ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois, Mar.17, 1886As Written:'86.
I have had an offer, which I have accepted, to go to Galesburg, IllinoisAs Written:Ill. to teach & heal in Christian Science, and I want your blessing on my new field of work - the interest has just been awakened there, and people have been going from there to PeoriaEditorial Note: Peoria, Illinois for treatment & teaching. of a Mrs. HillEditorial Note: Possibly Emma S. Hill, who has studied with Mrs. Root of CaliforniaAs Written:Cal. & they have Mrs. Root's bookEditorial Note: Healing Power of Mind – I shall sell all the "S & H"Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy I can & also the pamphlets & Journal My grandfather preached in the Congregational ChurchAs Written:Cong- ch- there for many years, and mother taught music & played in church also, a long time - so the name is known there. I have not lived there for ten years- It is a place of about 12,000 inhabitants – Two colleges, Knox college with a ladies seminary - congregational, & Lombard - a universalist, college.
Your revised edition has done me a wonderful amount of good, the short time I have had it. When I read it, it seems just like your voice & your presence teaching me - it impresses me so clearly - you are certainly omnipresent, healing & teaching with the lines you have written. Have had many beautiful experiences & uplifting thoughts since I wrote you last & have studied "S & H"Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy & the Bible - faithfully & with the best results - I feel the greatest love, joy, & peaceGal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Gal 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. -
Past experiences & those connected with them have passed out of my life utterly - whether they will reappear, remains to be seen.