I have been very negligent in replying to your very kind letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant., for with my domestic duties etc the time flies so swiftly I can hardly keep pace with it. As regard the DrEditorial Note: Dr. Dunlap, I wrote him after receiving your letter, and said to him that I was sorry, to learn of his spiritualistic views as I had placed so much confidence in him, and of course after reading your works he still adhered to them he was not a true Metaphysician, and I thought you would decline accepting him and up to this time I have heard nothing, as he has not written and I have not been down and shall not go until the first of Sept. I regret so good a man can be so blinded and hold so tenaciously to such beliefsAs Written:beleifs, when Truth is presented so forcibly in your Science & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I feel just as you do about spiritualists and will not affiliate with them, as my experience with the few I have met is they are treacherous and vile, and I am in dread of them, I seem to have foreboding of evil, over me whenever I am in their presence, and as I am a person of very positive likes and dislikes, I have made an effort since I became a scientistEditorial Note: Christian Scientist to overcome it as much as possible, but I have the first exception to make yet in a spiritualist. How I wish it was possible for me to go this fall, but I know it is not possible, as Politics have entered so largely into every branch of business, I think it more than probable, if a democratic school board is elected next year we shall be obliged to move from here, as they seem to thin out the Republicans as much as possible and if that is the case, it will be very necessary for me to be here, if we move I shall store the effects I think and then go East. and not keep house until I return, I feel very anxious to know more about healing. I took the course of Mrs Rice, but she taught us just a week or two before she went back and, I found when I came to demonstrate so much that I needed advice about, that I feel dissatisfied with the little knowledge I have, I have been fairly successful with others but I can’t As Written: cant do a thing for myself. and that is somethingAs Written:some thing I do not understand I healed a Young girl of Suppressed Menstruation of over three Years standing the physicians all had given her up it was two months before they made their appearance, but to all appearance she had no blood in her body when I commenced treatment. Of course I could not be gone from home long enough to take a full course would like to make a study of Obstetrics. I have had very good success in pulmonary complaints. not good in Paralysis, this and Insanity I would like to be successful.

How long would it be necessary for me to remain to make a successful healer, I would rather make Science & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy a success than fall heir to the wealth of the Indus. There is nothing lies so near my heart, and I feel the need of counsel and someoneAs Written:some one who would be congenial, to whom I could talk freely & with, but I am alone as far as my idea of Metaphysics is concerned, everyoneAs Written:every one of the others go to the Meetings of Spiritualists, whenever they come here, and are ready to grasp at whichever one is most profitable in a financial way, their claim to metaphysics seem to be in the letter only. They have met with no success, as they As Written: the have it so mixed up it yields no peaceable fruitsHeb 12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. to them or others, How highly favored are they As Written: the whose privilege As Written: priveledge it is to listen to your teaching I feel like Martha of oldLuke 10:38 ¶Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. Luke 10:39 And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word. Luke 10:40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. Luke 10:41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: Luke 10:42 But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. . I should have no desire for anything else, had I such a privilegeAs Written:priveledge, I hope next year to be able to go. You may rest assured I shall grasp the very first opportunity to go My health has not been so that I felt like being far away from home, until now. I am improving and hope to be able to put off all Mortal beliefs As Written: beleifs and rise above the groveling thief of time and sense resplendent in the beautiful garments of Spirituality. and then when I am able to put all beliefs As Written: beleifs under my feet I shall be able to do all things wellMark 7:37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak. , firmly rooted and grounded in Truth.

I am afraid I take up too much of your time, by writing and then I think maybeAs Written:may be it does not interest you, for your plane of thought is so much higher than Mind, I hardly could conceive of anything to write that would be interesting to you, but I love to get a line from you, I feel I can make a more desperate effort to overcome unbeliefs, and it seems to set me on a firmer footing, and I feel more encouraged to know all that is possible for meMark 9:17 And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; Mark 9:18 And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not. Mark 9:19 He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me. Mark 9:20 And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming. Mark 9:21 And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child. Mark 9:22 And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us. Mark 9:23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. . I feel your blissful influence very often. I know it by the exalted state of my feelings I seem suspended in mid air, But I must close it is 9 P.M. Sabbath. I almost forgot to ask you what the charges will be if I go to you and get instruction in the branches I spoke of. I could not stay long enough to take the full course, at present I hope sometime to be in a condition to go and remain as long as I please.