Your beautiful letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. rec'dExpanded:received - and it sustains me with the thought that I have your encouragement. I know that I must be sustained by God alone & I constantly fall back on that thought. I want to see Truth as you do; & feel that I grow every day - really I am surprised at the thoughts that come – Your work with me is certainly bearing fruit & I know will bring out everything desired by you – I have treate denied the beliefs, animal magnetism, sensual, malicious mortal mind; the personal, material existence of patient, false religion, time, sex, money, and [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. ⇉ Handshift:Mary Baker Eddy $50Editorial Note: $50.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $1,441.33 in 2021. is what she of first course charge [*]Archival Note: End floating text. ⇉ Handshift:Isabella A. Beecher take up the ten commandmentsEx 20:2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Ex 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Ex 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Ex 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; Ex 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Ex 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Ex 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: Ex 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: Ex 20:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Ex 20:12 ¶Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Ex 20:13 Thou shalt not kill. Ex 20:14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. Ex 20:15 Thou shalt not steal. Ex 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Ex 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. with my patients, to bring out their spiritual meaning to the patient. Thank you ever so much for sending the booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

Mrs. Hill, of PeoriaEditorial Note: Peoria, Illinois, is coming here to teach a class - charges $15Editorial Note: $15.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $432.40 in 2021.. I expect to have a class, what shall I charge-? Miss Hunt, one of Mrs. Hill's students is going to study with me, said she felt so safe when she heard I was coming - wants to begin right away – said she was "starving" for Truth.