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1. You are well rid of Mr. H. His letter to you was probably a blind to cover a fresh departure.
2. Please send questions &cEditorial Note: This is a reference to Eddy’s “Questions and Answers” column in The Christian Science Journal for May as soon as possible. You know we go to press the Wed. before the 1st. Sat. in the month – i.e. next Wed.
3. Agreeably to yourAs Written:yr request last Mon; I have seen Mr. Gill. He is free – having virtually left the Methodist EpiscopalAs Written:M. E. Conference. Today he is to meet the Unitarian leaders, & may preach as a supply in a pulpit or two, but that is by no means decided. On Mon. he is to read his last paper to some Methodist body. The Conference (to which he belongs) has not yet met,. but soon does meet. He would like to meet you on Mon. p. m. at 2 o'clock, for a conference - about yr chh. It is his special request that I shouldAs Written:shd meet with you; if agreeable to yourself; because there are one or two points of opinion which he wishes to talk over, & he is anxious to be fully understood in regard to them; & he thinks that if you & I both agree that he is in practical accord with yourAs Written:yr views, there can be no doubt on the subject.
He says that he regards Christian ScienceAs Written:Chr. Sci. as the highest movement of the day; & believes in relinquishing drugs.
In preaching he wouldAs Written:wd not confine himself to exposition of Christian ScienceAs Written:Chr. Sci., but wouldAs Written:wd take up practical themes, and treat them from the standpoint of Idealism. – whichAs Written:wch he thoroughly understands.
Lest you shouldAs Written:shd misunderstand the points he wishes to talk about, I will mention one – perhaps the chief, – sin.
You say, "God cannot see sin." He thinks God must know sin is a human error, else He could not heal it. I tell Mr Gill that by God's not seeing sin, you use these words in the Bible sense, in such passages as "God is of too pure eyes to behold iniquity." et ceteraAs Written:&c; or as we say, "I do not see it," when we deny a claim made upon for us for a certain course. As God is omniscient – all knowing – He of course knows that His children do not always obey his commands, & in that sense he sees their disobedience; as the Bible says in many places, such as "the thing was evil in the eyes of the Lord", & "the eyes of the Lord are on the evil kingdom;" but God does not see evil in the sense of any acknowledgment of its claim. – If I apprehend rightly your accordance with the Bible in this respect; I think you & Mr. Gill wouldAs Written:wd practically agree.
Should any arrangement be made for the autumn, he wouldAs Written:wd live in yourAs Written:yr neighborhood for a whileAs Written:awhile, where he couldAs Written:cd call frequently & consult you about the ideas he proposed preaching from Sunday to Sunday, till you knew where he stood.
About his membership of yr Association, he tells me that he only did not sign application because he supposed it couldAs Written:cd not be acted upon for a month, & he wished to be unpledged till he had written to his Bishop – as he has since done.
If you do not object thereto, you may expect to see Mr. G. next Tues. – & I will meet him at yr house, if that is acceptable to you-
P. S.
I am more & more impressed with Mr. G's fitness to make a mark for yr chh in BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts; & he is a man so well posted in the premises (as you have seen) that he is capable of
teaching others who have less light- I did not speak to him of the Sunday School,
but I think he wouldAs Written:wd do a good work there, &
yr hands wd be ably upheldEx 17:8 ¶Then came
Amalek, and fought with Israel in
Rephidim. Ex 17:9 And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to-morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
Ex 17:10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. Ex 17:11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when
he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. Ex 17:12 But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on
the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the
going down of the sun. Ex 17:13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. .