Why I telegraphed was that a publicationEditorial Note: The Mind Cure and Science of Life (later renamed Mental Science Monthly) is started in Chicago under claim of an exMethodist Minster as EditorAs Written:Ed. that lays down the glove to our Journal, College, etc — and a competent Editor and a live man is needed now. Delays are inevitable I suppose, but awful disastrousAs Written:disasterous in battle. I knew this move would be made soon, and that was why I wanted my side fairly represented in the campaign of contending candidates for what they are totally incapable of, and come into the hour only as "thieves and robbers" climbing up some other way, unwilling to enter in by the doorJohn 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. . Our Church services are to be opened next Sabbath by Mr. Frye or Buswell . My classes hinder me from commencing so early. Want you here to participate in this service also. Wrote you the last day of SeptemberEditorial Note: See L02072. did you get my letter?

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