Yours received I am glad you have had the wisdom to write me before taking so important a step as the one spoken of in your letter w

This is the only course you can persue Corrected: pursue to the advantage of the Cause of Christian Science. Go on a lecturing tour but leave your wife at her pres t ent post of duty. Do not for any consideration let her desert the Post that I sent you to her to sustain. Her position was then assailed by Animal Mag. she was silently being influenced to suffer for her fidelity to it, but I beat them by my movement.

Now they are turning on me with this scheme to get her out of Chicago. I object to it, yea, more, I send absolute orders for one of you to remain in Chicago And this I know as tho [?] Unclear or illegible roughly as I know there is a God that every one Corrected: everyone who has or who will go counter to my suggestions will lose their way and finally make ship wreck Corrected: shipwreck

The evil that combats all my movements for God has arranged this pogram Corrected: program for you. Others of my students in the West are writing me that their tuition will be paid for them to take a 3-years' Course in Theology, asking my advice!!!

Others East are entering without asking advice Medical Schools for 3 years!!!

The devil has agreed on three years in which to get space to spoil God's work

Now I take my stand for the blessed Christ, and stronger for all this [?] Unclear or illegible  silent wire pulling Corrected: wire-pulling and say [?] Unclear or illegible (that every one Corrected: everyone who walks countre Corrected: counter to His connands Corrected: commands , and my recommendations I shall class with the enemy and we will know at last who is working unselfishly. Instead of retiring (after long years of hardships unconceived of-) to peace and rest I have taken the hardest field of labor that I ever took. All at the utter sacrifice of self. Am I the only one to take up a crossMatt 16:24 ¶Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. Mark 8:34 ¶And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. Luke 9:23 ¶And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. Luke 14:27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. ? This do and God will bless it and you too. Come to my next Normal Class. You are not yet clear as you should be. Lecture until then, and send every advanced mind, morally fit, to me to prepare for the ArmageddonRev 16:16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. that is near.. Let your wife remain at her SchoolEditorial Note: Chicago Christian Science Institute and not leave it for any length of time in 3 years. Help your leader who has borne the burden in the heat of the dayMatt 20:12 Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. - to get recruits for the army that has be [?] Unclear or illegible en demoralized and br [?] Unclear or illegible oken its ranks. Do this until I can get sufficient force to hold against the foe. Then I will take my rest and you shall take your place as one who has earned his buttons I thought you would remember these pledges of yours without being reminded. I thought Ellen would feel differently towards one who [?] Unclear or illegible has been to her a friend in need more times than one

I confe [?] Unclear or illegible ss to being disappointed unless you take my advice in this letter and follow it to the letter. I know it is God's dictating, t what I have written.