⇉ Handshift:Fannie M. SilsbeeSmith’s Basin New YorkAs Written:N.Y.
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Your letterEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. was very gladly receivedAs Written:rec’d. So there has never been anything As Written:any thing mentioned to me in regard to what you spoke of in your letter.
In regard to the percentage. many thanks for your kind offer. it will be quite a help to me. I arrived home all right. am working reading Science & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. & my Bible trying to sell the books & get subscribers for the Journal am living and practicing Truth as well as I know how. The harvest is ripe. but the reapers are few.Matt 9:35 And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. Matt 9:36 ¶But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Matt 9:37 Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Matt 9:38 Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. Luke 10:1 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. Luke 10:2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
It does seem so strange to me that there are not more who live & practice Truth among the many you have taught. but a few faithful workers may accomplish much.