Chicago Ill
Sept 22nd/ 86
That I feel you are althoughAs Written:altho' we have not seen each other. You are my friend because you have benefited me, and because I know you "love your neighbor as yourself."Lev 19:18 ¶Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord. Mark 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. You are my teacher because I have learned from your book Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.– what Life is, what I am, what I am capable of. I thought before that I was a Christian according to the old meaning of the word, but your book has taught me God. With all my heart I thank you and shall always love you. I hope somedayAs Written:some day to see you, I have taken a course in Christian Science but I find it is all in your book and the Bible, both of which are a daily study with me. Over and over do I read your book, each time a new and beautiful light dawns. I aim to follow your instructions to the letter. I have a number of patients and my life is bound up in the glorious work. O, what darkness mortal mind is groping in! How they need the light of Christian Science to point them the way to "Life- everlasting"! I have one patient who is a friend, I am treating him for a stiff (?) knee. The Doctors pronounce it incurable, they say the lubricating fluid of the knee joint is solidified, that the kneecapAs Written:knee cap cannot move. It has been in this condition for eighteen years, was left so by a long severe case of inflammatory As Written: inflamatory rheumatism. Doubtless you have had a number such cases, I hear they are rather common. I do not get on with it as I expected. Is it my fault? Is it possible for you dear Mrs Eddy to help me with it in any way? If I could tell you on paper how I long to see my friend enjoying the freedom and harmony in which God gave him, I should be able to make you understand better. I saw in your book of an instance or two where you kindly lent the aid of your experience and spirituality in restoring patients of others, and I thought perhaps you would do so for me in this my difficult case. His name is Fred. A. Small with Kammerer & Co.Editorial Note: F. G. Kammerer & Company was started in 1880 in Chicago, Illinois, by Frank G. Kammerer, a member and director of the Chicago Board of Trade. It was a grain and pork trading firm. Councilman Building Chicago. He is about forty years of age. Will you help me?
SomedayAs Written:Some day in the not far distant future I hope to be a personal student of yours. My home has been in New York City, have lived here about a year. When we return East which we expect to do somedayAs Written:some day. I shall come to BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts in the hope of taking the advanced course in Christian Science with you.