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question. and he replied, in substance
.',rhere is no evidence to present
ut seems scarcely necessary TO adu,
that Mr.. Arens' defense, as set 1orth
in his answer, having been that the
works. the copyright OF Whlch ne III
fringed were not original with MIS-.
Eddy he would, had it been possible,
have produced the proof necessary to
support his answer. 1t is evident that
this evidence was vital in the case, as
he apparently had no other. The fact
that he failed to produce his proof
is conclusive evidence that no such
proof existed.
mo honest or dsinterested person,
in the face of this record, would I'M
dertake to falsify the record by in
sistfng that Mrs. Eddy's works were
plagiarized from DIR. Quimby's writ
ings. The absurdity, as we'll as the
utter falsity of this claim, are at once
apparent. AS a mere matter OF self
respect, if for no other reason, the
persons now lending themselves to the
circulation of the falSehood, will see
that they are merely stultifying them
selves
Mrs. Eddy further says of DR..
Quimby:
"'He was neither a scholar nor a
metaphySician. / never heard him say
that matter was not as real as mind,
or that electricity was not as potential
or remedial, or allude to God as the
Divine principle of all healing. He
certainly had advanced views of his
own, but they commingled error with
truth and were not Science. On his
rare humanity and sympathy one
could write a sonnet
'In the same article Mrs. Eddy says
that Dr. Quimby was magnetic prac-
titioner. She asked him how manipu-
Lot hnnafit tho sick He
swered kindly and squarely, in sub
stance: Because it conveys electri-
city to them That was the sum of
what he taught her of his medical
profession"
Mrs. Eddy i'm her Miscellaneous
Writings, page $40, further saws:
1T was after Mr.. Quimby's death
that | discovered. in 1856, the momen-
tous facts relating to Mind and its SUI
periority over matter, and named my
discovery Christian Science. Yet, there
remained the difficulty of adjusting
in the scale OF Science metaphysical
practice and settling the question,
What shall be the outward syn of
such a practice: if a Divine Princi-
pie alone heals, what is the human
Inodus for demonstrating this,-in
short, how can sinful mortals prove
that a Divine Principle heals the
sick, as we'll as governs the universe.
time space, Immortality, man? She
adds: But an unlooked-for, impera-
tive. call for help, impelled me to be-
gin the StupendouS work at once, and
teach the first student in Christian
Science. Even as when an accident
called fatal to life, had driven me to
discover the Science of Life, | again,
i'm faith, turned to Divine help,-and
commenced teaching.
81 republish from the Christian
Science Journal of November, 1886,
the following attested statement in
reference to DR.. Quimbys method of
healing the sick:
sc Il was treated by DR.. p. p. Quimby,
in Portland, for neuralgia in the head.
Mrs. Eddy was also a patient of his. /
first met her there, and it was in the
summer of 1862. His mode of treat
ing the sick was to immense his hands
in water and manipulate their heads.
Ny father CIV. p. Morgan), offered
him 81 600 to explain his method of
treating disease. to which the Doctor
replied: L cannot; / do not under
stand it myself l never knew of his
attempting to teach any one. His
method was entirely different from
Mrs. E.ddy's system of Christian
Science.
(Winess)
MRS. f. A. THOMPSON"
we concur III aHlffnlnS the kllOWII
truth of the above statement.
MRS. A. d. MORGAN.
"W p MORGAN, A. M.
"MRS. A. r. RUTTEN.''
minneapolis, Mimi, Sept, 1885,
MANY more are ready to bear tes-
timony to the facts as above stated. "
'"To the foregoing L am glad to add
the following from the pen of Mrs.
Eddy:
"In 1861, when I first visited DIR.
Quimby of Portland. Maine. his scrib-
blings were descriptions of his pa
ITEMS; and comprised the MSS. that
in 1887, l advertised l would pay for
having published. Before his decease.
in January, 1866, he had tried to get
them published and failed. The quo
tationS contained in the article above
-purporting to be DR.. Quimby's own
words-were written while l was his
patient in Portland and holding long
conversations with him on my views
of mental therapeutics. Some words
in his quotations certainly read ike
words that l 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 treatment and manipulation
OF patents, lneTe WIS d SClelcc, anu
it was the science of Mind, that had
nothing TO do with matter, electricity,
of physics. After this | noticed he
used that word. as we'll as other
terms which / employed, which seem
ed at first new to him. He even ac-
knowledged this himself, and startled
me by saying, what L cannot forget
1t was this: L see now what you
mean, and l see that / am John. and
that you are Jesus
"At that date l was staunch ortho-
dox, and my theological belief was Of
Tended by his saying, and l entered a
demurrer that rebuked him. But af-
forwards l concluded that he only re-
ferred to the coming anew of Truth,
which we both desired; for in some
respects the coming anew of Truth,
which we both desired; for in some
respects he was quite a seer, and I'M
derstood what / said better than some
others did-and, for one so unlearned
he was a remarkable man. Had his
= remark related to my personality,
should still think it was profane. Al
first my case improved wonderfully
under his treatment, but relapsed.
was gradually emerging from materia
medica, dogma, and creeds and drift