7 Albermarle St., Boston.
My dear Mrs. Eddy:—What a beautiful painting your "Sunrise at Pleasant View" is! Its whole tone shows so unmistakably that it comes from a pure heart. I want so much to thank you for showing me in this lovely description that it takes goodness to really appreciate and express beauty. How intelligent, too, Truth makes one in all directions! I am an artist; and I am sure that no one who makes landscape painting a vocation could improve upon the arrangement and composition of color you have given us; it is certainly technical perfection. If it were not that I understand a little of Christian Science, I should think it impossible for any one but a practical artist to attain such artistic Truth.
It is vain for us to hope to delineate the beautiful without living lives of goodness and beauty; but when that Mind shall be in us which was also in the "one altogether lovely,'' our every thought will be beautifully expressed, be it in words, colors, or notes.
