Do not dare to trust Dr. A- enough to let him know a word of what I have said to you. You must see Mr. Whitehead before you say a word of any of what I wrote you, in the letter, even to Mr. Frye, or the ShermansEditorial Note: Bradford Sherman, Martha E. Sherman, and Roger Sherman, or Mrs. Noyes. Do not think I would dictate to you, but this is a matter which belongs to us as it were, for the present, but I felt as tho'Expanded:though what belonged to us belonged to you; but you would not expose or reveal a private personal matter of mine to those I did not trust, would you? Then you would not give this trust, part of which belongs to Mr. W- part to Mrs. P- & part to myself, without our consent, would you? Mr. W- only allowed me to tell you what I did, under conditions of the utmost secrescy, & that I should not write anything to you. That is I why I want the letter returned. I wrote because you gave me no chance to tell you anything Unless error is exposed, it will much more abound. You say so yourself. And yet when the error of all errors offers to be exposed, you say, No! cover it up, let them go on. You laugh at that which is worse than any material causation or chemical action seen to the eye, for this is unseen & yet produced through the same chemical action. Have we overcome the flame, water, eating &cExpanded:et cetera. Do we not avoid such contingencies until we better understand how to overcome them.

Then how much more should we avoid this worse than fire, water &cExpanded:et cetera. (It being more subtle as well as dangerous.) by [?] Unclear or illegible  exposing it; & telling the perpetrators, if need be, die, falling upon their own sword. It is mesmerism which makes you thus careless of it when you have the only chance that may ever show itself, to have it exposed & met before your students. When your students are turned away from you when some even some die, & all suffer & have to cover up failures, & treat their patients months & sometimes a year or more. Is that scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science?

Let us not hide our heads, like the silly ostrich, in the sand & wait for the enemy to encompass us without a single effort at resistance, exposure, or avoidance. Where I see the fruits of mal. mes. constantly welling up, & not overcome by scientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists (& you cannot deny it) I think that shows which way the stream runs.

If their malice overcomes your love so that your students leave you after a certain length of time & you have to bring up a new set of students until they leave you, ought it not to open your eyes. What is the longest time that any of the students have been in scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, that are true to you now? Who knows that these will stand any longer than the others.

Cannot anything be true which is not first suggested by Mrs. Eddy? I say these things because I must say what is in my mind; for it is better to speak them than to have them lying back & hiding themselves, doing injury, possibly. I say it not in malice but in sincerity. I shall wait at Brooklyn until I hear from you.

"Be not afraid of the serpent, take it up, and it shall become a rod in thy hand."Ex 4:2 And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod. Ex 4:3 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. Ex 4:4 And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand: I have written to see of Mr. W. can come.