YoursEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. with request is received. I hasten to comply. Mrs Day started this morning for FreeportEditorial Note: Freeport, Illinois — goaded to leave by incessant appeals from patients and others desiring her Service.

Saturday last I called on Roger Sherman and Miss Bickford — Sunday on Mr Sherman Sr. and laid before them all your proposition to organize a Christian Science church in ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois. I intimated that you had in some sort Commissioned me to preach the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science if a church could be organized, Was this a fair statement of the case?

All seemed to be in favor of the proposition, and I think all that is necessary as a preliminary step to success would be your written authority for me to act in the matter as your representative.

The necessity of such a church was made obvious in the Course of Conversation with Miss Bickford. Numbers of so called Corrected: so-called ScientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists in the City are evidently tending to Mesmerism, and so much Confusion of judgment prevails in the popular mind that few are able to determine what practitioners are in "science."

I think it would be very desirable in case our church gets on its feet, to have it in all respects a Counterpart to yours in BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts. This wcould be readily effected if Bro Adams would send me the order of Service, name of Hymnal and all other details, I may have presumed too much in taking the iniatiative in this matter of the Church, If so, please "sit on me" [?] Unclear or illegible  at once, If not, steal time enough to give me the written authority.

I desire to preach and preach in harmony with scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, but I don't want to run before I am sent, and as a comparative stranger to many of the Chicago ScientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists, it does seem a little like "Gall" (a chicago word of slang featuersCorrected:features) to offer to preach to the old practitioners.

We have now most delightful spring weather. Buds are ready to burst, and the birds are just so full of rollicking from that they cannot contain themselves, Mrs Day was saying but yesterday that she would give [?] Unclear or illegible almost anything if you could only be here – rest and enjoy the Country for a time Perhaps you will come sometime and like St PaulEditorial Note: Paul the Apostle "visit the Churches."