Since my visit to Pleasant View on Godod Friday of this year, when you so kindly, nay tenderly, received me, I have been in various places where you have lived, and in communication with different persons you have known, in the theAs Written:the years gone by. I have gone on various journeys of inquiry, asking men and women this question and that, to draw from them the testimony they ought and must give, always with a view of bringing out the ideal life of which I am so earnest a student.

It is a remarkable experience which I am passing through, following in your footsteps, observing the impressions which your acts made upon others and their acts upon your life. I am aware that your real experiences lie too deep for scrutiny, and when I say I am following your footsteps, I know that the statement only applies to certain outward facts and exterhnal conditions. Yet in visiting houses in which you have lived, walking in streets where yuou have trod, conversing with people who once lived on terms of intimacy with you, I have reconstructed in my mind in so far as possible states of mind which may have been yours in order to portray as truly as possible the chief events of your life.

I am writing to tell you dear Mrs. Eddy, how profoundly I have been moved by these events, how deeply cast down, how greatly lifted up. I cannot possibly relate all I have learned in my articlesEditorial Note: Sibyl Wilbur published a series of twelve articles about Mary Baker Eddy's life in Human Life magazine between January and December 1907. She expanded these into a biography of Eddy published in 1908 and titled The Life of Mary Baker Eddy., for one must touch gently others' lives, even in exonerating a great life. But to you, Mrs. Eddy, I want to say I stand amazed in contemplation of the extrordinary Corrected: extraordinary fight you have fought. In following up every year of your life, reconstructing their history and denying falsehoods, I have seen you in battle after battle, in warfare after warfare, against the trivial, the vain, the idle, the shallow, the malicious, the vicious, the sensual, the liar, the worldling, the diseased, the perjurer, the weak, the vacilating Corrected: vacillating ,--it is like witnessing these battles over again to meet these men and women who once knew you and force them to tell the truth.

I don't know how it is done, I don't know what force or power accomplishes it, but every one of your so-called enemies receives me, answers my questions, and in some way confuses himself in his own falsehoods, or, with amazing frankness, twells the truth. Of these witnesses there are those who have sworn to other statemensCorrected:statements, and when I have addressed them on certain matters they have allowed the truth to escape, as it were, inadvertently. I have heard every story they can tell, every conceivable invention of worldliness and malice,--and the inventions are incredibly cunning,--but I have taken your writings and the unimpeachable records of events, and read therein your true life story. Comparing this vision of ryourself with the worldly distorted pictures given out from time to time the false lines fade away, leaving a likeness of extrordinary Corrected: extraordinary purity.

"Atonement and Eucharist"Editorial Note: "Atonement and Eucharist" is the second chapter of the current edition of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. and "Footsteps of Truth"Editorial Note: "Footsteps of Truth" is the eighth chapter of the current edition of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. and "Pond and Purpose"Editorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy's article discussing the metaphysical significance of baptism, Pond and Purpose, was published in the August 1892 issue of The Christian Science Journal. It was reprinted in Eddy's book Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896 on pages 203-207. were not written by the woman painted in dyes of deception with a brain teeming with worldly design. It is my intent and desire to make the world outside your church realize this. I have experienced a great uplift from reading "Science and Health"Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy I have felt lightness of heart, a delicious harmony, a consciousness of love, joy and peace, in a tenderly beautiful way and I think andy spiritually minded person must so feel the touvch of yoyr Corrected: your thought.

It is perhaps not necessary for me to write this to you, since I have met you and what I then had to say was imparted in a silence which you impressed upon me with the assurance of your complete understanding. But I am impelled to write, dear Mrs. Eddy, for ZI want to say to you with love and admiration that I have seen your victories pile up one after another, and though I see you marching through calamity, sustaining oppression, resisting merciless onslaught and overthrowing falsehoods, I know that you will be finally and completely victorious. And the great purpose of your life, to exemplify the Science of Christ, will be accomplished.