I wish I could put my arms around you, and tell you how much I love you, and how sincere I am in my devotion to you and the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science. And I am not any more sure of my own feelings than I am of those of the feelings of all the other scientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists with whom I am acquainted. I have thought many times, that if there was not all Truth in our Science, and if you, its Leader, were not the remarkable woman you are, how easy it would be, for the skepticism we all have to contend with, to crush it. As for Mrs Stetson I know, she is a devoted scientist, she loves and honors you above all others, and although when she first came, she used less tact, than some others would have done, yet I do not believe she ever said or thought, that she had been sent to watch the rest of us. I remembered when I read your letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant., that somebody a few weeks ago told me they had heard it but I had forgotten all about it. The only thing I heard that troubled me very much was that she said you had sent her here to be at the head of the Science in New York. I confess that hurt me at first,but for after my fifteen months Corrected: months' hard continnuous Corrected: continuous work here, not running around all summer from place to place as most of us do, but "holding the fort" through all the hot weather, I felt that a little hard. But I prayed about it, and I said "This is God's work not mine, and if she is a better instrument than I, it is not for me to question" and I will not think evilI Cor 13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; . I dont Corrected: don't believe now she ever said any thingCorrected:anything she has been accused of saying. The only criticism I would make of her, would be that she is over zealous, for a city filled with such very practical people as New York – she is inclined to hurl the blunt statements of the Science, especially about mesmerism and magnetism at people who care for nothing only to be cured of disease. I find that I must "make haste slowly" with these people – so few of them read or think they are so different from the BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts people. It is nothing but money and dress with the majority. I think Mrs Brown and Mrs Leonard better adapted to this place, but still most likely I am not a competent judge.