Jan 6 1893
It was most pleasant to get a letter from you. And I would like to help you and the dear little band of Christian Scientists if I had at my control the right man or woman as I hope you may have before long. Dear Mrs. Bell is good and true, but her deafness puts it out of the possibilities As Written: possibilites for her to meet all the duties of a pastor until she takes this beam out of her own eyeMatt 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Matt 7:4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Matt 7:5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. . All through my classes it was an obstacle for her, no one else, to overcome. I allow no one to report anything to me against her and did not know she was belied. But this we all must share to a greater or less extent. I regretted As Written: regetted the movement made in severing the membership of the first church in your city. I never was responsible for a single movement in all that was done I was informed As Written: inforned that Mrs Linscott reported me as guiding it, but this was absolutely false. I obstinately refused to do so. And now I must again say that I know of no one at liberty to take your pastorate except Mr. Linscott and if his wife would leave him to God's direction I think he would do well for he did well in DenverEditorial Note: Denver, Colorado..
