I found your letter on my return; also the copies of your letters to Messers Bonney and Barrows.

I send by express today your original addressEditorial Note: On September 22, 1893, Septimus J. Hanna read Eddy’s address to the World's Parliament of Religions at The World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. and the Dr's compilation as far as I preserved his notes. In arranging the compilation it was necessary to cut down a great deal and I did not preserve the notes not used.

We sent you a copy of the Inter OceanEditorial Note: Chicago Inter Ocean containing the report of the proceedings before the ParliamentEditorial Note: The World's Parliament of Religions at The World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, and the letter of correction. Our hope was that you would not have received the first one until you also received the correction. It seems, however, that you did. I enclose another copy and also the one containing my card and an editorial reference to the errorEditorial Note: These items are not extant.. Also a slip from the HeraldEditorial Note: Chicago Herald. This was published also in the TimesEditorial Note: Chicago Times, TribuneEditorial Note: Chicago Daily Tribune and all the papers which had given any synopsis of the address. We knew of no other way of correcting the unfortunate omission.

I am not especially familiar with the copyright laws, but it seems to me on general principles, that the portions of your address extracted from your works are protected without a special reservation. It remains a fact that your works are copyrighted, and the omission to so state does not change the fact. But I feel sure also that the address on this occasion having been delivered in public, the newspapers would have a right to publish it notwithstanding the copyright. The only way to have prevented them from doing so would have been not to have presented the address. Hence I did not think it important to have the fact appear in the newspapers that parts of the address were copyrighted, although if they had published the addendum as they should have done this fact would have appeared. As I stated in my former letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant., the alternative stared us in the face of relying on a garbled stenographic report, or giving them a correct copy which would ensure at least a better report than the other method. We adopted the latter believing it to be the best, and I still think it was the only wise thing to do. I regretted, however, most keenly, and still regret that the fact that parts of the address were copyrighted was not mentioned, notwithstanding it would not, as I believe, have made any difference so far as the law is concerned.

Yet in view of all the rush and jam and the crowded condition of the nrewspapers, I think we have reason to be thankful to them for their courteous treatment of us,- that is the Inter Ocean and Herald. The others did not treat us as well in their report of the proceedings. Of all the addresses delivered before the Parliament, yours was the only one which the Inter Ocean published in full.

As I telegraphed you, Mr. Kimball and myself had the errors to which you called attention corrected. I have not yet seen the paper containing it, but Mr. K. said he would send you one and me also.

I regret that matters were not carried out to your satisfaction. I cannot but think that you have not yet received a fair statement of the whole matter. It is a trueism Corrected: truism that fools rush in where angels fear to treadEditorial Note: This saying is from "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope., and evidently with undue zeal some of your would-be zealous students have reported stuff which had better been left unreported. If indeed they have not garbled and miserepresented. I understand M. Bettie Bell assumed to give what Joseph Cook said about you. This you refer to in your letter to Mr. BonneyEditorial Note: See L09475.. I heard a mere rumour to the effect that while he was going down stairsCorrected:downstairs after the meeting, he made some remark to the effect reported, but it was passed around in the midst of an excited state of mind, and may have been entirely distorted. But suppose he did say it, what matter? He was beside himself with rage because he had been compelled to listen to so much from you, when he had flattered himself that he had choked you off. In any event it seems to me it would have been better for some oneCorrected:someone not under the claim of deafness [*]Archival Note: The following text was later added to the document by another annotator, disrupting the surrounding thought. ⇉ Handshift:Unknown Mrs Bell [*]Archival Note: End floating text. ⇉ Handshift:Typewritten to have assumed the duty of reporting to you what he said.

I cannot but regret, that acting under a onesided Corrected: one-sided and most likely distorted report and conception of the occasion, you should have given enough importance to the matter to have called Mr. Bonney's attention to it, and made an implied threat of legal proceedings. I cannot think if you had waited until a calmer moment governed that you would have been thus impelled. Nor do I think that under cololer moments you would have written letters to these gentlemen which [?] Unclear or illegible  seem to be contradictory.

