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⇉ Handshift:Ravaud H. Chittenden Lyndon KansasAs Written:Kans
April 12/1886As Written:86
I am reading Science & HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. every day & have been for the last six weeks & I find new beauties in it every day. as I told you beforeEditorial Note: See 656B.69.039. I have taken the rudimentary lessons but I see by the Curriculum - that I could not be recognized or join an association of Christian Scientists, nor teach it, I am anxious to learn more of the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science. I am demonstrating As Written: demonstating every day & with a good degree of Success, & I am earnestly desiring & trying to So live that my life Shall be "hid with Christ in God."Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. I am hungering & thirsting for more righteousness,Matt 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. I know I am getting Stronger every day - I have Some hard cases for a beginner to demonstrate As Written: demonstate on and ask your assistance on one case of belief in Sore eyes as a result of hereditary Scrofula. in a good man of 50 years of age, who has Spent hundreds of dollars & Several years of Suffering by different oculists -(8 of them)- when I commenced with him 3 weeks ago today he could not See the victuals on the table – & at the end of the first week he could See to read large coarse print, but then he took aback set As Written: aback set & does not Seem to be gaining very fast R. J. Basil is his name – Another case of belief As Written: beleif in deep-seated As Written: deep Seated Catarrh of long Standing – it is being dispelled As Written: dispeled by Truth – but yields As Written: yeilds very Slow, his name is A. B. Trumbul Still another case of a very estimable young lady who has but one eye & can scarcely As Written: Scarely See out of it, her right eye was lost in childhood by Scrofula & this eye per manently injured - So that the pupil remains contracted to the Size of a small pinhead As Written: pin head - She also has deep-seated As Written: deep seated Catarrh – She has been unable to read or sew for months until last week, I have been treating her three weeks. & I know you would have been rejoiced to have heard her testimony at the Methodist Love feast yesterday - that a "new light had dawned upon her", She is very happy - I was instrumental in her conversion a year ago this winter – She was then Stopping at my house & I was treating her eye & Catarrh - Please remember these three cases - I have other cases that are rejoicing in this new light.
The good work goes on & will go on. Please answer the following questi ons. When will another class be formed at the College for the first course?. Could I take the Normal Course - immediately after taking the first course?– So that I need not be compelled As Written: compeled to make two trips to Boston - Say all within a Space of four or five weeks? Does a man & wife enter on Same tuition fee as one Scholar?. (that is the way they are teaching in ColoradoAs Written:Colo-)
Could I get any reduction of the fees for the first course - Seeing that I have already learned the rudiments? I want to take the course on obstetrics, Am in my fifty-first As Written: fifty first year – Have been an obstetrician for nearly twenty-five As Written: twenty five years. & if Suffering humanity can be relieved As Written: releived of the pangs of childbirth, I am anxious to know how to do it. I am willing to conform to the rules & regulation of the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science in every way = am trying to get rid of my little drugstore & then I hope to bid goodbye As Written: goodby to Material Matter in the Shape of drugs foreverAs Written: for ever – An early reply will be anxiously looked for by one who desires to be but a "door keeper" in the house of my Master a "doorkeeper" in the house of my MasterPs 84:10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. , & to drink of the Cross-bearing As Written: Cross bearing inspiration of Love – Sincerely As Written: Cincerely