The San Francisco call., 1899-04-30

90 No stranger who has visited Mr..
Quimby TO procure his fathers writ
ings has, or ever will have, the slight
est success But the fact that they
will not be published verbatim. except
under certain conditions not yet full
filled, is obviously no reason for 'dar-
ing their owner to issue them; there
are too many who know of their char
acter to doubt that they are precisely
as represented.
(6) AS for the statements in court of
DR.. E. j. Arens. referred to in the
Christian Science Sentinel. above men
toned, Mr.. Dresser knew DR.. Arens
and knows also that he never saw DT.
Quimby, and that nothing has ever
been settled in court concerning the
Quimby manuscripts.
(D The extracts quoted from Dr.
Quimby in the Sentinel are from ore
of his earlier articles. and do not ade-
quately represent him. He held very
exalted idea of God, quite superior
to that of Mrs. Eddy; he did not deny
the existence of matter; no friend OF
his claims that Mrs. Eddy has plagiar-
lied to any extent from DR.. Quimby's s
later manuscripts because she never
saw the best of them; DR.. Quimby was
not a spiritualist. and Mrs. Eddy pub
licly defended him against the charge
in Warren, Me, in the spring of 1864;
he did not teach that his treatment
was due to the transmission of cleo
tricity. he discarded mesmerism many
years before Mrs. Eddy visited him as
a patient in 1862: and the discovery
of Mrs Eddy in 1866 was simply the
fact that after DR.. Quimby's death.
with no one likely to succeed him, she
must depend upon herself, since her
revered teacher and helper could no
longer be called uOon, as formerly, to
help her out of every little ailment.
(S) The Sentinel quotes a letter from
Mrs. Eddy as follows:
The following extract copied from
taafR
well-known Christian Scientist may at
least amuse the readers of our journal.
After doing justice to this subject l
had dropped it, as we naturally turn
But evidence and testimony on the
side of truth are always in order, and
proverbially better late than never.
- 1t might be interesting for you to
know that Mr.. a. j. Swartz Of chicago
went to see the late DR.. T. p. Quinn
by's son, and procured his father
writings for the purpose of having
them published, in order to show the
world that your ideas were borrowed
from Quimby. After having examined
was found there was nothing that
would compare in any way to science
and health; and he, Swartz, concluded
that it would aid you too much to
publish them, so they were returned
to the owner.
Mrs. Swartz saw and read these
MSS. and she gave me this informa-
ton. MARY H: PHILBRICK.
"'Austin,. Ill, May IS, 1892; %: >, ,ooo>
Mr.. George A. Quimby, that there is
not a shadow Of truth in the above
claims. Mr.. SwartZ visited Belfast. it
is true, but was only permitted to read
and copy from the scrapbook contain
ing newspaper references to DR.. Quinn
by. Mr.. Quimby read aloud a few
paragraphs from his fathers writings,
but did not permit these writings
even to be examined by Mr. Swartz.
husband. and Mr.. Quimby never saw
her. l can produce statements in Mr..
SwartZs own words to show that
Mary H. Philbrick has wholly mis-
represented the result of the visit to
!(9) In the same issue of the Sentinel
Mrs. Eddy says:
I'm 1861, when I first visited DR..
SQuimby of Portland. Me, his .scrib-
tients, and comprised the manuscripts
that, in 1887, 1 advertised I would paw
for having published. Before his de-
cease, in January, 1866. he had tried
to get them published and failed.
THE quotations contained in the ar
tcle above-purporting to be DR..
Quimby's own words-were written
while | was his patient in Portland
and holding long conversations with
tics. Some words in these quotations
certainly read like words that | said
to him, and, at his request to correct
his copy, had added thereto. In his
conversations with me, and in his
scribblings, the word science was not
used at all, till one day ! declared to
him that back of his magnetic treat
ment and manipulation. of patients
there was a science, and it was the
science of mind, that had nothing to
do with matter electricity or phvsfns, -
Points in Dispute.
The truth, according to Mr.. Dresser, is
at DR.. Quimby left Portland in 1865 to
write his manuscripts for publication.
t died before they were in any respect
shape to offer to publisher. The state
mt that "he tried to get them published
d failed" is absolutely false. Equally