Mr Frye's note expressing your change of mind is recdExpanded:received. I look upon such things as providential. I want no Will of my own so settCorrected:set, as to be disappointed when plans definitely arranged & fixed upon, are upset. My [?] Unclear or illegible  friends have strenuously opposed my going & thoExpanded:though I my selfCorrected:myself felt that could scarcely give up the time from my mother & humanitarian claims, to [?] Unclear or illegible  live at the College (yet would do that gladly if could truly learn to heal); beside being somewhat disappointed that cannot demonstrate Christian Science – have doubted if I [?] Unclear or illegible  ought to go there – still I felt that to withdraw now would be to allow my friends to regard it as an endorsement of their grave objections- God forbid I should ever do that. I am therefore heartily glad that the step comes from you & that I may so state to those who express surprise that I do not carry out my intention of being at the College. Your reason is a proper one- Of course it would have been better had you not completed arrangements with me three days ago, since others in N.Y.Expanded:New York & here, are affected by this change in my plans. My own personal regret is, that any increase of spiritual discernment & power which Communion with you & in these surroundings, might bring to me, is closed. But God has infinite ways to shed light & power upon His Children & some other door of Infinite Love will open wide to me I doubt not- I feel greatly troubled about the payment of your tuition fee. You agreed without reserve to take me free, & when I said I should pay you out of my first earnings, you replied you should never call upon me for it- At the 4th lesson I felt sorest distress that you asked for a note, because I knew I had no right to pay for instruction out of any funds except those I might earn as the fruit of that instruction. Such a note it was no hardship to give because it was my determination to pay in that way whether you had demanded it or not- Your return of that note I took as an expression of confidence in me, after your own changed intention or action, for which I thank you-

My anxiety now, is lest I shall not demonstrate so can earn it- It is my fixed unalterable purpose which neither you nor any oneCorrected:anyone can move one jot n or no tittle, not to charge for using this gift of God- To always give preference to those unable to pay who hold beliefs of sickness or whom the f [?] Unclear or illegible alse claims of sin hold in chains. And I should I heal the wealthy, also to make no charge, but accept as did the apostles, any gifts of gratitude. Tho Corrected: Though were Corrected: we're in starving need of money for personal necessities, I shall not swerve from that adamantine position, because I believe to do other is to sin against the Holy GhostMatt 12:31 ¶Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. Matt 12:32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. Luke 12:10 And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven. - I may be all wrong, but if my conscience so speaks to me, that becomes wrong for me to do, which it might be perfectly right for others to do. I shall however when taking a rich case (until I have paid you) ask that in event of restoration they will reward me, so that I may cease to carry the burden of my tuition fee. But what if I do not become a healer, & therefore can never meet that fee?

I hope to hear you preach tomorrow, relinquishing our S. Sch.Expanded:Sunday School festival for that privilege- and then shall go to N.Y.Expanded:New York for a few days returning in time for our Class reunion.

Am I entitled to the diploma of which you showed us? Assuring you of my warm regard and loyalty, I am