I have this moment received your last immeasurably precious gift to your children, and after reading the wonderful Dedication and Preface I find myself unable to read more until I have tried to express my gratitude to you. When, during the dear hour spent with you at Pleasant View last autumn, you told us that this treasure was in store for us, we did not know how soon it would be ours. After reading the inspired words which open the book, the thought which surges over me with sorrow is this, "I have been working under the banner of Christian Science for years, & when I see how little I have done for the Cause I am ashamed and bowed down!

Yet, dear Mother, is there not hope in this, that we, thy children are beginning to feel more deeply, by t [?] Unclear or illegible hus "testing our lives by thine", the "spiritual distance" between them? From this lowlier place we may begin again.

In this volume we have all our hearts can wish, or our thoughts learn to understand.

In darkness we shall find here the record of victories which foretell our own; & in joy our hopes shall fly here, to rest with yours in Christian Science.