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| Accession: | 146.23.014 |
| Editorial Title: | James Ackland to Asa Gilbert Eddy, December 30, 1880 |
| Author: | James Ackland |
| Recipient: | Asa Gilbert Eddy |
| Date: | December 30, 1880 |
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by James Ackland on lined paper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Editorial Note: Ackland says that he has received and appreciated Asa Gilbert Eddy's letter of November
27, 1880 (L16169Click link to view L16169 document in new window). He has delayed writing because he has been very busy and has been working late.
Eddy had asked about Ackland's practice of Christian Science, and Ackland details
some of his challenges in finding patients. Ackland says that when he arrived there
on "October the last," he felt that if he could get right into the Christian Science
practice, he would drop his profession of printing. However, all of his efforts to
follow up with individuals who'd expressed interest in Christian Science treatment
hadn't led to Christian Science practice work. Ackland details some of these struggles,
such as a patient who was well before Ackland arrived, another patient who felt that
health food was the source of his recovery instead of Ackland's treatments, and a
man who decided not to be treated after he read Eddy's lecture on the Atonement, which
he found very upsetting. Ackland writes that he was not discouraged, but the best
season for printing was at hand, so he "pitched in" on that. He sent some pamphlets
to a patient of his in Canada, and he expects to hear from that patient soon. Ackland
acknowledges that what he has reported will not satisfy Asa Gilbert Eddy, but he can't
help that at present. He comments briefly on some cards he printed for the Eddys (L016168Digital document L016168 not available). Ackland asks Asa Gilbert Eddy to give his regards to Mary Baker Eddy. He is returning a large copy of Science and Health he's been using and asks for a new copy of the same edition. Ackland asks that Eddy
excuse him for not writing a longer letter on this "zero night," and sends greetings
from himself and from "Father Time."
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