Will you let me thank you for returning the note - If you refuse to take note or money, then both the legal & the moral obligation to pay it is removed - but the privilege yet remains - Not the payment for value received, to personality, but of helping giving to the great Principle which you are teaching human life to reflect - so of the first $500Editorial Note: $500.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $13,333.92 in 2020. I receive from demonstrating Christian Science $300Editorial Note: $300.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $8,000.35 in 2020. shall still be handed you for your – nay for God's - causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. - coming back as I did the 10th leper to "glorify God"Luke 17:11 ¶And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee. Luke 17:12 And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off: Luke 17:13 And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. Luke 17:14 And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed. Luke 17:15 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, Luke 17:16 And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. Luke 17:17 And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? Luke 17:18 There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. Luke 17:19 And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole. , with the "free-will offering" of my "first fruits"Prov 3:9 Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: Prov 3:10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. , even as I myself have "freely received"Matt 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. -

Now as to your request - Tho having a large acquaintance, not one is now in harmony with your Thought, and to rush upon them, tho trying for their own best good, would not be "wise as a serpent"Matt 10:16 ¶Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. .

I must wait for my own demonstrations, to awaken interest and questions among my own Circle - Then I can point to you. This I most certainly will do, trying never to be blind to an opportunity, nor to let it go, when seen -

I marvel greatly at the instinct which led me to persistently desire to learn of you, when; if had followed Reason in the light of the influences leading me toward disaffected (and may I say rootless? - i.e. apparent by flourishing, but perhaps soon fading) branches of this ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, - would have studied elsewhere - More & more as I learn of you, do I feel the mixture of my choice, & the falseness of other claims & assertions, tho possibly am hindered somewhat by these experiences - But if earnest, honest & true, that hindrance will disappear.

Again thanking you, & asking you to call upon me frankly for any thingCorrected:anything I can do, & where I fail, believe it is not lack of desire nor effort, I am,