I may be intruding upon valuable time but I wish to inform you, that eleven new students have been added to the list of "Christian Scientists" in ElginEditorial Note: Elgin, Illinois - having been under the instructions, of S. J. & J. E. SawyerEditorial Note: Silas J. Sawyer and Jennie E. Sawyer of Milwaukee WisExpanded:Wisconsin.

After the close of the instructions, we organized ourselves into a Society, for further study, feeling yet in the primary department, and that we had but just the faintest glimmer of the new Light - We agreed to meet once every week (Friday evening) to report our doings from week to week, hoping to add to what we had already learned, by listening to reports from each other, gathering strength and courage to go on in the good work, in which we have just commenced -

I cannot describe my feelings since making this scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science a study

It is difficult, sometimes to realize, who, or what I am After having lived half a century with all the old beliefs of mortal mind, that sickness, sin and death are realities, and that drugs and hygiene are the only remedies for disease, and now that drugs and hygiene are opposed to the scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science and act against its Principle. That nothing is real but God, and the idea of Him, that all that is real is formed and governed by one Mind, one Life, Truth and Love that sickness, sin and death, are only beliefs, and what we term the mortal or erring mind is but a belief and error from beginning to end - It has been so hard for me to ignore this body of matter, and refuse to call it anything of consequence, and come into a comprehensible possession of the real body, the real man, that flesh, blood, and bone called matter, is not man, and that the creatorEditorial Note: God never made such a man -

Is it possible to know why we are put into this condition?Editorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy answered this question on page 204 of the February 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal. It was reprinted on pages 64 and 65 of Eddy’s book, Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896.

In the Nov. "Christian Science Journal" under caption of "Light in Truth-"Editorial Note: The article, “Light in Truth” is found on page 140 of the November 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal. I feel as did "E"Editorial Note: “E” is the author of the article, “Light in Truth,” found on page 140 of the November 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal. in the following sentences -- "Christian Science is to me the one theme above all others, but no one entered its portals with less knowledge of it-"

It is the exact utterance of my own thoughts and feelings, and I feel encouraged to know that others have felt the struggle hard to penetrate the thick darkness that seemed to encircle us as we tried to empty ourselves of the old delusions and stricke strike out for this new and beautiful ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science

That we are "reflections of Spiritual Substance, made in the image and likeness of God, that we are not at the mercy of matter and disease, neither can they destroy us" & CExpanded:et cetera - is a great change from the old beliefs of sin, sickness and death - It seems like stepping from the regions of darkness into a glorious light, almost too bright for the hitherto blind eyes to endure or comprehend -

Would it be asking too much for a few lines, for the class, directly from your pen -

We are always so glad to get a line from Doctor, or Mrs Sawyer and it seems to encourage each student - Some of us have had "days of conflict and doubt," but we hope, and trust the day is not far distant, when all will be clear and bright to us -

I will copy from the "Chicago Tribune an article on "Queer Experiments with Drugs-"

At the recent French conference for the advancement of science, some interesting experiments were made on hysterical patients, with drugs, which were not actually administered, but were placed at the backs of the patients heads and were used without their knowledge - Under these circumstances, opium produced sleep, alcohol produced drunkenness and absinthe brought on paralysis of the legs - In women, camphor gave rise to religious ecstacyCorrected:ecstasy, and in men, convulsions - Many drugs were employed, and all of them, gave their characteristic effects, though they were all contained in vials, or wrapped in paper-" How would you account for these results?