Chicago, Ill., November 15, 1897.
REV. MARY BAKER EDDY.
Dear Mother:—It was a host, not audiences; the triumphant congregation of Israel of the Spirit. The Temple as a whole and in detail is massive, chaste, noble, pure. The lesson of unity these students have taught the field I perceive is great. Your address was listened to by those four mighty throngs in breathless stillness. You covered the whole area of the thought-world of this hour in Christian mentality, and in all religious consciousness. You met face to face the higher Biblical criticism, evolution, natural science, scholastic theology, and the question of capital and labor. Mr. Kimball read your address finely, plainly, understandingly, lovingly. The event is epoch-making, and generally seen so by the large number of your students and field-workers gathered here. My recent change in New York City, I am daily seeing means, Impersonal ways, means, and work. It begins, yea, has revealed its deeper import.
