⇉ Handshift:Nancy A. EvansJuly 7 1885
Iron Mountain MichiganAs Written:Mich
Although never having seen As Written: seene you yet feel As Written: feeal as though was well acquainted with you. I have been As Written: ben a great As Written: grate sufferer As Written: sufer for 30 years with FemaleAs Written:Fimale WeaknessAs Written:Weaknes, had tried everythingAs Written:every thing all sorts of supportersAs Written:surporters, and had the body healed by faith but it would come onto me again, until As Written: untill I had just been As Written: ben waiting As Written: wating to die: have been As Written: ben a Christian for many years and did enjoy the spirit of God all the time; and did know that God was able to make me strong so that I could endorse hardness as a good soldier As Written: sodier of the Cross. When I just happened As Written: haptend to go to OcontoEditorial Note: Oconto, Wisconsin last September and found your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I bought As Written: bot them and endorsed them without knowing what was in them. took them home and read As Written: red and reread As Written: re red them with the Bible until As Written: untill I healed myself and helped others. I labored As Written: labourd with and reasoned As Written: reseld with God until As Written: untill I received As Written: recieved the true experience As Written: exspirence of Christian Science, and then awayAs Written:a way went all my old beliefs and old experience As Written: exspirence and I was filled As Written: filed with Life Truth and Love and so happy that not a cloud doeth arise to hide my Savior As Written: Savour from my Eyes. Oh it tis most grand and Glorious I would like to go to BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts next September when the ladies go from Oconto if I had the means but have no means of my ownAs Written:one. I live with my son who is a RailroadAs Written:R Road Agent although he is very kind and dutiful son, yet he does not see the need As Written: kneed of my going to Boston to learn Christian Science for he does not understand it: and he is not willing As Written: wiling to give me the Money to learn the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science; am fifty five years old but seems As Written: seame to be now just about sixteen, I can run and not weary, and Walk and not faintIsa 40:28 ¶Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. Isa 40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Isa 40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: Isa 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. and how Grand and beautiful as all of Gods ways when we just get a little understanding of him instead As Written: insted of a belief it is such As Written: sutch a grand and beautiful way all fear gone; nothing but perfect love remains now Mrs Eddy if you can write me just what I had better do; as in other words would you be willing to take me for one Hundred dollarsEditorial Note: $100.00 in 1885 is the equivalent of $2,649.22 in 2020. if I could raise that amount have been a Widow for many years, and suffered As Written: sufered much As Written: mutch in belief all my life: but it seems As Written: seams as though I was just beginning As Written: begining to live now; and am so anxious to learn more about it that have taken the liberty to write these few lines to you, if it would not be a waste of your most valuable time would you please to answer these few lines and believe me,