I thank you for the interesting quaint sketch of your revered father, the Rev. Nathaniel Bouton D.D. and also for his portrait that does him justice — the long high head, the calm deep eyes, the tall slender form that I used to see in ye old time, the golden days of girlhood.

The religion that he taught and lived, I honor and love. It was the vestibule of Christian Science. The perfect life of our LordEditorial Note: Jesus Christ was its predicate and Christian Science its ultimate, even the inner sanctuary of that life wherein and whereby those greater works that our Master prophesied would be doneJohn 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. , are to be done, and the Principle explained on which they were wrought. Thus removing Christ's efficacy that heals and saves, from a person, to the divine Principle of the man of sorrowsIsa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. , and giving it to God, who is Love, and is reflected in love for God and man.

I trust you are enjoying this sweet season in Concord. Had I the leisure for society I should much enjoy having you visit me at Pleasant View.