Your very kind favorEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. came to hand in due season, and will try as best I may to reply to the question asked concerning Dr Dunlap

I write with some disadvantage as I crushed the end of my forefingerAs Written:fore finger on the right hand in my machine, and although it is healing rapidly it is still done up, therefore you will excuse all imperfections. After I answer your question, I would like you to answer one for me, and I shall be guided fully by your counsel. As I wrote you in a previous letter, we thought much of Dr Dunlap, on account of his spiritual mindedness and Since his study of Metaphysics, he is always so anxious to know everything especially your word, and seemed to make it his law. and he is the only one that I had any comfort in conversing with, as those in this town that Mrs Rice taught with one exception are all spiritualists and most of them very illiterate. Mrs Smith the one who sent for the booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, may possibly write her own name She has a daughter that acts as her Amanuensis she has hurt the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science in this town more than anyoneAs Written:any one else, she is a rank Spiritualist, and wheneverAs Written:when ever that class of people come here, she and a Mrs Banks attends their circles and about six weeks ago Mrs Banks and Mrs Smith called on a party of them that came to town for a few days, and Mrs Banks had what they term a trance, I heard of it and called on her to see what she had to say. she said she was told she was under controlEditorial Note: Spiritualist mediums who are known as full trance or deep trance mediums claim to enter into a trance in which they lose consciousness and another personality, called a “control,” speaks through them. “Controls” claim to be spirits who function to convey messages from other spirits who are not capable of controlling the medium. Spiritualists tend to take these controls at face value, while some parapsychologists and psychical researchers believe them to likely be secondary personalities created by the subconscious mind of the medium., and was not accountable far what she did, I advised her to call herself a spiritualist and not a ScientistEditorial Note: Christian Scientist so she would not deceive the people, as I felt ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science was too As Written: to holy a thing to be contaminated As Written: contamunated by such proceeding, or such people, and that I certainly wiped every such one out of my acquaintances. I would not touch, taste, or handle the unclean thingII Cor 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, . and of course that ends our friendship. They were all, (in the number Mrs Rice taught) strangers to me, never having met one of them before, but have had occasion to meet them several times since as ScientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists, but as soon as I hear what their real belief is I must let them alone, so incur in more ways than one their displeasure, Now the question I would like to ask you is this, am I right in & doing

Your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and writings are my law, and it was always my belief, that God’s government is a universal one, that there is no soul in my body, thereforeAs Written:there fore cannot be spirits, Your doctrineEditorial Note: Christian Science I believe I can’t As Written: cant say I believe anythingAs Written:any thing I can’t As Written: cant accept and live up to but I find everyoneAs Written:every one here without a single exception, have filthy lucreI Tim 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; I Tim 3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; Titus 1:8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; Titus 1:9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. Titus 1:10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Titus 1:11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake. in their mind instead of God. some think me a little too pronounced, but I am an enthusiast in anything I believe, and my Soul glory’s in, that which is of God, good, pure and elevating.

I know very little about Spiritualism, and all I do know or have seen, is sensual, deceiving, unholy ministering to matter instead of Soul, and demoralizing and I will have none of it

Your teachings As Written: teaching are in accord with my sentiments as I understand them and myselfAs Written:my self which gives me boldness to confront any ism and if I am not right will you as a Christian teacher tell me, I shall consider it a great favor

Now as regards Dr D.Editorial Note: Dr. Dunlap I had occasion to go to the city some three weeks since and I have been told by a number that he was a spiritualist and of course I have denied it, as I know him to be a regular attendant at Church and Bible class, and an interested Searcher for Truth At all events I thought I would make bold and ask him, plainly, "Do you believe in personal spirits his reply was, I do I see them I said I thought you were such a believer in Mrs eddy's teachings. She says there are no such things he said, "I believe Mrs Eddy to be one of the grandest mediums the world has ever known. I think if a bullet had went whizzing through my brain, I could not have been more dazed and sat for some minutes unable to collect myself and he commenced some explanation in regard to Spiritualism but I had not sufficiently recovered myself to comprehend what he said, and a rap came at the door and a lady entered, and I came out, and told him if I remained down I would go in again, but to be truthful with you I could not get the consent of my mind to go, and have not written him a line and I feel as if I had never known him, I can’t As Written: cant recover from the disappointment. Now what shall I do give heed to my own feelings or Suppress them, You can’t As Written: cant imagine how averse I am about giving them one bit of knowledge as my experience is they bring it into bad repute, and use it not for the glory of God but their own full purpose, and I believe it better to be a little more guarded about converting them, as I have not found a single one here but what try to make it over to their beliefs.

The DrEditorial Note: Dr. Dunlap said he had written you, and was waiting a reply, and was expecting to join the sept class, but of course that will be optional with you

Had I known of his beliefs I certainly would not have given him any encouragement nor recommended him to you.

As it is vacation with you I hope you will have leisure to give your views of Dr D.sEditorial Note: Dr. Dunlap’s case and my own also, as I shall be guided by your views of the case

Hoping I have not wearied you, by much writing I shall anxiously await a reply.