Words would fail to portray my regret, when I returned from FreeportEditorial Note: Freeport, Illinois, and ElginEditorial Note: Elgin, Illinois, and received your invitation to be with you on Wednesday. However much I have lost by it. I know you will agree with me that our lectures in Freeport Monday and Tues night, and Elgin Wednesday, will be of profit to the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science..

I send you paper containing report of our visit to Freeport, and Miss Long, who is now with you can inform you of the character As Written: charachter of names mentioned.

Your experience will tell you how very poorly a newspaperAs Written:news paper can report a lecture on Metaphysics. The burden of one talk was to show the difference between, "mind-cure", "faith-cure", and Christian Science.

If there is one thing more needed than another it is to place pure Metaphysics before the people, in contradistinction to those false methods.

Sometimes I falter, before this awful sin that seems to have fastened its grip upon the world, leading them into such a gulf of suffering it is appalling to the bravest.

I returned home by way of ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois, and there learned that this Swarts, and Mrs Plunkett are working tooth & nail to set up a college of metaphysics in Chicago. He (Swarts) is spreading the most wicked lies about, and claims now that you and Mrs Hopkins had disagreed, and Miss Hopkins was coming to Chicago. It is needless to repeat the fearful As Written: fearfull lies Mrs Plunkett has uttered. I pity them all. I have watched this Swarts for the past eighteen months, and would have been foolishly blind not to discover what he was working for; but, what he sows he must reapGal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. , and I know he will have to.

If only our ScientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists are true to the causeEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science., we shall triumph for God and right. To return to myself, and future movements; Is it probable that you will have another Normal class. about the 16th or 17th of November, in that week I could arrange to leave my work here. If you are not to have a class then, would you advise me to come that week and pass a few days in the College with you in a preparation for our specific work.

Mrs Eddy, I am thus particular and economical about my absence from home, for the reason that I have laid out just such an amountAs Written:amn't of work to accomplish, and the time to do it. SomeoneAs Written:Some one must watch this locality, and it seems to have fallen upon me, hence my anxiety to be absent no longer than possible.

Let me ask an immediate answer to the question, are not Arens & Kennedy, the prime movers in this latest attack, using Newman, Silsbee, Stewart Swarts, Charles etc as their tools; and do I act right. in taking them up, naming them as malicious.

I omitted to mention that Mrs Choate was named in connection with Mrs Hopkins coming west, or forming a coalition. I have given no credit to such stories; which I presume you have heard of ere this.

Please give me an early reply as to next normal class, of my coming, and of the malicious, then I can begin my actions in accordance.