I have just received your welcome letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. and haste to reply, and will not waste words.

I am very thoroughly committed to Chrn.Expanded:Christian Science, and to propagate and establish it I shall deem the supreme task of my life on earth.

And I would rather preach Chrn.Expanded:Christian Science in personal connection with you than do anything else in this world

I want to be your pupil not only for one year, but as long as we both shall live in the present form of life.

I am ready to be your aAssistant Pastor under any satisfactory conditions you sha [?] Unclear or illegible ll specify, I would rather be announced in formal connection as your aAssistant as long as it shall seem good to you.

Further, I know that we are at bottom one, and if at any time my utterance should require a little different shading in public, I should be glad to have you give it at once. But above all I must be in frequent communication with you so that not only shall I understand you, but you me.

That coming book is good for all eternity. But here and there I would have used your terms for the sake of your disciples, who cannot penetrate disguises as well as you can. I am about to start an independent society in LawrenceEditorial Note: Lawrence, Massachusetts. I hope the Chrn.Expanded:Christian Scientists will join it as a leaven and so make it a Ch.Expanded:Church of Chrn.Expanded:Christian Science. I may be able to preach to them one part of the Sunday and for you the other part, if that shall meet your judgment.

Let me, then, know what is you will, whether to hold myself under engagement to you, and so preclude all other engagements inconsistent with it.

In the meanwhile, God bless you and keep you, lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give you peace.

I will add, that my wife says, to my astonishment, that she wou [?] Unclear or illegible  have me become your Assistant than be pastor either of an independent Ch.Expanded:Church or of a Unitarian Ch.Expanded:Church It is wonderful how [?] Unclear or illegible  Mrs Gill has come over to you.