I have been so fully occupied and so absorbed in business that I have neglected all my correspondents until now.

I received a Mag.Expanded:Magazine from you and please accept many thanks, it was interesting in many parts. There are gems of truth even in the Shaker medlyCorrected:medley. When the great harvest comes which shall devide Corrected: divide truth from error what a glorious time some bodyCorrected:somebody will have of it to live in that age; Oh! but the selfishness, the cupidity, the wrong of this time will take a severe cudgeling before then

My volumeEditorial Note: This is a reference to a manuscript Mary Baker Eddy called the “Science of Soul.” A copy of it is not extant. is finished, Sarah, and ready for the press & the out cryCorrected:outcry that will follow it; first the ridicule, then the argument, and lastly the adoption by the public but it may be long ere the public get it Richard writes you are ready to study this Science; our old agreement is lost by some means and I have made out a similar one or at least have told Richard the spirit and tenor of that.

You will remember doubtless that you assured me if you learned this that you would practice, now an agreement on an "if you practice" is virtually asking no recompense but leaving it to charity So I have included this obligation in writing [?] Unclear or illegible  that you verbally agreed with me; in all else it is the same. I hope you will become a "shining light" and that we at length may be brethren as we have before been named sisters. I am waiting to make up my mind where to go a journey I need the change there are two invalids in this family not, not invalids now but had it not been for this glorious science both of them would have left us long ere this, and I feel them constantly calling and receiving from me. I only wish I were able to launch into the fullness of ChristEph 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; Eph 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: and embrace the whole world in my love