My Dear Friend:— Your exceedingly thoughtful letter received, and read with deep and earnest interest. It is evidence of your sincere and true love for the welfare and good of your boy. I can assure you that I have a great interest in his progress. We know that progress means a higher, more exalted condition, for progress is the sure reward for obeying the commands of the Master.

Your letter brings out clearly the true mother love, of which any son can well be proud. There is no love known to mankind, from the human standpoint, so true as mother-love, but we shall all soon know there is but one Father-Mother, and that is God. We are all His children, and are brothers and sisters. Jesus commanded us to call no one Father upon earth, for one is our Father in heaven,-harmony. This clearly establishes the relationship on the whole, and on a more everlasting, eternal plane, and when we understand our true relationship to God, we then, as recorded in the first chapter of Genesis, shall have dominion. Now, to have dominion means to be subject to only one Father. If we are running away from every little condition that confronts us in this world, these conditions have dominion, not we, which is contrary to the teachings of the Holy Scriptures. We are told that we must rise to the full stature of Christ Jesus, and know the Truth, and the Truth shall make us free. We know, as the Bible records, that God is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path, and we shall hear a voice behind us saying, "This is the way; walk ye in it." Our duty is to listen earnestly and prayerfully, and in meekness, for this voice, and when we walk in accordance with it, we find at the very threshold of our existence, light, health, progress, happiness, comfort, and everything that goes to make up the continuity of life. When we understand that the Principle of life is God, and we know there can be no impossibilities with God, we know this Principle is the same to-day, yesterday, and forever, it is applicable to us here and now; we can work out our own salvation by following the leading of this Principle.

It is just as applicable to our health and happiness as the mathematical problem is to mathematics. No one hesitates to say that the principle is capable of being worked in any altitude, latitude, or longitude, in any country, and that nothing interferes with it,—height nor depth, heat nor cold, and it resolves this into the fact that it is the same everywhere; and we all know that in proportion as one understands the principle of mathematics, he works the example with mathematical certainty and only in proportion that he does know the principle can he work out the problem

Now, the Bible tells us that God is too pure to behold iniquity. This becomes clear to us from an illustration of mathematics. We know the principle of mathematics could never stoop to behold a mistake in numbers. For instance, two and two are four, and this is mathematically harmonious with the principle. That two and two are five is not true, and is no part of mathematics, and cannot be recognized by the principle.

We cannot be successful while thinking about failure. We cannot draw a picture of a locomotive thinking about a steamboat. We must have the outline in our mind that it may be communicated through the pencil to the paper.

We cannot gain health, or draw a picture of health, thinking of and talking of sickness. We are learning that must talk and think only of that which we wish to have made manifest, and which we all wish to enjoy and have others enjoy. We shall learn that it is just as easy to pick flowers as it is to pick weeds, and I feel that you need have no more concern about the boy. He, I am sure, was greatly benefited by my reading your letter to him, and I feel that he is receptive of the good and true, and the result will be the establishment of his health.

He is now in our office, and I am sure will make a valuable lieutenant, and as fast as he is able to receive, he will get. All things depend upon ourselves. It is an undeniable fact that as we sow, so shall we reap. This is an invariable law of God and cannot be changed or reversed. It is the sowing we must watch, for the reaping will be in direct proportion to the sowing. If we sow thoughts of health and happiness and love and sympathy for our fellow-man we shall reap the fruit of such thoughts, which are peace, contentment, health, and happiness. It is a simple clear case of common sense, and we are relieved of all superstition and worries of the so-called laws of man. We know there is only one law, and that is God's perfect law which annuls the other so-called laws. Your earnestness to help your son can best be expressed by what you are willing to do to investigate the subject that offers absolute and sure relief and establishes him in perfect health. It is not a question of experiment, but it is an absolute fact that the only physician is God's omnipotent love. We may have thought of prayer as spoken words, but we learn in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, that prayer is a sincere desire and "habitual struggle to be always good," to do well and serve God. When we know that prayer is desire, then we see how practical it is for us to obey Paul's direction to pray without ceasing. In a little book called "No and Yes" (one of Mrs. Eddy's writings) page 49, we read: "Prayer is the utilization of the Love wherewith He loves us." Now if we utilize in our daily life, home life, social life, in fact, every walk of life, that love toward our fellow-men that God bears toward us, we shall not have to worry about material conditions; for it is said: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you," and you will find this literally true.

I hope for your son's sake you will investigate Christian Science. Do not take anything that I say or that anybody says, for God is no respecter of persons and will reveal Himself and His kingdom to you as clearly as to any one, and in direct proportion to your willingness to become as a little child, receptive and ready to obey the commands of Christ Jesus, as recorded in the Sermon on the Mount and the four Gospels. I also feel that if you will read the 91st and the 23d Psalms they will give you great help and strength and protection to you and yours.

You know that I am a busy man, and on the go from early in the morning until late at night, but I never forget what Jesus said at twelve years of age, when his father and mother found him in the Temple talking to the learned men. When they remonstrated with him he simply stated that he was about his Father's business. In later years when he found certain men fishing, he called them to him as disciples and said he would make them fishers of men. So if through our daily life we can bring the light and truth to one of our brethren and see him restored to health and happiness,—when we are able to do this we must be receptive of God and His love. This in turn brings us success and all that is good and true.

Should you ever come to visit your son, we extend you a cordial invitation to come and see us, and if there is anything further we could do or say, we should be delighted to be called upon. I am giving your son a golden opportunity, and in proportion as he realizes the opportunity and walks in accordance with the light shown, he will gain strength, health, success, and progress. We know God always does His duty. Then if I do my duty in giving the boy an opportunity and endeavor to show him the way, then it comes to do his part.

Yours sincerely, H.