Yours received. You are scarcely aware of the blow your letter dealt my expectations, so long I have expected the fulfillment, and so late came the refusal to help us. No publisher now for the Christmas As Written: Christmass offering you caused us all to give people to expect!
Such business disappointments do more harm than one person or many will do good in a life-time. There are points in history that determine battles, character and the fate of empires Somebody is responsible for them. Military codes need to be civil codes to carry out any grand object
Obedience to duty is demanded of us all and God makes the way to perform it
There are various schemes of the enemy on hand; one of them is already accomplished. Another may be defeated if taken in time. A charity scholar whom I have aided is now hired, as I am authentically informed, to canvass As Written: cavass Boston, go to Washington, Maine etc to libel me. I never have collided with this scoundrel in any way since helping him at the urgent request of another – as I supposed good student as much deceived in him as they could be - Gen. Wisewell of the National Hotel Washington has sent me students from the interest he takes in the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. He now has stopped gone back on the very offer he made of help The student he proposed written me she should not come to my class, and his efforts that he told me he should make for our Journal and my books in Washington to help the cause are minus I have taken a little pains to trace it and am credibly informed that Levi Childs now making Boston his home is paid by our enemies to lie for them and that he has been in Washington and MaineAs Written:Me. on this errand. While doing this he treats me with all suavity, attends our meetings etc.
Now I have a favor to ask as I have done before of you will it be granted this time? That is, will you call at the National Hotel – proprietors As Written: propreitors F. Benny & Co to interview Gen. Wisewell He is a stranger to me have only met him twice or thrice and will you tell him the truth of me to offset As Written: offsett their error? Then write me immediately.