Accession: 969.95.021
Editorial Title: Silas J. Sawyer to Calvin A. Frye, March 17, 1887
Author: Silas J. Sawyer 
Recipient: Calvin A. Frye 
Date: March 17, 1887
Manuscript Description: Handwritten by Silas J. Sawyer on lined stationery of the Wisconsin Metaphysical Institute, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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MILWAUKEE, WIS. March 17/87
C. A. Frye C.S.D
My Dear Brother;

Your very prompt acknowledgementEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. of ours of the 10thEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. is at hand todayAs Written:to day, also the balc [?] Unclear or illegible  of 'Science & Health"Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy by freight just received. Upon opening the box we find 42 copies 'S & H'Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. You sent 6 copies by express, which were received, making but 48 copies in all. The bill calls for 50 copies. Of course, making two different packages it is easy to see wherein a mistake could occur.

We are making such a rapid inroad upon this order, that I enclose another order for 50 copies. "S & H," to sent by freight. I write this just previous to leaving to deliver a lecture in a neighboring city, shall be absent three days. My whole talk now is the book "S & H," and it is doing a great work. To praise myself a little, and yet not personal self; let me do it in the words of one of our hearers who took a copy of "S & H," he says "Doctor I did not expect so much good sense when I came here tonightAs Written:to night, you struck right out from the shoulder too."

There is no obstacle to the spread of ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, as the timidity of Christian Scientists. in their refraining from boldly declaring for "S & H," and for it alone, as the only work on the science of healing through Mind.

Why to this city where I am going, Mrs Sawyer incidentally learned that one had been there claiming to be a Christian ScientistAs Written:C- S-: but the people knew nothing of "S & H". They know of Warren Felt Evans works, but it did not satisfy. In other places I hear of ScientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists saying to patients "you cannot understand "S & H" until you take a course of instructions." Of course you know of this. That was the great trouble with Mr G- he would not concede that any book could be superior to hisEditorial Note: Philosophical Realism by William I. Gill. hence his entire conception of Christian Science was received.– sifted through "Philosophical Realism." I tell you my brother even with your knowledge of the erroneous methods of many of the students. of Christian ScienceAs Written:C. S. I think you would be appalled before the revelations of ignorance we meet with. So far short do they come of even trying to practice what Mrs Eddy has taught. To me, the rescuer from this maelstrom of misconception of C. S- Mind-healing, is for every student to push "S & H," to the front, before their treatments, and let their treatment be that the patient, as well as all people do understand it, are healed in the reading of it. Pardon this trespass on your time. Enclosed find Draft for one hundred dollarsEditorial Note: $100.00 in 1887 is the equivalent of $3,300.16 in 2024..

Sincerely in Christ.
S J Sawyer

P. S. That reply to Gills newspaper articleEditorial Note: See Rev. Wm. I. Gill’s Newspaper Attack in the March 1887 issue of The Christian Science Journal. is most excellent. I am a little puzzled as to who wrote it, whether Mrs Crosse, Mr Wiggin, or who? The foundation of it is the "who", and that "who" is the truth. so I am satisfied.

S.

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MILWAUKEE, WIS. March 17/87
C. A. Frye C.S.D
My Dear Brother;

Your very prompt acknowledgementEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. of ours of the 10thEditorial Note: This letter is not extant. is at hand to dayCorrected:today, also the balc [?] Unclear or illegible  of 'Science & Health"Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy by freight just received. Upon opening the box we find 42 copies 'S & H'Editorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. You sent 6 copies by express, which were received, making but 48 copies in all. The bill calls for 50 copies. Of course, making two different packages it is easy to see wherein a mistake could occur.

We are making such a rapid inroad upon this order, that I enclose another order for 50 copies. "S & H," to sent by freight. I write this just previous to leaving to deliver a lecture in a neighboring city, shall be absent three days. My whole talk now is the book "S & H," and it is doing a great work. To praise myself a little, and yet not personal self; let me do it in the words of one of our hearers who took a copy of "S & H," he says "Doctor I did not expect so much good sense when I came here to nightCorrected:tonight, you struck right out from the shoulder too."

There is no obstacle to the spread of ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science, as the timidity of Christian Scientists. in their refraining from boldly declaring for "S & H," and for it alone, as the only work on the science of healing through Mind.

Why to this city where I am going, Mrs Sawyer incidentally learned that one had been there claiming to be a C- S-Expanded:Christian Scientist: but the people knew nothing of "S & H". They know of Evans works, but it did not satisfy. In other places I hear of ScientistsEditorial Note: Christian Scientists saying to patients "you cannot understand "S & H" until you take a course of instructions." Of course you know of this. That was the great trouble with Mr G- he would not concede that any book could be superior to hisEditorial Note: Philosophical Realism by William I. Gill. hence his entire conception of Christian Science was received.– sifted through "Philosophical Realism." I tell you my brother even with your knowledge of the erroneous methods of many of the students. of C. S.Expanded:Christian Science I think you would be appalled before the revelations of ignorance we meet with. So far short do they come of even trying to practice what Mrs Eddy has taught. To me, the rescuer from this maelstrom of misconception of C. S- Mind-healing, is for every student to push "S & H," to the front, before their treatments, and let their treatment be that the patient, as well as all people do understand it, are healed in the reading of it. Pardon this trespass on your time. Enclosed find Draft for one hundred dollarsEditorial Note: $100.00 in 1887 is the equivalent of $3,300.16 in 2024..

Sincerely in Christ.
S J Sawyer

P. S. That reply to Gills newspaper articleEditorial Note: See Rev. Wm. I. Gill’s Newspaper Attack in the March 1887 issue of The Christian Science Journal. is most excellent. I am a little puzzled as to who wrote it, whether Mrs Crosse, Mr Wiggin, or who? The foundation of it is the "who", and that "who" is the truth. so I am satisfied.

S.

 
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This letter is not extant. This letter is not extant. Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Christian Science Christian Scientists Philosophical Realism by William I. Gill $100.00 in 1887 is the equivalent of $3,300.16 in 2024. See Rev. Wm. I. Gill’s Newspaper Attack in the March 1887 issue of The Christian Science Journal.