My dear Teacher, Mrs. Eddy: Would you like to hear from the Quaker City Pioneer? Thought has been prompting me for months to report to you the progress of Christian Science in this city, but, knowing of your many cares and much-occupied time, I have deferred writing; but today I can not resist the desire.
I know you will rejoice with me when I write you of the crowning victory of Christian Science in this city. Surely Truth is all-powerful, and error is a coward when Truth attacks it.
It is one year next month since I came to Richmond. I knew no one here, and no one knew me. Christian Science they knew nothing of. People thought they did not want it. I knew they did, but they could not see in darkness. The physicians paid but little attention to me at first, but now they are thoroughly roused. At the regular meeting of the Tuesday Evening Literary Club, to which all the high order of minds of Richmond are supposed to belong, one of the physicians of this city read a paper on Christian Science. A notice of it was given in the papers. This physician bought the book, Science and Health, of me, and no doubt thought he could give the eager listeners a full explanation of this grand Truth, and call the devoted Founder of Christian Science a fraud. Some were for it, others against it; but one gentleman—a patient of mine, healed in Science—defended the Cause. He told the physicians that Christian Science was in its infancy, and must have a chance to grow; while their system was old and moss-grown.
