Letters December 1, 1906 Issue

LETTERS TO OUR LEADER

with contributions from Edward P. Bates, L. A. Bowker, Wm. Royle, John Strange Winter, May P. Cameron, Mary T. Scott

Boston, Mass., Nov. 2I, I906.

My Dear Teacher:—I am conversant with some facts which perhaps have not come under the observation of main of your students, and considering the questions which have recently appeared it may interest you to be advised that I have this information. On the tenth day of January, I887, I entered your primary class at Boston. A few days later, in conversation with you about the preparation of a theme, you suggested that I call on the late J. Henry Wiggin to assist me in analyzing and arranging the topics, which I did about the twentieth of the above-named month. These dates are very well fixed in my memory, as I considered the time an important one in my experience, and do so still. I also recall very plainly the conversation with you in general as regards Mr. Wiggin. You told me that he had done some literary work for you and that he was a fine literary student and a good proofreader.

Upon calling on Mr. Wiggin, I presented my matter for a theme to him, and he readily consented to assist me, which he did. He also seemed very much pleased to converse about you and your work, and I found that his statement of what he had done for you exactly agreed with what you had told me. He also expressed himself freely as to his high regard for you as a Christian lady, as an author, and as a student of ability. He spoke of Science and Health as being a very unique book and seemed quite proud of his having had something to do with some editions. He always spoke of you as the author of this book and the author of all your works. Mr. Wiggin did not claim to be a Christian Scientist, but was in a measure in sympathy with the movement, although he did not endorse all the statements in your text-book; but his tendency was friendly.

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