June. 16", 1886,
Was much pleased to receive your kind acknowledgementEditorial Note: This letter is not extant., yesterday. I should be more than happy to enter your class in Autumn but have not the means to do so. Mr Churchill would like to enter with me. We hoped it might be done in: perhaps, a year but the withdrawal of your old proposal places it indefinitely, beyond that. We are a young couple, just starting in life, & believing the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science to be the one true way we want the understanding of this Truth to help us onward & upward. Mr C. is not for himself & entering the class will necessitate a loss of time, beside our expenses while in Boston; so, we must possess our souls in patienceLuke 21:19 In your patience possess ye your souls. , hoping, sometimeAs Written:some time, we may have the pleasure of listening to your personal instructions. It is worth, as you say, much more than the fee demanded & we would have been glad to have entered your class before this, had we been able.
Hoping that all obstacles will, soon, be overcome that stand in the way of the ScientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists possessing a church of their own, I remain, for the CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science.