Your excellent letters were duly received, and each day there afterCorrected:thereafter I tried to find moments in which to answer them To dayCorrected:Today is my very first opportunity.

I rejoice to read a noticeEditorial Note: On November 24, 1897, Christian Scientists in Troy, New York, dedicated a new chapel they had just completed. An announcement from the Troy Daily Record was republished in the January 1898 issue of The Christian Science Journal. of the dedication of your cChapel pending the erection of a church.

Your quiet efficient labors specially commend themselves to me. I hope the church shows are now over. I saw the advantage of giving emphasis to the Chicago DedicationEditorial Note: A lengthy article about the dedication of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago, was published in the December 1897 issue ofThe Christian Science Journal., beyond this, I recommend to all churches to give no special publicity and particularly no public pictures of their churches. It is too commercial, too cheap looking, too little like things that come in course and to stay; and too like a suprise Corrected: surprise that one can have a church edifice! to suit me These have always been my views on this subject. I felt so even in regard to The mMother Church – although that is an exception to all others.

In His light you have all models, all example; and this light is for the illumination of all taste, culture, scholarship, morals physics and Metaphysics. A Christian Scientist is as much perfected in the above whole, as in any part of those. My desire and prayer is "Father make them perfect even ast Thou art perfectMatt 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. . Give my love to your dear church; lead thou its members into lightI Pet 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: .