4" 23" 1886
Your Circular letter of 17th inst.Editorial Note: This letter is not extant. received & noted. I wrote you a letter Mar 4"Editorial Note: This letter is not extant. Stating that Mrs E. E. Gillin of DenverEditorial Note: Denver, Colorado was my teacher - She was instructed by Drs Wickersham & Sherman of Denver.-, She & her Son-in-lawAs Written:Soninlaw D. F. Coon are practicing in ColoradoAs Written:Col. Springs ColoradoAs Written:Colo. If there was anything wrong or illegal in her teaching me she did not know it, nor I either. Beg pardon for asking you to remember some of my patients in your Communion As Written: Commiunion with God but in my zeal for the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science & my anxiety to make it a success I unwittingly asked what I ought not. I suppose I ought not to have taken these hard cases until I had demonstrated & become firmly established in Truth I am endeavoring to follow your instructions as laid down in S. & H.Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy I took a case of beliefAs Written:beleif in Cancer of the face this week & have just give him a treatment. I do not turn any cases away It seems to me that the Science of LifeEditorial Note: Christian Science would spread like wildfireAs Written:wild fire over this western country & I am Satisfied that your college will reap a large benefit, & I do not have the least desire to detract one iota from the honor due you as the progenitor of this doctrine or as the demonstrator of it. I see you do not make it absolutely necessary to practice one year before attending the Normal course- only advising it, & my object was to save the expense of an extra trip to Boston. which for wife & I would cost us nearly $200.Editorial Note: $200.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $5,765.32 in 2021. extra & we have not got to it give- I would dearly love to get a few lines from yourselfAs Written:your self.