Your valued favorEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. is rec'dExpanded:received with many thanks. Also the specimen copy of your valuable paper. In reply to your kind offer I can but thank you – and say that it is simply impossible for me to go to you at present. We are very poor. Though we live - thank God – in a bright comfortable home, and can surround our children with good influences – still – we have it to pay for – and our three little boys to bring up, and educate. I have work before me for years. But I shall study and read – and fit myself for wo [?] Unclear or illegible rk outside home – when the time shall arrive when my boys are grown and require less of another's time and care. I want to own all your writings – – in time – every word. How to manage it pecuniarily – I can't just see now. but my crooked paths have been made straight for meIsa 40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: Luke 3:5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; – time after time – 'till I have complete faith that they forever will be – so long as I strive for that which is best. I can notCorrected:cannot find the price of your book "Science and health,"Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy— nor see in your paper how many subscribers I must get – in order to secure them. I have showed my copy to some of my friends and they admired it, with me, and I hope to get subscribers. Mrs. Mary E. Haggart, of IndinanapolisEditorial Note: Indianapolis, Indiana, has been lecturing in this vicinity – and while she was here I talked with her – of Christ's teachings and she was deeply interested in your paper and wished for your address, which I gave her.– But as she is "booked" for one hundred lectures this Winter, speaks every night – and is tired all day, it would not be at all surprising if she should neglect to write you- but you could not have an abler advocate – she will have such opportunity too to get names for your paper – as she has, as yet, given but fifteen of her lectures for this Winter. She will be at home during the Holidays – and to address her at Indianapolis, Ind.Expanded:Indiana would be sufficient, as She is so widely known. I shall have other lecturers here – too - during the Winter – also pastors of Universalist Congregations – and will surely do all in my power to make sale for your books and get names for your paper. I have known of you – and been most deeply interested in your glorious exercise of gGod-given gifts for some years– but they have been such very busy years to me– I never have written you before. But I am well acquainted with your husband's brother, who lives at East- TroyEditorial Note: East Troy, Wisconsin– and who is married to the Sister – of one of our near neighbors — Mrs Willard Porter – who has had an invalid daughter for years.– They have often told me of you– And I have wished you could be here. I enclose one dollarEditorial Note: $1.00 in 1883 is the equivalent of $25.62 in 2020. and please send me your pamphlet on "Christian Healing" and for the remaining 75 cts.Editorial Note: $0.75 in 1883 is the equivalent of $19.22 in 2020. I want your paper– "Journal of Christian Science"— Beginning with the 1st copy of Volume 1st if you have the back numbers. And I shall try hard – to never miss having it for any regular visitor – so long as I live - or you publish. I wish you could instruct us how to fulfill all the other Commands of Christ, viz, to "Prophesy"I Cor 12:10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: – "Have faith"Matt 21:22 And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. Matt 21:23 ¶And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority? – "Work miracles"I Cor 12:10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: , "See visions"Joel 2:28 ¶And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: Acts 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: – "discern spirits"I Cor 12:10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: , "Raise the dead"Matt 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. .— "The love of the people is waxed cold"Matt 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. and "The heart of the people is waxed gross."Matt 13:15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. – Spiritual life is the need of the hour. I feel it – and desire that my own gifts whatsoever they may beI Cor 12:4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. ­ – may become sufficiently developed for practical use. And I will not fear to use them – I know of those who have wonderful gifts, but who are so fearful of being called "Mediums" that they smother their "light under a bushel"Matt 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Matt 5:15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Mark 4:21 ¶And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick? Mark 4:22 For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad. Mark 4:23 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear. Mark 4:24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given. Mark 4:25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath. Luke 8:16 ¶No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light. Luke 8:17 For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad. Luke 8:18 Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have. . I shall be more grateful than I can ever tell, if you can send me a word– sometimes– to direct my efforts. Hoping to hear – and wishing you highest success in every way –