Mr. and Mrs. Bates of Syracuse wish me to ask if they can enter the Sept. class.

They have just been through a class with Miss Cross but are now very anxious to study with you. They go to Texas before long and wish to learn all they can of C. S.Expanded:Christian Science before going.

They would like to be in the class with me.

Mrs Bates was healed by reading Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. She is the daughter of a New Haven, Conn.Expanded:Connecticut M. D., and had been under the law of disease for eighteen years, until last Nov. she learned of C. S.Expanded:Christian Science through some BinghamtonEditorial Note: Binghamton, New York friends. She was then expecting to go into a hospitable Corrected: hospital in New York City. The first of Jan. she went to Binghamton to see us perfectly well. Since then she has distributed books & Journals from the Gulf of Mexico to Col.Expanded:Colorado and back. Mr. Bates' Corrected: Bates's business is Steaming heating. He had a belief of failing health from over workCorrected:overwork in his business and thought he must have a change. So he has invested in land with another gentleman in Texas. They own a tract of land 12 miles square- & have never sold any land to a person who would not sign papers to the effect that they would not sell or give away liquor or dispose of the land for that purpose- They are going to build a church there. It would have been a Baptist, now it will be C. S.Expanded:Christian Science I think they will make excelent Corrected: excellent pioneers in C. S.Expanded:Christian Science-

About two years ago they began with a mission school in one of the worst wards of the city. Now they have an established church of 80 or 90 members and a sSunday School of 150 or more members. The pastor, a young man, is becoming very much interesterCorrected:interested, and I hope will study C. S.Expanded:Christian Science before long with you – The Rev. De wolf who wrote youEditorial Note: See 662B.71.016. from BristolEditorial Note: Bristol, Connecticut I met here and had several talks with upon C. S.Expanded:Christian Science His wife is a c [?] Unclear or illegible ousin of Mrs. Bates. Mrs. De wolf became very much interested and healed her selfCorrected:herself of a belief that she has had from birth, but her husband was more inclined to doubt.––

But I will not take longer of your time. Miss Cross goes back to Binghamton to-dayCorrected:today & begins a class there to-morrowCorrected:tomorrow.

We have had excelent Corrected: excellent success here for so short a time, owing to the confidence people have in what Mr. & Mrs. Bates say.