Your last letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. rejoiced us both that you should so fully understand the situation. We felt unless Mrs. Silsbee was converted (and one sincerely hoped should would be.) she would do something long ere the three weeksEditorial Note: Fannie M. Silsbee was a student in Mary Baker Eddy’s class that began on February 25, 1884. The class lasted three weeks. had expired that would show her true inwardness.

Now my dear Teacher something has transpired within the last twenty four hours of which probably you as well as ourselves shall hear more as I will speak of it at once.

A gentleman, a Lawyer from Oconto (the same place the letter was from that I forwarded to you) called with a sick wife. He came to question, to investigate, and to criticize As Written: criticise as Lawyers and doubters sometimes do. He supposed the scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science had been properly represented by Mrs Silsbee.

I told him candidly we were all in the wrong until recently – we had been to Boston As Written: B. and now Mrs Silsbee was there &c..

He seemed greatly astonished ask me twice if I was sure this was not Mrs Silsbee’s As Written: Silsbees second course. I said no: most emphatically. afterward that man put the same question to my husband. then he told us that it was generally understood that she was there taking her second course. I suppose she quieted her conscience by thinking to herself that her first course was with the ShermansEditorial Note: Bradford Sherman and Roger Sherman.

Oh: Mrs Eddy, this failure As Written: falure in her case makes me actually heartsick. We could not condemn her before a stranger but we explained matters telling him what the first instructions consisted of and that even the ShermansEditorial Note: Bradford Sherman, Roger Sherman, and Martha E. Sherman were now in Boston As Written: B. under instructions. We had taken such pains ever since we returned home to tell every everyone As Written: one who came or inquired that we were entirely in error before. the only truth being what we naturally got from the books. the treatment was entirely at variance As Written: varience with the truth. We acted as you directed and as our own consciences dictated on the principal of telling the truth & shaming the evil. Of As Written: of course they would invariably ask if Mrs S – treated as we did. We always said yes: but she went to Boston as soon as she found herself in Error & will soon return prepared to demonstrate the truth.

Mrs Eddy I fear she hasn’t As Written: hasnt grasp intuitionally As Written: intuitionly the spirit of truth. for in her last letter she writes, “Although I am constantly learning I do not feel I was fully in the dark because I have been practicing truth ever since I read Mrs Eddy’s As Written: Eddys books. There was truth in my work & I hope. yes. know that by constant study after learning her class to be able to demonstrate more perfectly than ever I have done yet.” Every particle of hope died out when I read that falsehood. for she never practiced truth and I fear she doesn’t apprehend it now. and she means to come back & pretend to have returned from a second course. I am positively excited over the matter Dr is horrified but takes a more practical view of it. but there is nothing I fear & hate as a lie. and she seems to thrive upon them now we having told the truth of how little we knew before no doubt will have this matter to settle the first thing on her returnAs Written:re turn. for she returns the same Silsbee she went.

I am so disappointed but her letter was written before she was quite through her class & possibly she may have seen herself in Error. I hope so. My Patients are doing finely I have to work hard however to keep off the malicious attacks. My patient with belief of diseased bone is using her hand constantly & writes me she is doing splendidly.

O. God is gracious and kind to do such glorious works through even me.

I have several complicated cases but all are progressing some nicely, others slowly

I shut myself entirely away from society and heat and study and pray to God for a clearer understanding.

I want to do his service heartily and earnestly

I have only three patients who pay me. I did carry seven free patients, yes: have had fourteen but now have five a day.

My Patient with belief of curvature is straight. and can hear again. Oh: you alone can know how happy I feel that God finds me worthy and will at my seeking show his wonderful works.

If trouble (Mrs S.) was not coming back upon us soon I should feel almost too happy. I fear.

I wish she would go to Chicago

Dr is working up quite an interest in the scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science. We don’t strive for many patients at least not many paying ones. but to cure the one & let the demonstration prove our works are good. We feel sure of a large class when you come. Dr is trying to get gentlemen interested We have three in view now if they don’t As Written: dont give up.

We have distributed all the journalsEditorial Note: The Christian Science Journal & could easily dispose of as many more.

Mrs Eddy. We may even find that Mrs S. did not mean to mislead those people. but I can’t As Written: cant solve it yet. just what she did mean. at any rate either we ought not to have told the facts or she ought not to have said what she did. at least our stories don’t As Written: dont agree.