In your letter to Mr. Bonney you say: "I was in the first instance opposed to having my students in Christian Science . . . take part in the World's Fair."

In your letter to Dr. BarrowsEditorial Note: See L02579. you say: "I was opposed to having my numerous students take part in this worldly Fair, but yielded to their views on this subject. I cannot see that it is a fit opportunity to test the heart of Christianity, but I may be mistaken."

These gentlemen if they should compare these letters could not but see the discrepancy and you would again be misjudged, for they wiould judge only from the standpoint of men of affairs in the world.

The latter statement would cast the whole responsibility upon the students who were active in this matter. This taken in connection with the other statement that "the ambition of your students was touched," places all of us who have been laboring infor what we conscientiously believed to be your wishes and the best interests of the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science., in the position of subserving rather our own ambitious ends. In view of the history of this matter I feel the accusation to be unjust and cruel. It surely was not our loving Mother who said that. She must have been laboring under a temporarily mistaken view of the matter. If I was capable of understanding anything about your wishes [?] Unclear or illegible  they were this: First, if we were to be the only Christian Scientists recognized, and second, if we were permitted to make a presentation of Christian Science to the General Parliament, we should proceed; otherwise not. This surely was the tenor of your letters; and was the effect of all the correspondence between Mr. Kimball and myself from that stage on. I distinctly told him it was my understanding of your wishes, and unless [?] Unclear or illegible  he could bring these about the whole matter must be dropped. With a faithfulness and skill which I have never known equaled, and through a chain of circumstances which seemed to me to be God‑directed, he secured all that was required.

Now to have him placed in the attitude of a disobedient and over-ambitious student, and that too before the gentlemen with whom he was brought in contact and with whom he labored, is so repugnant to my sense of justice, that I feel that I should be cowardly and servile not to enter my protest against it. I believe as I believe in God that he acted with entirely disinterested motives. I know that so far as I was connected with the matter I did, and I know further that I should most gladly have been relieved of all connection with it, for it was an oredeal for which I did not feel myself prepared and which belonged to other and older students, and especially students who had been taught by you. Only from a sense of what I believed to bey my duty and your wishes did I act. If the cruel stab in the very centre of my heart is a necessary part of my crossbearingCorrected:cross-bearing, I ch [?] Unclear or illegible eerfully submit, but I have yet to see the necessity for it.

I feel that we all, and especially the Dr. Mr. K. and myself, upon whom the burden seemed chiefly to fall, acted with the most disinterested purpose and endeavored to carry out your wishes strictly. In view of all we had to meet and contend with, I am wholly [?] Unclear or illegible unable to see that we were not fairly successful.

I believe the matter to have been God‑appointed. I believe it to be fulfillment of prophecy. I believe it to have been a part of your great mission. I believe that for the first time in the world's history the Gospel was preached to all nations in a day. If one could have evidence that he was moved and protCected by divine power, I had, througho [?] Unclear or illegible ut this trying ordeal. If I may not so believe, I should be inclined to question whether there is a God who moves in human affairs, and to doubt the divinity of your mission. All this I believe, since I saw and felt, what I did see and feel on that occasion. The students whom I have seen have come home with a deeper sense of their mission and with hearts overflowing with love. With a broader and better conception of the work that you have accomplished. Can it be that this is the work of error? Can it be that it is all a mistake? Must not the world be reached somewhat through its own methods?

I write earnestly. If I write mistakenly you will know it. If I write from a wrong standpoint, or am overstepping proper bounds, I know I shall be rebuked as I deserve, but that I write honestly out of the depths of my heart and a purpose which cannot exist apart from our great causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science., I am sure.

I believe a mighty work was done, and an impression made which shall be age-abiding. Of course the devil was stirred to his depths and is endeavoring to strirke back, and has touched me and through the only source that he could have touched me. If I understand myself the stab could have come only through you. If it is to remain there, so be it. God will in time heal it.

I beg your pardon for this long letter. I have been impelled to write it. My only purpose is to aid you in this great work. My des-ire is to go with you through GesthemenaeCorrected:Gethsemane to Calvary. Hence I have written fearlessly out from my best understanding. God is our judge and in his hands I place myself.