Learning that you had advertised “Metaphysical healing” as the subject for discourse on the evening of March 15th, and having made the study and practice of Medicine, and the art of healing, my principle business nearly all my life, and feeling as I do, a great interest in this, to me, all absorbing subject, I visited your church and listened with astonishment, wondering if you had, in your zeal to overthrow the teachings of Mrs Eddy, forgotten the commandment “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour”Ex 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. . With this commandment in mind how could you state to your audience “that her teachings advocate free love”? If you have, as you assured your congregation, “read her book” Science and healthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy’ carefully twice” how could you I ask, make such a statement when you must have read in the chapter on marriage, "InfidelityAs Written:Infedility to the marriage covenant is the social scourge of all people, the pestilence that wasteth and walketh at noon day” and again, “The last infirmityAs Written:infirmaty that would fasten itself on Society, to see it hop and hobble under a new burden of guilt, is named, free love” and one more she says, Puritanical honesty and virtue should be the stability of this covenant: Marriage should be the School of virtue, and offspring the germ of Man’s highest Nature”.

Now Rev, Sir, is it true that you fear that this womans teachings will destroy As Written: distroy the principle foundations of your church and belief, has caused you to thus misrepresent and misstate her teachings from the beginning to the close of your discourse?

Having heard of your eloquence and ability, I trusted you would have given this Subject an honest and fair exposition, for which however I listened in vain, but I know that

“Truth crushed to earth will rise again,
The eternal years of God are hers,
But error wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies amid its worshippersAs Written:worshipes,”Editorial Note: This is a slightly inaccurate quotation of a stanza from a poem called "The Battle-Field" by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878). The actual stanza reads, "The Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again;/The eternal years of God are hers;/But error, wounded, writhes with pain,/And dies among his worshippers."

And now hoping that we may have the knowledge of Christ, which alone can free us from the error of sense, sin, sickness & death, and that our lives may be hid with Christ in godCol 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. ,