Your very kind and christian letterEditorial Note: See 295.42.002. received and I haste to reply with thanks.
Do not give yourself the least anxiety about anyoneAs Written:any one standing between my love for Miss. Brown and its natural manifestation because I rebuke her. If I never did this my students would not see the silent inroads mesmerism may make upon them. It is no pleasant task but the greatest cross of my life. Still I know certain students will not get on nearly as fast without this, and no student can see my reasons for so doing; if they could, the rebuke would not be given because it would not be needed. It is impossible for a silent or audible argument or report to influence my mind in regard to one of my students; all either can do is, to impel As Written: impell me to speak when I am holding back, and before have seen the need of speaking.
Now I love Miss. Brown, and know her worth too well to let a hearsay influence me. I also beg you do not understand from what I say that she has done any great wrong or that I think so, but this is why I spoke sharp and strong to rouse her watch on certain points that must be kept guarded in her nature, when so much envy is excited over her grand success, of which I am not only proud, but for which I especially thank my FatherEditorial Note: God, and ask that He keep her from even the smallest errors until she became perfect even as the demand is.