded:Christian Science I cannot explain why. Oh! I need wisdom in this hour. God will supply all our need.

It is so hard to write this letter, I suppose it is because it is about error, the intense dislike I have to send it makes me think it must be right for it to go.

I will ask Dr Eddy not to give it to you to read if he does not think it right. I do want to do only what is right & just & good.

After the silent prayer at our services we repeat the Bible version of the Lord's Prayer, and at the end of services when we finish singing we remain standing & repeat the translation of same prayer from "Science & Health." Will you send us a "bBenediction,"? or is that enough.

We all send you love & gratitude.

There are a very few who walk no more with usJohn 6:66 ¶From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. but they will come back when they find out that the ways of transgressors is hardProv 13:15 Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard. .

No! You shall never be forgotten by me, nor all your patience patience & goodness.

With all the love I know how to send.