Your favor of the 23rdEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. at hand. You request that if I am not pleased with your work, that no notice be published & that the price be remitted. (That is satisfactory)[*]Archival Note: Parentheses and underlining in pencil by another hand., but you have sent the work with $300Editorial Note: $3.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $93.40 in 2022. charges which I take to be a mistake. While I may not be prepared to accept at once your views, I certainly cannot deny the good work you are doing, & I am seeking light & want to send it to the world. I was glad to hear what you say of Mrs. Merrick, for I could not believe she represents the Christian Scientists, for she is not a Christian, in her talk at least. Many of her statements are absurd & contrary to established facts, & they hurt her and the cause she represents. I have been thinking very seriously of having my wife go to Boston to take the course in your College as she is a firm believer in the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science & is a woman of remarkable fi aith in prayer, but she is greatly in need of light & of encouragement.

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