In your public letter anathematizing Christian Science and its text-book, "Science and Health," you assail the religious views and life of members of your own and of other evangelical churches, the Pastor of the Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, and insult the sacred opinions of more than a hundred thousand readers of this book.
At an early age, I united with a Congregationalist church, at Tilton, N. H., of which I have been a member in good standing over thirty years. Before leaving my native state, I communicated to my pastor the new and more spiritualized sense I entertain of the power of Christianity, its cause and effect, requested a letter of dismission from my church, gave the Pastor my published works to examine before granting it, and received the following reply—
Jan. 13th, 1875.
