Dear Student
Yours of the 31st /Editorial Note: This letter is not extant. came duly and in reply would say that if you have no booksEditorial Note: Copies of Science and Health. we will supply you by your request they will answer any question that may be asked and by their buying a book the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science will be conveyed to them an hundred fold more than by your answering their questions and as you wish to sell the books say to them the book will answer any question pertaining to the ScienceEditorial Note: Christian Science or Christianity As Written: christianity —I sold when practicing a book As Written: bok to nearly every patient I found the patients gained a third faster with the book than without it and is an excellent advertisement to both Author and Student I took occasion to say at the first treatment my charges are two dollarsEditorial Note: $2 in 1879 is the equivalent of $51.34 in 2015. for the first treatment and oneEditorial Note: $1 in 1879 is the equivalent of $25.67 in 2015. afterward but if you take a bookEditorial Note: Science and Health it will render my work easier and facilitate your recovery at least one third faster and they would nearly all take a BookEditorial Note: Science and Health
Now Mr. Choate I know you are capable of so presenting the bookEditorial Note: Science and Health as to sell it and it will be of great advantage to you and us as well as to the patient if you do this
I am much elated with your success so far and Mrs. Choate is greatly encouraged and though we have to suffer persecutions yet the dear masterEditorial Note: Jesus Christ hath said be of good cheer I have overcome the worldJohn 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. and lo I am with you even to the end of the worldMatt 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. —to the end of materiality and the persecutions of mortal belief