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396 she wrote to Mr. Nixon that God had directed her to recommend a certain candidate for the editorship of the Journal:

385 Commonwealth Ave.&emsp;&emsp; , Sept. 30 1889&emsp;

God our God has just told me who to recommend to you for the Editor of C. S. Jour. but you are not to name me in this transaction. It is Rev. Charles Macomber Smith D.D. 164 Summer St Somerville Mass. He was healed by reading Science and Health and left a large salary to preach Christian Science and then left that position for the hope J. F. Bailey had held out to him of preaching for my Church but I objected to taking him solely because his church had not been consulted before giving him a call.

Get him sure but be very reticent let it not be known until he is engaged or you will have a fuss about it.

Mr. Nixon had not had time to act upon this letter when he received another in which Mrs. Eddy explained that her recommendation of Mr. Smith had been the result of mesmerism, and not of divine inspiration:

62 State St.&emsp;&emsp;

I regret having named the one I did to you for Editor It is a mistake he is not fit  It was not God evidently that suggested that thought but the person who suggests many things mentally but I have before been able to discriminate I wrote too soon after it came to my thought  He has not been taught C. S. and I hear refuses to be taught by any one but me. Love to wife

In another letter she reprimands her publisher for not affixing the author's name whenever he refers to Science and Health in the columns of the Journal, and for not printing the name