Beloved Teacher: — I have for some days felt a great desire to write you, to let you know of our progress Spiritward, in this part of the vineyard. We realize more and more each day how much you have done for us individually, and for all humanity, in bringing this realization of Truth to our consciousness. What safety we have felt, throughout all this claim of error that to many has seemed so real, in the consciousness that we were dwelling in "the secret place of The Most High!" For the families taking treatment, we held the thought: "No evil can befall them, neither can any plague come nigh their dwellings; because they have made the Lord, who is our Refuge, their habitation; because they are resting in this Truth which we can demonstrate, and which they have seen demonstrated before." We have had many cases of this claim of error, and have not lost a single one; while medical physicians have lost many. Truth is mighty!
We have for some time past had the most delightful meetings in Sunday services, Sabbath school, parlor talks, and association meetings; so much of the Spirit, and such perfect love and harmony has been manifested! I many times have wished you could be present; for it would be a great satisfaction to see those to whom you have given birth (in the Truth) realizing such harmony and peace, when meeting together for Spiritual development. We have our annual reunion next Wednesday evening; when we expect all our students to spend the evening together in the one thought "Love," which to us is the highest expression of God.
We held our first communion service one week ago. Our hall was full, all anxious to see how the "Lord's Supper" was to be administered in Christian Science. I explained, as well as I could, the Spiritual interpretation of "breaking bread" (Truth); of partaking of the "cup which Jesus drank"; also of "washing the disciples' feet ": that the latter really means guarding our "lower natures" from the error which, in belief, is in the world; that this is in reality the command which Jesus laid the most stress upon. I showed that the "Church" is following the literal direction in one case, while ignoring it in the other; that if they do one in the material, it is right they should do the other in the material sense also. Many were very deeply impressed by the service, and said they never saw it in that light before. Peace be with you.
