I send report of July meeting, as you did not receive it.

Regular meeting of the C.S.A. of Chi.Editorial Note: The Christian Scientist Association of Chicago was a branch of the Christian Scientist Association in Boston, Massachusetts. held at the rooms of Mrs. Philbrick and Miss Beecher, Thurs. July 2, 4.25 P.M. Pres. Brown in chair. 12 membersAs Written:mem. out of 17 present. Meeting opened by Lord's PrayerMatt 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Matt 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Matt 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread. Matt 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. Matt 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. . Minutes of previous meeting read & accepted.

The sec. wrote as directed for latest constitutionAs Written:cons; of Boston C.S.A. & receivedAs Written:rec'd word one would be sent soon.

LetterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. from . Eddy to the sec. read desiring us to keep our names clear before the public & separate from those who would mix error with truth, & to answerAs Written:ans Swartz' accusation of plagiarism (on Mrs. Eddy's part) in all the leading newspapers. Miss Brown then said she had receivedAs Written:rec'd a letter from Mrs. Eddy of the same substance as one read. Miss Brown had already answeredAs Written:ans. Mrs. Eddy that Swartz was a spiritualist, & his magazineEditorial Note: The Mind Cure and Science of Life (later renamed Mental Science Magazine). was read only by spiritualists & not by those who understood scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science; that we could only stop him when we stopped spiritualism, which we could not do at once; but that we would do all we could. Miss Brown then spoke of her personal experience with Swartz; he used her name as a reference in Battle Creek, MichiganAs Written:Mich. after she had cured several there & she denied (to the people there) his claim as a scientistEditorial Note: Christian Scientist. The sec. then read a little article written by the editor of the "Call" of Battle Creek, stating that his wife had been cured by Swartz. At Battle Creek, where Mrs. Eddy & ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science is well thought of & recognized by the people, Mr. Swartz will endorse Mrs. Eddy & the scientistEditorial Note: Christian Scientist & pretend to be one of them. He is all things to all menI Cor 9:22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. .

The articleAs Written:art. "How genuine except Mrs. Eddy, in the Sunday Herald, June 28, was read by sec.

Two articlesAs Written:art. in Mind in NatureEditorial Note: Mind in Nature was a periodical published at the time by the Cosmic Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois. Its full title was Mind in Nature: A Popular Journal of Psychical, Medical, and Scientific Information. were well spoken of; one by Rev. Mr. Slade & the other by Mr. Waterman, answering Miss AlcottEditorial Note: Louisa May Alcott & others.

Discussion of best way to fulfill Mrs. Eddy's request. Miss Brown did not write the articleAs Written:art. in the Herald, but procured its free publication.

It was left to Miss Brown to have another articleAs Written:art. written & published in some paper.

Dr. R. Sherman informed the meeting that he considered himself as much to blame for discussion of faith cure as Mr. Morrill, Miss Brown, however, had requested Mr. Morrill not to discuss faith-cure & theologyAs Written:theol. but he had disobeyed.

After some discussion it was moved & sec. to fine tardy membersAs Written:mem. 25Editorial Note: $0.25 in 1885 is the equivalent of $6.67 in 2020.¢ carried.

Miss Brown then gave the meeting some instruction in regard to mal. mes - & several minutesAs Written:min. were devoted to mental work.

Moved & sec. absent membersAs Written:mem. be fined 25Editorial Note: $0.25 in 1885 is the equivalent of $6.67 in 2020.¢ carried.

B. Sherman proposes Walter W. Dodge, Mrs. Lizzie Gooding, Mr. Chas. Beebe, Mrs. Philbrick proposes Mr. Jas. Whitehead. Mrs. Noyes proposes Mrs. Berenice H. Goodall, student of Mrs. Bartlett.

Report of cases, questionsAs Written:ques & answersAs Written:ans -

Miss Brown asked Mrs. Locke how she was getting along - she is not doing much now. Mrs. Goodall will be admitted when endorsed by Mrs. Eddy as a student of Mrs. Bartlett.

Miss Brown asks, "Can two scientists treat the same patient alternately & scientifically. R. Sherman thinks it would not be productive of the best results. B. Sherman thinks the sum of the truth presented by each would take effect. He does not see any objection; he & his wife have treated same patient.

Miss Brown then explains that mal. mes. is like a mob attacking one person; that you have to force the mob back & sometimes have to have help to do so; then turn to the person attacked & calm his fears. She then repeated what Mrs. Eddy says: "that the only way for two to treat one patient, is for one to treat practitioner & latter treat patient. She mentioned that Jesus sent out his disciples two by twoMark 6:7 ¶And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits; Luke 10:1 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. , Mrs. Noyes gave her opinion that no one could take one of her patients satisfactorily, because they would not know at what point to take up the treatment whether chem.Editorial Note: This is a reference to “chemicalization.” Chemicalization is a term Mary Baker Eddy used to refer to a temporary stirring up of symptoms or process of “fermentation” as errors of various types are being destroyed., mal. mes., or disease.

Miss Brown has circulated 3500 "Defenses of C.S." since last meeting, at her own expense. She wants help in the expense of distributing "Hist, Sketch." Remark: This is better than an answerAs Written:ans. to Swartz. It was remarked that so many who had the booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy while taking treatment were continually asking questions & yet they want to hold on to matter. Miss Brown, Mrs. Philbrick & Mrs. Noyes are of the opinion that discretion should be used in letting patients read the booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy before they are healed; some patients are much more receptive of truth than others.

Miss Brown spoke of two cases of hers which were hindered; one a lady, by a constant fear & horror of meeting a certain mesmerist she saw, when young. Another, a man, was very much troubled over a son who had been expelled from college; when these thoughts had been destroyed the cases advanced all right. Roger Sherman remarked how a patient will be driven by the treatment to tell remote causes, without being questioned. Mrs. Philbrick told a case of hers; a young lady told her, without questioning, of her grandmother over in Germany being bewitched this being the remote cause of a trouble which the young lady had. She has improved ever since. 1st el. art. 2. sec. 2 read, & meeting adjournedAs Written:adj. to Aug 6.