I enclose $1.70Editorial Note: $1.70 in 1885 is the equivalent of $44.81 in 2019. for a subscription to The Christian Science Journal, also for a copy of each of the four pamphlets mentioned in the Journal.

My friend and I have been reading "Science and Health"Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and we desire to study as much as it is possible to do here, with a view to entering upon the course at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College as soon as we shall be able pecuniarily.

We hope that time will come in about one year, and meanwhile we wish to spend all our time not engaged in teaching school upon the study of the 'ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science. I cannot presume that you have the time to write individual letters, but we are so anxious to learn, that I venture to ask you about it, thinking that if you cannot reply to a letter, perhaps my question will be worth answering in the column of Questions and Answers in the Journal; and I will formulate it in this way—

What can prospective students of the college do as preliminary study, and do you regard the study of literature and languages at the same time objectionable?Editorial Note: Osgood Peterson’s question and Mary Baker Eddy’s answer appeared on page 204 of the February 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal. An edited version was printed on page 64 of Eddy’s book, Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896.

I cannot write to you, dear Madam, without telling you what you must have heard from many others that you are "like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land,"Isa 32:2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. and that my faith in your discoveryEditorial Note: Christian Science is firm. One of your students is healing the sick in Denver with marvelous success, and has come into my home with blessing that mortal power can never repay.