Your delightful book, "Miscellaneous Writings," came to hand yesterday in an order of one hundred copies, which we received from the publisher. The book is highly characteristic. Words fail to express what I see in it of practical and vital value to the workers in the vineyardMatt 20:1 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. Matt 20:2 And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. Matt 20:3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, Matt 20:4 And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. Matt 20:5 Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. Matt 20:6 And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? Matt 20:7 They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive. Matt 20:8 So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. Matt 20:9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. Matt 20:10 But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny. Matt 20:11 And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house, Matt 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. Matt 20:13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? Matt 20:14 Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Matt 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? Matt 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. of Christian Science, and to those of us who have grown to see the great necessity of turning students and inquirers more and more to your writings. As I go over the pages of this book I see the sturdy and characteristic evidences of your Puritanism, and your love of country, home, and all that goes to make up the nobility and sweetness of our loved New England thought. What section of our blessed land has been the battlefield for liberty, spirituality, and freedom in as great a degree as has the dear old Bay StateEditorial Note: Massachusetts and your own New Hampshire? Spiritually considered, the book appears to me as a great mountain of practical Christian Science, to be ascended through the ways and means, through the practical footsteps portrayed on every page of this most valuable addition to our literature. The book will save us, as field-workers, hours of time that we have been forced heretofore to give to explanation and answering vital questions about Christian Science. That section of the book called "Questions and AnswersEditorial Note: "Questions and Answers" is Chapter III of Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896 on pages 31-94." is unusually valuable and will prove of inestimable worth to all searchers for Truth. The broad liberalism of the book especially delights me. There is a rounded and symmetrical handling of all questions that relate to the science of Christianity that will appeal in an especially strong way to the deep thinkers of the hour, and will without doubt startle the thought of those who have erroneously affirmed that the weak point of Christian Science was its narrowness. The evangelical character of the book is especially strong, for by unanswerable spiritual argument, and with the beauty of metaphysical revelation, the book, as a whole, shows that the teachings of Jesus are nothing if not scientific, and that in Christian Science, in this age, we have the truly evangelical interpretation and demonstration of the tenets of his teachings. From a philosophical and scientific standpoint the book especially pleases me. With a courageous and strong hand you make your case simply unanswerable, and demonstrate with your logic, reason, and science, transcending the limitations of the finite mind and intellectual vagaries, the great Truth that Science and Christianity are one.

I hail with joy the tendency that I see in all that you are doing, and in all that you are writing, toward the establishment of a more impersonal understanding of Christian Science, and toward the exaltation of individuality, individual freedom, and the gradual elimination of the element of personality in the ways and means of practical Christian Science; and I hopefully and prayerfully watch for the hour when our field-workers and co-laborers,-- yea, all Christian Scientists, -- will gain clearer views of this great question of the government of individual character and the CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. by the practical operation of the divine pPrinciple revealed through your writings and demonstrated step by step by you in your career.

In closing, I would beg to say that I feel the utter impossibility to express in words my personal and deep gratitude for this book, and feel that our church and all the Christian Scientists of the world unite in deep gratitude for this your last gift to us.

Thanking you from the depths of my heart for all your love, watchfulness, tenderness, example, and care, and with love from Mrs. Stetson and myself, believe me,