Enclosed find $100Editorial Note: $1.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $26.61 in 2020. to pay for Journal of christian Science one year. Miss Osgood thought if I could take it, it would help me to understand your Books Science and healthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, I got them last October As Written: october and have read and tried to practice As Written: practise what they teach, and do think if I could unload, this load of false As Written: falce beliefs, and error, and let what they the Books teach, take their place, I would have been healed As Written: heald before this, I want to ask a favor of you, and do hope you will grant it, it is your opinion in my case Miss Osgood has treated me now five months As Written: monthes in all and I am now suffering almost continually with asthma and my stomach is worse distresses me almost all the time runs up into my lungs, my right one the worst, and have got so I cannot lay down upon either side without hurting me, feels as though there was something in under my ribs, that swelled them out, so that it is like laying down on a ball or roll As Written: roole of something, and if I fall asleep I go into a kind of nightmare, and almost smother, feel as though there was such a heavy weight upon my breast that I cannot As Written: can not breathe, and runs up into my head and that will ache fearfully almost impossible to raise anything lungs are tight and dry most of all the time now, I used to have a spell of that, and choke very hard, then raise quite freely, and stay so for sometimeAs Written:some time, I do not think Miss Osgood can reach my case or I would begin to have these hard spells less by this time and another As Written: annother thing she does not write as she did at first for in one letter, she told me if I had another As Written: annother choke, if I had a remedy that had relieved As Written: releived me to use it, but added she knew that it would not help or hurt me, and Some other things that, I have thought she had no hope of helping me, in her last letter written the 9th inst, she told me she had placed my case for the two past weeks in the hands of anotherAs Written:annother, one that had been very successful As Written: successfull in asthma cases, but if my letters of that day did not show improvement she should take my, case into her own hands again. I have been choked worse for the three past weeks and ill at it, then I have before at any time during the past five months As Written: monthes that is I have had harder spells for a short time, but this is continuousAs Written:continuious, all this forenoon I was cold and choked so, I could eat but a few As Written: fiew mouthfuls As Written: mouthfulls of dinner and my throat begins to feel very sore As Written: soar right in that lump that moves up and down when you swallow, Now I do not want you to think that I am finding fault with Miss Os – treatment for God does know; How very thankful As Written: thankfull I am to her, for when I was in such trouble to get money, she took my case and has treated me without pay for three months As Written: monthes now, and I do think she has tried to do the very best she could for me, but has failed to reach my case, or, is not curing As Written: cureing me, Still I do think she has helped to bring me up where I am, from my pull back in December, or I never could have got so I could sit up one hour, as I have most every day, until As Written: untill this choking As Written: chokeing began to hang on all the time, now I can’t As Written: cant move without As Written: with out getting so out of breath, that I think it is my last, and my life shall praise her while I have breath, she says she is willing that I should place my case in the hands of anotherAs Written:annother, or will treat me as long as I want her to, and I am suffering so much and do feel so very anxious to get out of it, in some way, is why I have asked you to assist me, by telling me if you think any of your students can help me, or would take my case, I have no faith in drugs, or anything but the power of Almighty God to reach and destroy this diseaseAs Written:desease, and when I read your books my faith grows so strong at times I think nothing can prevent my being healedAs Written:heald, oh how I do wish you could find time to look at me, and unloose these bandsIsa 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? from my breast and let this captive freeLuke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, , the dogs partake, of the crumbs that fall from their masters tableMatt 15:21 ¶Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. Matt 15:22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. Matt 15:23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. Matt 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Matt 15:25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. Matt 15:26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs. Matt 15:27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table. Matt 15:28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour. Mark 7:24 ¶And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid. Mark 7:25 For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: Mark 7:26 The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. Mark 7:27 But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. Mark 7:28 And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs. Mark 7:29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. Mark 7:30 And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed. . I have now written a long letter and been a long time doing it, and do please and not pass me by unnoticed for I am suffering fearfully all the time, no rest day or night oh that there might a change come soon some way, I shall be so very thankful As Written: thankfull for any assistance or advice from you,