The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-05-23
INTERVIEWED AGAIN.
"Our George" Entertains New York World
Correspondent.

"Our George" Entertains New York World
Correspondent.
| Mr. George A. Quimby, sour George
has been interviewed again, this time by a
| New York World correspondent. A short
time ago Mrs Sibyl Wilbur O'Brien came
to Belfast in quest of the P. P Quimby
manuscripts, of which the son, George A.
| Quimby, is the custodian She did not get
them, and in an article written for and pub
| lished in the magazine Human Life she por-
| trayed Mr.. Quimby in such manner that
| those who had known him all his life found
| it impossible to recognize him. In making
some extracts from the article we purposely
omitted the personal reflections on "Our
George" thinking he would deal with them
i'll due time in his own inimitable way. This
he has done, as will appear farther on. The
World correspondent says: George A.
Quimby has openly declared that the wri-
tings of his father furnish conclusive proof
that Mrs Eddy appropriated the science of
mental healing and used it as the foulda-
ton and active principle of her new creed -
Mr. Quimby displayed to the World CORE
spondent the documents in his keeping, and
of letters from Mrs Eddy he says: "Through-
. out the correspondence two facts are brought
out and emphasized by frequent reiterations
namely, that Phineas p. Quimby was re-
vered by the writer as the diScoverer and
teacher of mental healing, and that the
writer's avowed purpose was 10 spend her
life in spreading the Quimby science" Of
other documents in Mr.. Quimby's posses
sion, of which no detailed mention can be
made at tais time, it is said that they twill
create a widespread sensation" Mr.. Quimby
has frequently declared that he would not
make these documents public until after
Mrs. Eddy's death, but the World CORE
spondent says that Hon. ". E. Chandler
and his legal associates representing the
relatives of Mary Baker G. Eddy in their
suit to obtain an accounting of her estate
have received definite assurances that Mr..
Quimby will not hesitate to tell all he knows
and produce his invaluable documentary
evidence if called as witness and compel
led to testify by process of law The letter
from Mr.. Quimby which appears in the
World was written, not for the World, but
to Mr.. E. c. Bowler of Bethel, editor and
publisher of the Bethel News and Rumford
Citizen, after reading an editorial in the
latter paper ON the Human Life article.
The letter follows:
have received a copy of the Rumford
Citizen containing criticism on the inter-
view Of Mrs. Sibyl Wilbur O'Bren with me,
published in Human Lie, and it is so near
! the truth that l nearly tainted when | read
it. Perhaps in your career you have had
your picture taken where the artist had
touched it up here, toned it down there, ad-
ded little color, rubbed out a wrinkle or
two and otherwise changed the likeness till,
while it is you, you could scarcely recognize
it. Well, that is the way SibyPs pen picture
of me struck me when l read what she said
about me.
Perhaps l get upon my hind legs and
storm and roar and pound the furniture
when | have lady callers, but | didn't know
it. If | were our honored President, could
say "she-,' But as | am not the Presi-
dent, and there is less than even chance
that | ever will be, | will not say the other
word, nor even hint Of what mean.
Sibyl, by inference, would give the i'm
preston that during our interview
I'VE fought and fit and scratched and bit,
And wallowed in the mud;
Until the ground Tor miles around
Was covered with our blood
But we didn't.
She lays considerable stress on the fact
that when | went to Portland | was only
nineteen years old SO | was, but | was
twenty-five when ] saw Mrs. Eddy. | am
free to confess that a young man of twenty
two does not know much, and sometimes
that popularity sticks to him the older he
grows; and ! have known isolated cases
when it worked the same with woman.
However, | was old enough to pay tax,
vote, stand the draft and put a substitute i'll
the army. l was old enough to wear long
pants. l was old enough so that when l
hold of my hand. / was old enough to 60
all over Portland alone and sometimes faith
er would let me go down to the pOSt-ottice
alone in the evening, if it were not too dark.
Anyhow, l was old enough and knew
enough and have not forgotten yet that
father composed the manuscripts | have in
my possession, and that most of them were
written prior to Mrs. Eddy meeting him,
and if the fair, or rather the unfair, Sibyl
Can make herself or anybody else believe
that ! do not possess them, after having
seen them herself, why shall have to bear
the cross as best can and go down to the
grave with the knowledge that father did
not write the manuscripts which l know he
did write, because [ saw him do it, for
Sibyl says he didn't, and, of course, she
ought to know because she knows nothing
| about it anyhow! The above statement is
what is called logic and it is useless to butt
F, your head against logic
The writings possess now belong to me.
| They have either been in the possession of
my father or myself since some years be-
fore Mrs Eddy ever saw father; therefore
find ii awfully ha1dito make myself really
believe that they are the manuscripts Mrs.
Eddy left with him, when, as matter of
| fact, she never left any, or that she gave
him the ideas contained in the manuscripts
several years before they ever saw each
| other, or that she ever had such ideas.
| l have never paraded these writings be-
| fore the public. l have elected, so far, not
| to publish them. l have allowed parties to
| examine them under certain restrictions, as
| | have perfect right to do. l allowed
Siby the same privilege, and she is the first
| person in forty years to doubt their au-
| thenticity, and she only doubted them with
her pen, for she knew they were just what
told her they were, and that they were au-
| thentic, when she made her pen say they
| were not !; and I'll bet that her pen turned
red in the face when it expressed that
| doubt
In the Citizens article, as an excuse for
my not showing the original drafts of
| fathers writings, it says zone can readily
understand that the elder Quimby was quite
illiterate, and is in great contrast to his son,
who is an educated and refined man."
| Now, like to have have all that is COM
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