I have been trying to write you ever since dear Mrs Colles left London. She sails to-day Corrected: today and will soon gladen Corrected: gladden your heart with her seeming fearless thought.

When she is here I know that you are hearing from this strange field, hoary with age in idolatry, but as yet having a very faint concept of the true God.

I am sure that the work in the hearts of the students would give you joy. Christian Science is making them all over new.

The present little class in itself shows the advance of thought in the past two years.

The News papersCorrected:Newspapers have not let us alone now for months, but their ignorant malice has worked for, and not against the CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science.. Many have been led to our services by the diatribes against the "brand new sect imported from America, that bids fair to become a West E [?] Unclear or illegible nd craze" etc etc Our little church is packed, and extra chairs brought in, for the Sunday evening testimonial meeting now during the season, and the morning service is commanding a fuller attendance. The room is now nearly filled. Of course when the season ends, and the people all rush out of London there will again, for at least three months, be small attendance.

Although the Truth is reaching the class in service, as yet it is among the servants of those who go out of London and the servants go with them. This is, to an American, such a queer country. The London people – the middle and upper classes seem to spend two thirds of their time in getting out of London ang Corrected: and getting back again.

We have a number of American visitors of the plain, humble and loving sort, and their sweet, earnest, unaffected words and manner have made a deep impression upon both students and strangers.

The little RileysEditorial Note: Frank Lawrence Riley and Florence Emily Riley are doing very bravely. Mrs. Riley was in London for nearly a week. I saw her for a little twice or three times while she was here. YorkshireEditorial Note: Yorkshire is a historic county of England, centered on the county town of York. seems to their sense very slow to take up a new thought, and the brave little workers seem to get absolutely no response. The Dr. has been obliged to get some business to do to pay rent and board. He has done it in a most faithful loving spirit. They have spoken to me about coming up to London, where the work comes to the students almost faster than they are prepared to do it. Every oneCorrected:Everyone who is situated so that he or she can take patients has more than thanAs Written:than they can do. The Riley's would certainly have all they could do very soon, if they bring with them to the work the pure spirit I have seen in them. I told them that they should not think of coming to London without your approval, as they are practically your students. If you thought it wise, I would give the most cordial welcome to the work here. I feel sure that you have reason to rejoice in them.

Now, dear Mother, I want to go over the biennial meeting of the Mother Church. I need it. If you do not write me not to do so, I shall sail for BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts direct, about the 1" of Aug, so as to visit St. LouisEditorial Note: St. Louis, Missouri for three or four weeks and return for the meeting and sail soon after.

Through the kindness of Lady Dunmore, I have been able to get the best heraldist in the College of ArmsEditorial Note: William Alexander Lindsay (1846-1926) was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London, England. See 214B.35.065. to take up the genealogical searchEditorial Note: In 1895, Mary Baker Eddy's student Julia Field-King undertook her own research project to prove that Eddy was a direct descendant of King David of Israel. The background of this endeavor was known as the "Anglo-Israel theory," which promoted the idea that the Anglo-Saxon "race" was in fact descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel. Field-King was particularly influenced by a 26 volume work titled Our Race: Its Origin and Its Destiny by Charles Adiel Lewis Totten. In it, Totten attempted to prove that the genealogy of the British royal line could be traced back to King David. Although Eddy for a time showed some interest in Field-King's efforts, she eventually asked her to stop the research. Not only was the research failing to yield the results Field-King hoped for, but Eddy indicated that these pursuits were contrary to the fundamental teachings of Christian Science regarding the wholly spiritual nature of man.. Ever since I have been here, Miss Schmidt has seemed only to muddle the matter in a most inexplicable way. When asked for dates – as many as the records and authorities which she had consulted show, she has seemed to wander aimlessly around and bring forth no results of value, so I have put her first work on the Baker lineageEditorial Note: This is the line of lineage following Mary Baker Eddy's father, Mark Baker. into the Herald'sEditorial Note: William Alexander Lindsay (1846-1926) was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London, England. See 214B.35.065. hands and the first work of the Ambrose dataEditorial Note: This is the line of lineage following Mary Baker Eddy's mother, Abigail A. Baker.. I had to send him £50Editorial Note: £50.00 in 1898 is the equivalent of £8,357.67, or $11,310.00, in 2025. with the order, and had to promise £50 more if he found that it could be satisfactorily traced through record and tradition. The McNeill lineEditorial Note: This lineage is related to Mary Baker Eddy's paternal grandmother, Mary Ann M. Baker. is the most promising.

The work in the College of ArmsEditorial Note: The College of Arms is the official heraldic authority for England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and much of the Commonwealth, including Australia and New Zealand. is cold, hard, exact and they hate to deal with probabilities or rec [?] Unclear or illegible kon them at all. I told him that I wanted everything taken into account. I had to assure him that the search was not for the purpose of securing an estate, or establishing an heirship.

He, like the rest, dearly loves the atmosphere of a title, and it was the condescension of Lady Dunmore in letting his son take Lady Victoria her daughter - down to dinner, that opened the doors of the College to me. That is the way that the demonstration was seemingly shown. Dear Mother, it is like climbing a sheer precipice to push that work here. This very fact proves to me that we must be on the trail. I have not been idle. Lady Dunmore told me the other day that she and Lord Dunmore and the two, dear little girlsEditorial Note: Lady Victoria A. Murray and Lady Mildred Murray were all going over to the biennial meeting, and expected to sail in the latter part of September . I know that there is a very humble hope and wish that they might have an interview with you. I have told them that they must not expect it. They are all now members of the Mother Church and are as happy as little children over it. The blessed Truth is doing wonders for them.

The proud, stately, haughty Lady Dunmore – daughter and wife of our Earl – is now a soft, loving, gentle humble child at the feet of Divine Love, so grateful to you and to the Father for the revelation of Christian Science. They have come up from a very deep pit of error, and they are seeing the Light. The only son, Lord Fincastle, was in my last class, and really the seed has fallen in hopeful groundMatt 13:1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. Matt 13:2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. Matt 13:3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; Matt 13:4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Matt 13:5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: Matt 13:6 And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. Matt 13:7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: Matt 13:8 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. Matt 13:9 Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. Luke 8:4 ¶And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable: Luke 8:5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. Luke 8:6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. Luke 8:7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. Luke 8:8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Luke 8:9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be? Luke 8:10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand. Luke 8:11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. Luke 8:12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. Luke 8:13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. Luke 8:14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. Luke 8:15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. . He goes back to India to his regiment in a fortnight, as he says with a "new coat of mail." I could tell all this and much more about dozens of these students; I am running on about these because I have had to be so patient, loving and uncompromising with them, and I am rejoicing in the reward of Truth. Mrs Colles can tell you how unpromising to her sesnse the elders of the family were, but no one knows but me, over here, (you know as no one else can know) how much prayer and fastingMatt 17:18 And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour. Matt 17:19 Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? Matt 17:20 And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Matt 17:21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting. , how much reflection of Love it has taken to do what has been done for them. They are going to be staunch, sterling, acting workers in Christian Science.

I know that if it is best for the CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. that I see you if I go over, that I shall do so. God will guide, and I am content. I do need to go to the meeting, it seems to me, but if it is not best, Iwillobey in spirit and letter. Mrs. Colles will be with you when this reaches you. Give her my love. I am so glad that she can do for you what you wish.