Your most welcome letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. was received, read, enjoyed and forwarded to Wife to comfort & help her. On the last hearing she was not quite free from the Malicious attacks of Mes– From what she writes, some mediums are still at her with a determination to break her down, but we know they labor in vain and spend their imagined strength for naughtAs Written:nought. Mortal Mind is exceedingly busy here, 'The enemy Comes in like a flood, but the Spirit of the Lord lifts up a standard against him.Isa 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him. " The Newspaper criticisms on Mrs Gesterfeld's Lecture were very severe. I heard the LectureAs Written:Lec- Some of them were just & others uncalled for. The Lecture was good for ScientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists with few exceptions to be taken to it. She is an able woman and devoted to ChristianAs Written:C Science, but needs to know the way of God more perfectly, and if you will not think me rude, Permit the suggestion, That if you should see your way clear, Invite her to your Normal Class; I feel sure she would not only appreciate the kindness, but show her practical appreciation by paying the Tuition Fee as soon as she is able, and be a much more valuable help to our causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. The severe criticism of her Lecture has done her much good, and furnished me with an opportunity for another article which will be published in our best Chicago Paper the 'Inter Ocean'– tomorrow, and thereby reach tens of thousands. I send you a Copy by Miss Brown and hope you will like it. If any point needs correction please do it as I shall get it published in Pamphlet form. The first Edition of 5000 of my little pamphlet "What is ChristianAs Written:C Science? is nearly all gone, and I am making arrangements for ten thousand more with the corrections you suggested. I would much like to help you in the church at B–Editorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts but at present our Blessed MasterEditorial Note: Jesus Christ has much work for me to do here. Miss Brown will tell you how the work is growing and the great interest which is being awakened all through this mighty west. The next thing we must do here will be to provide trained ChristianAs Written:C Scientists as Preachers of this whole gospel. Bro Norvill will tell you of fields out here white unto the harvestJohn 4:35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. . You will be delighted to know that Miss B– is much more agreeable to work with now. Of Course you will not let her know that I have reported anything to you, but if you can find out anything from her, by which I can make things more pleasant for her, (for I doubt not I have my faults) please let me know and where it involves no compromise of principle I shall be happy to comply. Whatever has happened to Bro gill? Sister Crosse' letter quite startled me, but it did not shake my faith in ChristianAs Written:C– Science, but rather strengthened it, for if ChristianAs Written:C Science were not of God, Mortal Mind would not try to break it down with such persistency. I send another Manuscript by Miss B– which please look over and tell me whether it is fit for publication in Journal or as a little tract. The rest I leave to the Bearer.