Your sweet arbutus is a prayer above the snow. I thank you. I feel you now have mother with you and it relieves me somewhat.

My heart speaks to you in my last bookEditorial Note: Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy and Science and HealthEditorial Note: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy has so much of the divine Heart in it, mine is not as much expressed. But in this, and in all reality Thine and mine are not severed As Written: sevevered and differ only in quantity. The quality of God and goodness is the same

In our next C. S. Journal will be a notice to StudentsEditorial Note: See "Notice" in the March 1897 issue of The Christian Science Journal. to abstain from teaching one year from March 14 1897. This is, that Divine Science shall be taught more divinely, by the reading of Mis. Writ.Editorial Note: Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy The human teaching tends to liquidate the genuineness of Truth. It always has, and always will. I taught, to teach, with great reluctance knowing this. But knowing that spurious teaching of Divine Metaphysics was going on I instituted a Normal Class hoping thereby to lessen the effects of this scourge. The lack of spirituality and the abundance of vainglory and tyrannyAs Written:tyrany in many of my students have hurt more than a little our CauseEditorial Note: The cause of Christian Science. The best students that I taught M.D.s, D.D.', – Scholars — and people of much refinement and influence in society, were discouraged by this and demoralized by m. a. m. – to such extent they dropped out of our ranks rapidly in the early history of Christian ScienceAs Written:C.S. This has diminished my numbers of the best sort. Yet, thank God, some continued As Written: continud and remain to gladden As Written: gladen my heart.

May you dear one see more than my present harvest of true Christian Scientists; and gain each day and year a rich reward of its glorious spirit governing all you think, say, and do.