The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-14
Not While Mrs. Eddy Lives.

| clared his determination not TO nrint
| his fathers writing during the lifetime
of Mrs. Eddy. Mrs. Eddy has said that
she wrote many of the Quimby manu-
scripts, which may account for Mr..
| Quimby's policy.
But 1 should think you would have
gone willingly. would have been eager
and anxious to go and prove legally
what you have asserted so long. Don't
you know that Mrs. Eddy has said that
she frequently took your fathers 'scrib-
blings' TO overlook and correct, as he
was not scholarly nor literary. That
! she revised them and copied them and
returned them sometimes with his
name written across the back?''
Lies, lies" cried Mr.. Quimby. She
never saw any of these books"
Nor any Of his writing?"
mo"
Then how I'm the world could she
have stolen his ideas for her own
book?"
why. she talked with him day after
day. didn't she. And she might have
had access to his writing. I don't
mean that she never saw any of his
writing"
There is n particular manuscript.
said TO have been your fathers. which
Mrs. Eddy is accused of having copied
and carried away with her and based
her book upon. Do you know about
that?''
why. that was the Questions and
Answers that they tell about her hav-
ing I'm StoughtOn at the Wentworths,
wasn't It? Well. 1 have that manu-
script. 1 have them ALL
''Mr. Quimby," 1 said, walking over
to where he sat by his desk; Il ask
you seriously, and it shall be for the
last time, to let me see your fathers
papers. I agree not to copy anything
from them or to handle them other
than you permit"
Mr.. Quimby's answer was an ohsti-
nate shake of the head
We thereupon dropped this particular
phase of the subject But the impress
sion distinctly conveyed was that NO
manuscripts worthy of the name. no
articles showing formulated thought.
no treatise on the science of life exist
in the handwriting of Phineas P. Quinn
by. The copybookS, filed with the neat
handwriting of several ladies dead and
gone, may contain some Of Mr.. Quinn
by's fathers ideas, some OF his CONVEX
satlons, and some Of his penciled notes. |
They are, themselves, In a chaotic form |
as to literary style and composition
and would make strange reading if put |
in type. they most likely never will
be. for Mr.. Quimby seems very doubt
full about il.
do you think your father was the
author of Christian Science?" was NV
next question after dropping the man.
uscript discussion.
81 think this: If Mrs Eddy had new
or visited my father. Christian Science /
would never have been born Size took
his ideas and hitched ner religious |
trolley onto them and made I'D her
so-called science"
Quimby's RecoIIections of Mrs. Eddy.
WAS your father a religious MANI"
WELL" said Mr.. Quimby. that de-
pends upon what you mean by reiig-
ious." Mr.. Quimby here told a story
about a man who was "a believer in
religion, but not theology by d.
sight" His explanation of his fathers
attitude was that he Up. p. Quimby)
believed Jesus mission to the world
was to bring health and healing, not 10
establish a religion. P. p. Quimby at
tended the Unitarian church and was a
good man. but he was not religiously
inclined and was interested in healing
% the exclusion of everything. George
Quiuby was nineteen when he went to
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