With my the cold form of beloved husband lying on his bier in my desolated home forever still I appeal to you once more, and if you are not darkened to the sense of the awful crimes I know you will stop them by every influence in your power.

I have power to discern the cause of his death, I never was mistaken in the mental cause in this case and what I say the future will declare, namely; that Edward J. Arnes has caused the death of my husbandEditorial Note: Mary Baker Eddy believed Asa Gilbert Eddy’s death was caused by the mental malpractice of Edward J. Arens and others. in connection with his cooperators so far as I can clearly discern in my diagnosis of the case.

In this awful hour, I sent for him that I might point to the silent lips and say to Mr. Arnes over his corpse, “thou art the manII Sam 12:7 ¶And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul; —and then ask him to remember what that dear one and I had done to save him from his own awful nature by our teachings.

How we sheltered him when he had no home and friends, how I took from my loving humane husband, hundreds of dollars to extricate him from peril that his own conduct, uninfluenced by us, had brought upon him. How I have suffered his gigantic frauds silently, taking not only our money falsely and breaking all his agreements to pay us, but still persuing, Corrected: pursuing claiming as his own, my hard earned writings and labors, and last O! horrible to relate, in cold blood with malice afore thoughtEditorial Note: aforethought, taking from me all of earth I had to lose. Do you forget your sorrow at the thought of loosing Corrected: losing your wife? and do you forget my pity and that I saved her to make happy your declining years? and have you no mercy for me if you can stay this bloodshed? and if not God will avenge it, tis’ but a little time before his justice will meet the hour. I never knew untill Corrected: until after the birth, that your daughter was about to be a mother, and then I heard of her sufferings and took her into my mind to prevent any danger from the use of instruments: but today she did not send her wicked husband at my request to see mine in his shroud.