Your last two lettersEditorial Note: These letters are not extant. requesting an interview for yourself and friend I answered by wire.

But am convinced that this way of meeting your problem is not the right way.

I have advised you long enough in accord with what I write and teach publicly, to have made you one of the most distinguished heroines for Truth's sake if you had been in accord with your husband in Christian Science. But as you and he have differing views on the question – I must say that I cannot any longer give you any time in corresponding or talking with you on questions of a private nature, or on the great question of ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science.

My labor is and must be in vain under such circumstancesPs 127:1 Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

I always decline to say anything to a husband or his wife that will in any way promote a disunity. And now you must unite on the grounds of Truth, or error, in your views. So I leave you to this straight and narrow way trusting that you both will go to God and Him only for help and will find all your questions answered in His love.