I presume your correspondence is very extensive, and you'll be under no obligation to answer this missive. I simply yield to my inclinations in thus addressing you. I am out of my wonted element now. I am not only not preaching today, but am out of all ecclesiastical relations. I am waiting and watching for the call to the new career of duty which awaits me, whatever it may be.

In this situation I am surprised to find myself developing a strange intellectual affinity with you and your work. Yes I am surprised, very greatly. Three months ago, yes three weeks before I sat as your pupil in the class in your house, I should have laughed at the prediction of such a thing. Yet I had with much respect for more than a year been studying your doctrine; and it had gradually been gaining on me. But I did not appreciate it anything like as I do now.

I now see that you are and will be one of the greatest benefactors of our times. You are contributing to the elevation of the average intellectual level, and to put a new glory on Christianity by restoring its pristine power, with a clearer understanding of its essential character. Your work will neither be abortive nor short-lived.

At first when I heard of your Church I disapproved. I thought the ScientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists had better be scattered through the other Churches. But I have been led to see that while that is in most places a necessity, they lose power, and where there is plenty of people as in BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts there should be a separate congregation holding up the true light. I hope you will go on with this work bravely and zealously, and that it will be well established before the termination of your illustrious mortal career by the happy translation which awaits you. Here, no doubt, you will also make provision to work and speak after that transition endlessly.

I received a noteEditorial Note: This note is not extant. from you some weeks ago; but our house was just themn beginning to be chaotic, because I had to move speedily after reaching my conclusion, and as a consequence the note was mislaid and lost (for the present at least,) before I had duly noted its contents, though I think it requested something concerning the Science Journal. I should be happy in any way to serve the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. you lead and represent, so far as my abilities and pportunities Corrected: opportunities pe [?] Unclear or illegible rmit. Meanwhile I am