The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-14
THE STORY OF THE
REAL MRS. EDDY
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his father in Portland to assist him II
his practice by looking after his bust
ness. He was full of active interest il
life, he declared, and his fathers mis-
sion did not particularly engage hi
attention.
do you remember when Mrs. Eddy
then Mrs. Patterson, came to visit you
tather2"
Yes, / do remember her well. Sh,
was a rather good-looking woman, tall
thin and pale. I never liked her
thought she was fawning, affected. de-
ceitful and as vain as a peacock"
How could she show vanity wher
she was so very poor, as many persons
have stated that she was at that time p
We'll, she showed it in the way she
walked and acted. You can wear q
dress so that you can act proud if your
dress is only calico"
Might one not have said she was OF
superior bearing. but gentle and en-
gaging in her manner, as we'll as TO
describe her as you have done?"
Dir. Quimpy simply looked out from
under his brows in a stormy manner.
We'll, did your father share your
opinion, or did he like Mrs. Patterson '
Why. he liked her. He thought she
was a bright woman"
Did he say 'devilish bright as he
has been quoted?"
He may have"
did he talk with Mrs. Patterson
much?"
Yes. he did. He talked with her
every day. She was in his office as
much as any patient he had and
seemed to hang on his ideas. 1 used
to say to father. You'd better look out
or that woman will steal your thun-
DER"
1 VIII interrupt my Interview with
MIR. Quimby at this point to state that
Mrs. Eddy has said frequently IN writ
ing and to her students that she gave
as freely of her own ideas to Phineas
+. Quimby as she took suggestions
from him. That she wrote many man
uscripts for him and corrected others,
and that she signed his name freely TO
such writings. She thinks that many
of these were afterward copied by 9TH
er patients. Her belief and her word
Is therefore set over against Mr.. George
A. Quimby's, who was then a lad of
nineteen, not particularly interested in
philosophic speculation. AS to whose
influence in their mutual thought was
the greater at that time, P. p. Quinn
by's or Mrs. Eddy's, it is unnecessary
TO inquire. Without doubt, P. P. Quinn
by's was in some respects. Mrs. Eddy
has said he mesmeriZed her thought
and she did not throw off his influence
until after his death. l asked Mr..
Quimby if his father was a mesmerist
My father began his work as a mes
merist." said MIR. Quimby. But be-
fore his death he believed and taught
that disease originated in the mind and
could be expelled from the body
through the mind.
"My Fathers Ideas Were Original"
Did he manipulate his patients?"
Yes. but you must remember that
in those days the world was not famiI-
lar as ii is today with the idea of mem
tai suggestion. He had to manipulate
his patients to show them he was do
ing something for them"
Did you father get any Of his ideas
from other writers or teachers?'
mo, he did not. Everything he
taught was original with him."
Mr.. Quimby had already stated that
his father read the works of ancient
philosophers. And he also said his IA
ther got his idea of mesmerism from a
Frenchman named Poyen, who visited
Maine in the fOrties.
Did your father ever know a man
by the name of John Bovee Dods?" 1
asked Mr.. Quimby.
Yes. a man of that name visited Bel
fast. He took fathers hypnotic subject.
Lucian Burkmar, and used him in his
exhibitions"
did your father converse with Dods.
study with him, or attend his lectures %
He may have talked with him and
attended his lectures. But he never
studied with him."
did he ever read his book?"
HE probably did"
As a matter of fact, John Bovee
Dods was the author of q book printed
In 1850, which contained ideas he had
taught for twenty years previous,
called THE Philosophy of Electrical
Psychology" This book contains twelve
lectures which deal very much as did
Quimby with the nature of man, at
least as Quimby is reported in books
on Quimbyism to have believed. John
Bovee Dods antecedes Quimby and his
ideas about thirty years, and might as
we'll be said 10 have established the
foundation of mental healing. The book
is still in print and is curious treat
1se, but from the glimpses caught of
the incnoate thoughts in the jealously-
guarded copies of copies in the hands
OF George A Quimby. one must believe
that the quaint little volume entitled
The Philosophy of Electrical Psychol-
ogy' would make superior reading to
even that of the copybook philosophy.
were 1t ever put In print.
Was Dr.. ouimby a Mesmerist?
Mrs. Eddy has stated that p p.
Quimby was a mesmerist. that he mes
mertzed her body and hypnotized her
thought. She has said that she did not
completely recover from the hypnotic
effect OF his thought until after his
death, when she seriously applied her
self TO the formulation OF her own doc
trine of Christian Science which had
been revealed to her by divine inspira-
ton after she had suffered a serious
injury by a fall on a slippery pave
ment in Lynn. She was a nuElber of
years affected by the tinge of Quirnhy's
ideas before she threw his
influence off absolutely and. giving her
book to the world, was the first enun-
ciator of absoluts Mind science. And
Christian Science was founded. its text
hook written. before the modern school
of mental scientists were heard of.
These writers appear TO have recon-
structed Quimbyism through backward
from Mrs. Eddy's teachings
To know the true Quimby the writer
visited various old citizens OF Belfast
and asked them no relate What