Knowing how valuable your time must be of necessityAs Written: nescesity , still feeling a strange drawing that I must write to you, the latter has been allowed to prevail and I will give you a few points of my life. I am now 40 yearsAs Written:yrs of age my parentsEditorial Note: William E. Cole and Susan H. Cole were comfortably well off but my having a good voice was admitted where I should not have been otherwiseAs Written: other wise , 16 yearsAs Written:yrs ago I was married to a young man of means we lived very happily but just before the dreadful Boston fireEditorial Note: This is a reference to the “Great Boston Fire of 1872,” which was the largest fire in the history of Boston. we lost our all of this world’s As Written: worlds goods also my husband’s As Written: husbands health, my Aunt helped us to this home paying enough money so that the rest could be mortgaged back, my father and husband arguing to try and pay for it so as to make us a home. Mother faded and died & eleven months after father married again a woman whom none of his friends feel as if they could respect and receive in love, he lives two miles away but his hands are full with the new family, on our part we have had at first ill health and miscalculation not knowing my thing of farming all has been learned by bitter experience also two successive yearsAs Written:yrs, loss of crops by pest and drought. of all the hopes and bitter disappointments I need not tell you, human nature is much alike. I run a knitting machine most three yearsAs Written:yrs until As Written: untill my back was so weak I could do it no longer, for the last year & ½ have made boys clothing for Isaac Fenno & Co Boston and am very thankful for it if it is not much, I can keep my children comfortable my children are three in number Two boys 14 & 9 yearsAs Written:yrs a girl 3 last April

I should have said before that the same Aunt has always stayed As Written: staid with us and does the housework As Written: house work that I may do something else to earn money, lately my troubles have been lighter somewhat As Written: some what by Christian Science and my husband greatly helped, from the first this thought has been ever present Can this thing be for me? one of your booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. was in my hands a few minutes while I read a few pages of the introductory by which I found there were imitators As Written: imatators of this scienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, have not seen the booksEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. since, but I heard Mrs Minerva Pierce lecture Wed, evening at WorcesterEditorial Note: Worcester, Massachusetts. I am greatly impressed by what I have seen and heard and I want this blessing and I feel that it will come to me in a measure, but I have not one cent of money at present neither do I know where any could come from, but if this is the Lord’s As Written: Lords work it is just as easy for himEditorial Note: God, to make the way straightIsa 40:3 ¶The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Matt 3:3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Mark 1:3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Luke 3:4 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. for me as if there was no cost and if I have it at all I want it from you pure and undefiledJames 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. . What do you think of it or me? Do you know of any way in which the result may be accomplished which I so much desire? I know I am asking for a large blessing – but the Good bookEditorial Note: Bible tells us to “Ask and ye shall receive”Matt 7:7 ¶Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: Matt 7:8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Mark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. Luke 11:9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. John 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. John 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. John 16:23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. I John 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. I think I have never taken God at his word but filled with doubt and fear even when asking.

Hearing Miss Pierce has given me more courage in the Lord.

Hoping to hear from you soon, and asking your pardon if I am wrong. all I can say or do is “Lord here As Written: hear am I”