I came to this VillageEditorial Note: Madison, Maine last evening by request. I had three patients here and through them I came as several had expressed a desire to be treated. one lady that I am treating asked me the question last evening if those healed by Christian ScienceAs Written:C. S. were as selfish as those healed with drugs? She is being healed and her heart is all aglow in behalf of those who are suffering. her remark to me was this I expect I shall shock people especially As Written: especally those of ny her society (Methodists) for I do not believe in eternal punishment. I said not in the light that you had understood eternal punishment. I said as long as sin remains punishment remains. punishment As Written: punishmet never ceases while there is sin when sin is overcome with good there will be nothing to punish. punishment is eternal in its right sense. ('Did I say right?) By this mail I have sent her subscription for the Journal she is going to have S & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Praise God for every token of coming day. I was sent for in a neighboring town but when I got there those that had asked a friend to send for me, never came at all I remained a few days and was intending to go home but an unexpected door was opened for me here. May I be permitted As Written: permited to do much good for the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. here.

I. have not had the opportunity to teach yet. I am trying to do good as I have opportunity and my labor has not been in vainI Cor 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. . "He is faithful who has promisedHeb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) Heb 11:11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. ." I rejoiced to read in the May No. of the Journal the testimony of the Rev,sEditorial Note: The life-stories of two ministers who had gravitated to Christian Science, Joseph A. Adams and William I Gill, are featured in the May 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal.

God speed the glorious work.

I. will enclose As Written: inclose in this letter $16.00Editorial Note: $16.00 in 1886 is the equivalent of $498.14 in 2022. please send me six volumes of S. & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy by the American Express. please send as soon as possible I have sold one volume and send for the others hoping to sell them.