Accession: 621.63.004
Editorial Title: Ora J. Purington to Mary Baker Eddy, December 28, 1886
Author: Ora J. Purington 
Recipient: Mary Baker Eddy 
Date: December 28, 1886
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Ora J. Purington on lined paper from Manlius, New York.
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I am the Pastor of the Methodist EpiscopalAs Written:M- E. Church of this place. the subject of "Christian Science" introduced into this place during the fall just passed by a lady in SyracuseEditorial Note: Syracuse, New York.

A young lady living in this place who had been an invalid for some years has been healed. studied under Ellen E Cross and is now practicing the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science in Oswego CityEditorial Note: Oswego, New York

I have thought much of the subject since her recovery, she wished me to study and referred me to your kind offer to clergymen of course I would prefer to study with you in the College than under a student-

I have a brotherEditorial Note: George E. Purington who is also a Clergyman a member of the Northern N.Y Methodist Conference who is thinking some of studying if he can he has been unable to do full Pastoral work for some time as the effects of Typhoid As Written: Tyfoid fever

Will you kindly inform me what the entire expense would be, including board, for a term in your College taking the course of "Christian Science Mind healing" And also the "Normal" if we should decide As Written: descide to take it

hoping to hear from you soon I am
Yours with respect
Direct Rev O. J. Purington
621.63.004
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Reproduced from the archive of The Mary Baker Eddy Library

I am the Pastor of the M- E.Expanded:Methodist Episcopal Church of this place. the subject of "Christian Science" introduced into this place during the fall just passed by a lady in SyracuseEditorial Note: Syracuse, New York.

A young lady living in this place who had been an invalid for some years has been healed. studied under Ellen E Cross and is now practicing the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science in Oswego CityEditorial Note: Oswego, New York

I have thought much of the subject since her recovery, she wished me to study and referred me to your kind offer to clergymen of course I would prefer to study with you in the College than under a student-

I have a brotherEditorial Note: George E. Purington who is also a Clergyman a member of the Northern N.Y Methodist Confernence who is thinking some of studying if he can he has been unable to do full Pastoral work for some time as the effects of Tyfoid Corrected: Typhoid fever

Will you kindly inform me what the entire expense would be, including bo [?] Unclear or illegible ard, for a term in your College taking the course of "Christian Science Mind healing" And also the "Normal" if we should descide Corrected: decide to take it

hoping to hear from you soon I am
Yours with respect
Direct Rev O. J. Purington
 
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Syracuse, New York Christian Science Oswego, New York George E. Purington Kirkville is a hamlet of Manlius, New York.