I shall never be able to express to you all that your letter of Feb. 13thEditorial Note: See L14238. mean to me and how much I am indebted to you for the healing and redemptive Truth that has been revealed to this age in Christian Science.

I am not a teacher of Christian Science; I have a fair mastery of the English language, Composition, and punctuation; and I am unmarried and still a very young man.

I read Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy about four and half years ago; I had a Course in Christian Science under Miss Alice Jennings while she was still a student of Mrs. A. E. Stetson; and after Miss Jennings was given a Certificate to teach Christian Science, that is after she had the Course in Christian Science in the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, I went through her Class again. I have given a good part of my time to the study and demonstration of Christian Science for the past Eighteen months, and I resigned my College Chair last mMay in order to enter regularly into the Christian Science work. My healing work has been very joyous and quite successful; and, for the past few months, I have been the Second Reader of the Christian Science Church at Macon.

My Early Educational advantages were very rural and very limited; but my college and University training has been very good. I had a four year's College Course, and I have had about fo [?] Unclear or illegible ur years of University study and about four years of College and University teaching.

My University training was along the lines of history and philosophy; and, until recently, I gave too little attention to the English language, Composition, punctuation, etc. Last summer I had a six week's Course in Composition at Harvard; and I wrote my paper on Christian Science, which has recently been published in the Christian Science Journal, as my long Composition for that Course. My Harvard Professor was kind enough to help me [?] Unclear or illegible  a great deal, and he thinks that I can now write above the standard of most of the magazine writers.

I have done some lecturing before Chataqua Assemblies, and I have given a number of talks and read a number of papers before literary and scientific societies. However, I still have a number of defects in my style that I am eliminating as fast as possible. [?] Unclear or illegible I speak somewhat more fluently than I write, as I have had more practice as a speaker than as a writer. I am conspicuosly Corrected: conspicuously free and unhampered in almost every way. Christian Science has brought me health, harmony and joy. My tastes are all very simple; and, while I have some younger brothers and a sister to educate, they do not represent any great expense to me. Mother, who has been healed through the study of Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, is very comfortably provided for.

I desire most of all the most favorable opportunities for growth and for helpfulness,— "to drink with [you]Editorial Note: The brackets here are written in the original document. the living waters of the spirit of [your]Editorial Note: The brackets here are written in the original document. life-purpose,— to impress humanity with the genuine recognition of practical, operative Christian Science".