Your letter brought my husband back into the “One Mind” – the atmosphere of Christian Science – It was a great blessing to me for my own needs, and failings – but the love between the lines moved him to the first tears – yes, the first softness – that he has known for weeks – We had a weary journey when we wandered away from the right path, and because he sins less easily than I, it is harder for him to get right, but your words have disputed the last cloud in his thought – I have been bravely fighting to help him all these weeks, and was so grateful that you should have taken the precious moments of your time, to lift us up again. We had a bitter experience with the HarrisesEditorial Note: Edward N. Harris and Mary E. Harris – Someday As Written: Some day I will tell you about it – I think if every student had to pay as severely and quickly for their sins of ignorance and folly and blindness as I did they would be as anxious as I to do right –

Mrs. Hopkins has a piece of poetry – “Ode to Christian Science”Editorial Note: There is no evidence that a piece with this title was ever published in The Christian Science Journal. written on purpose for the Magazine – I gave it to her – This a grand theme and a grand piece – I hope it will please you enough for the July MagazineAs Written:Mag. I think the author would feel pleased to see it there - [*]Editorial Note: The following sentence is marked in blue pencil by Mary Baker Eddy. The more I work in public – the more I am convinced that every mesmerist – every hypocrite every sinner any wayward As Written: way ward student hates you because they are afraid of you – You are the Daniel come to judgement and the hand writing on the wall is interpreted to them and it is self-destructionDan 5:1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Dan 5:2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father
Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. Dan 5:3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. Dan 5:4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. Dan 5:5 ¶In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Dan 5:6 Then the king’s countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. Dan 5:7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. Dan 5:8 Then came in all the king’s wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof. Dan 5:9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied. Dan 5:10 ¶Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: Dan 5:11 There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers,
Chaldeans, and soothsayers; Dan 5:12 Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation. Dan 5:13 Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And the king spake and said unto Daniel, Art thou that Daniel, which art of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry? Dan 5:14 I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee. Dan 5:15 And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing: Dan 5:16 And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom. Dan 5:17 ¶Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation. Dan 5:18 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: Dan 5:19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down. Dan 5:20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him: Dan 5:21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. Dan 5:22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this; Dan 5:23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified: Dan 5:24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. Dan 5:25 ¶And this is the writing that was written,
MENE,
MENE,
TEKEL,
UPHARSIN. Dan 5:26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. Dan 5:27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Dan 5:28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. Dan 5:29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. Dan 5:30 ¶In that night was
Belshazzar the king of the
Chaldeans slain. Dan 5:31 And Darius the
Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. I feel it every everywhere As Written: where - This fear of you and of your denomination – Sometimes I think it is all they do fear – this exposure by you –

What is to be the end of this atrocious sin? I tremble for them all – They have but one weapon of defense and that is to defame you personally and as God is above me I think if I never healed another person – but spent my earthly life in setting in her rightful place the woman of His sending I would have earned a crown – Oh my beloved teacher – Can you forget that I have ever halted on the path!

If so believe me that I suffer for my sin and that I will not sleep again at my post – I know my duty now and if I fail to do it – I shall meet my reward –