Editor Christian Science Journal: Attending our Bible class, eleven families are represented, embracing about forty persons. There are two families more who are unable to attend our meetings by reason of distance. I have been in Science only four or five months.
Mrs. E. W. taught a primary class here last fall. I went out of curiosity, and do not regret having attended. I was superintendent of the Presbyterian Sunday school till we started our Science class. Our teacher told us to go to church, knowing, as Mrs. Eddy says, "Motive and act are not rightly valued until understood." Some of us here yet have the notion that it is well to attend other churches. Perhaps it may be all right. Scientists allow each one to judge for himself, but for my part, I have got along better since I stopped handling or hearing the fragments. The Orthodox minister here talked in favor of Science till he saw that it was taking his followers away; now he ridicules us. He preaches his farewell sermon Sunday. He predicts that ere a year has passed, Science will be very quiet.
We are a farming community, living at distances, on the average, of one-half a mile to one mile between the houses. We hold meetings in private houses.
