I have longed for opportunity to answer your good letter. But those less good than yours — demand so much of my time I have to neglect my good Students letters I have been hard at work 5 months pouring oil on the waves, and between times writing a little bookEditorial Note: The book referred to here is Retrospection and Introspection, advertised on page 354 of the November 1891 Christian Science Journal as “a new book, soon from the press”. that you will soon get, it is advertised in the C. S. Journal. I hope your dear husband will not read in this Mag. the Sermon on the first page, it is confusion confoundedEditorial Note: “Confusion worse confounded” is a phrase found in Paradise Lost by John Milton (1608-1674).. Laus DeoEditorial Note: Laus Deo is Latin phrase meaning “Praise be to God.” I have got at last the editor for our Mag. that I want. Mrs. Julia Field King. She is a thorough scholar— College educated in the classics, and a graduate normal student from my College. But more, far more, a true seeker after God– after meekness, purity, Love. Mr & Mrs LinscottEditorial Note: John F. Linscott and Ellen Brown Linscott sent me their card from Denver ColoradoAs Written:Col. last week. I regret that they ever visited London. They were not the students of my As Written: ny choosing As Written: chosing but after having a call to go, and they asked my advice, I of course bade them ask it of God, and do as they thought best. Hoping for them and encouraging them in duty, here or there. A tornado of inward pride and envy is tearing out the heart of Christian Science in many directions today. But God reigns, and I have noble, brave, self-sacrificing As Written: selfsacrificing Students that are firm as the sea girt rock. And on this "Rock" Christ's Church must be builtMatt 16:13 ¶When Jesus came into the coasts of C
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Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? Matt 16:14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others,
Jeremias, or one of the prophets. Matt 16:15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Matt 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. Matt 16:17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar–jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. Matt 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. .

Let us love because we cannot help loving, and be patient because we love to wait on God-