Your long kind letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. which I regretted very much indeed to notice dated Wilderness came to hand in due season. freighted with love and the very highest principles of the great ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science which next to Jesus the Christ you were the founder of. More than language can express do I thank you for the two thorough bedrock lessons which they contain and my friend I assure you I have studdied Corrected: studied them carefully very many times untill Corrected: until I think I can honestly say that I am in full possession of most of the grand truths they contain, but it has taken close affliction and an earnest desire to know the truth. You may rest assured my great teacher that no thought from me will ever reach you again coming from the side of error, for I see clearly now what before was beclouded and dim: I have been subjected to a terrible ordeal of mental suffering since my return and their Corrected: there have been hours when the darkness was so intense that I can only express it in the language of Phoebe CaryEditorial Note: Phoebe Cary (1824-1871), a native of Ohio, was an American poet. Her older sister, Alice Cary (1820-1871), was also a poet. Phoebe Cary was the author of a the words of a hymn that was often sung at funerals: “One Sweetly Solemn Thought.” where she says, Still I murmer Corrected: murmur as God will and in the hottest fire hold still. My friend Hime has always wanted me to cl call on him whenever I needed assistance in monetary affairs but to do so now would be to resume the old relations again and that must never be – I am like a disabled ship near port but that port contains a deadly enemy in the shape of old habits which are worse two thousand times than going to the bottom. Now my dear kind friend I am glad to feel that you are slowly overcoming the discords and getting on your feet again I know you are better and are to yet mount again and with welpoised Corrected: well poised lance again side forward again to meet the cohorts of error. Now let me tell you something which will be pleasant to think of in some of the little foolish dark hours which at times you are so foolish as to entertain: [*]Editorial Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript. Think of a man whome Corrected: whom you know who one year ago this month was going at a p rapid rate to eternal smash, who could swear in the most approved modern way whose passions were like the mighty under tow of the Sea drawing him under every hour, who was frequently getting out of bed from a half to an hour earlier than was necessary because of the hunger for tobacco, think of this man who has always led an active life never knowing what it was to be out of business one hour, being hung up between the heavens and earth in idleness ever since the 1st of April expecting every day would be the last, which he would be called upon to wait and still have it drag on from days into weeks from weeks into months, think of the man who has in the past picked up a man on the street, in winter taken him into a clothing store and given him an outfit from stockings all the way up through to a hat including everything of comfortable apparel, think of this man walking miles in the hot sun on the RRExpanded:Railroad when in six months he had formerly paid forty dollars carfare, think of this man counting it not too much to suffer all this shame and humiliation when by saying the word he might be put on his feet. Is it not worth something [?] Unclear or illegible  to think you have been a large stock holder in one whose birth into metaphysics has been subjected to such a baptism of fire? Yes I hear you say and you know Levi has not said this to boast no he had much rather kept it locked in his own soul, [*]Editorial Note: A metamark that looks like an X appears at this point in the manuscript. but he has said it to uplift and strengthen his teacher whom he is under solemn obligations to sustain in every possible way. So now dear teacher when it looks a little dark think of the fire one man has gone through and is still under with no thought of yielding and that this man heard while in the downward road your voice listened turned back and will continue to fight on this line untill Corrected: until victory crowns his efforts. Oh if I could only see you to day Corrected: today how happy I could make you by relating a little incident which has occurred since my return which illistrates Corrected: illustrates the strength of the [*]Gap: words. by which your memory ever holds me in some hours of temptation which will come to me for at least awhile longer. Well some day you shall hear it from my own lips. Did you not enjoy the poem Enter the PathEditorial Note: This is likely a reference to an excerpt of the narrative poem, “The Light of Asia,” by Edwin Arnold. An excerpt that begins “Enter the Path…” was published in October 1884 issue of The Christian Science Journal, a few months after this letter.? I know you did