You literally publish my works through the pulpit, instead [15]

of the press, and thus evade the law, but not the gospel.

When I consent to this act, you will then be justified

in it.

Your manuscript copy is liable, in some way, to be

printed as your original writings, thus incurring the pen- [20]

alty of the law, and increasing the record of theft in the

United States Circuit Court.

To The Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, which I

had organized and of which I had for many years been