Your last letter said you had tried to open Mrs. Otterson's eyes as to Mr. & Mrs. Bates but had failed. Have I not begged of you in times past never to try to control the minds of my students but leave them to God and to my instructions.? Also, never to make Mrs. Otterson's visit at my house in BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts unpleasant.? For you to be constantly directing, else quarreling with my students will never do, it only tends to darken them, break up their my church, and to ruin yourself. You cnannot overthrow God's work, but can desrtroy your own earthly prosperity and hope of heaven by thre such a course. you are pursuing.

For Yyou to claim to be obeying me when you are disobeying me, and accusing my students who are the most kind to me, and have done much unselfish, grand work for our church, and want to do right, is not justifiable. Worst of all you take mother's name your mother as your authority for accusing them in the most shocking manner, thus laying the foundation of disaffection between me and my students which would blight their libves, afflict me, and obey the mandate of mesmerists.

Now make your choice between stopping this course, and staying in Bo [?] Unclear or illegible ston and publishihng my books, or going away as soon as you can. Choose, your selfCorrected:yourself, where you will go; but reemember that God will never prosper you long in a any place if you continue to disobey me and then to take me as authority for whatever you are droing or saying. This dishonesty i [?] Unclear or illegible s a fatal mistake and is why your house falls to the ground.

If you go from Boston it is not on my account that you leave, or as you say "to help Mother make her demonstration." when you were here. The only reason for your leaving will be because you are making disturbance among my students, and injuring yourself, and the CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science., and may do better somewhere else.

Your book accounts I have had thoroughly examined, and the result shows that I have received royalty on but 34 copies of Science And HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy more than you have sold. Even this should not be have been, but it is not a wide divergency and exhonorates you, which was my chief desire in doing it. Your books could not be audited, they were kept in such a manner, and it can be shown that in the list you sent to Mr. Frye from binder's bills, you made a mistake of over 500 books! Now dear, this was not intentional, but is not safe. Mr Neal made your accounts to be 139 books in excess of what you had received from the binder, but his computation was not accurate probably from errors in the entries of sales. I rejoice that it is as well as it is.

Remember that those who audited your books are not to be blamed for their report. Mr Bates said to us both when you were here that they could not understand your accounts. It has taken me a long time to find just the facts concerning them., This which I did to justify you. It is now proven that you were honest. But you must never guess at accounts! This was what caused the false entry in my favor of 34 books. I allow no guesswork in Mr. Frye's bookkeeping, and never have since he made a mistake years ago, and your book keepingCorrected:bookkeeping must also be as correct. You are not an expert bookkeeper and really need to learn to do this if you continue as publisher of my book sacred books.

Now make your choice quickly between two things: Remain in Boston and sell my books, keeping your accounts correctly,- and stop evil speaking, and quarreling with your brethren in the Mother Church; else, go to some place where you wish to, and livre as you promise in your letter, "more sacredly". Such an example of beligerence Corrected: belligerence as yours would put down the discipline of the church, trample on my teachings, destroy yourself, and perhaps cause others to follow your footsteps. Decide at once on the above grounds as to your staying or leaving. Also, answer me at once yes, or no, on the conditions that I have specified. I require no more of you than I shall of all my stucdents who belong to the church in Boston. This quarreling among Church members must cease. Of course, I see a fault in a student of mine sooner than you can. But instead of telling this fault to others, and magnifying it, I go communicate at once to with that student and work to correct it.

You know I have tried many years to correct your faults, but you wouild never see a fault in yourself, if you could avoid it, or only for a moment of confession, and then go right on the same as before. The effect of this great error is now upon you.

You know that when I send for you to come to Concord it is not to help me, for you have always made trouble with my help, and you have no care for me; that hope I gave up long ago. It is to help you, and save you, and only for that that which I call you home, now. But your neglect of all I need, and that I ever asked you to do for me, and your cruelty in return for my agonizzed efforts to do you good, I can and do forgive. It is not natural for a son to treat his mother thus. And yet you call me "mamma" and claim your sonship.! This is not honest in the sight of God, and cannot escape the penalty due to it.

It is love, deep, sincere and bleeding that controls my motive in what I have written in this letter,; not love for your character and life as known to me in many things some ways, but motherly love that yearns for your true prosperity, happiness, and salvation, far beyond what my pen describes.