The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-04-11
0INBY MANUSCRIPTS,

|af 0INBY MANUSCRIPTS,
April contained chapter
81. -qY of the Real Life of
-.uyi Wilbur and is mainly
sr visit to Belfast and an
ar. George A, Quimby. The
-.s visit was to inspect the
.l.. pts Of which she says:
.... manuscripts have been
'... uNeyer, written about and
',. u0ie3 from. A book has
.'@.-. pa the philosophy of P. P.
!. aud uauy other books have been
!, ... lug 10 be deductions and en-
W. uuimbyism. The history of
4 ,rr.- n the United States pro-
~. aat. back to the Quimby manu-
7. and Ugimby is declared by certain
=, br ,u- first man in this country to
H. beei that mind had power over
s. ia has this idea spread that
smo, impossible today to speak of
Tid1 and Christian Science without
,.56n muediately being asked: "Bnt
r al rom a man named Quimby,
sg5t y
rosr George" whose portrait ap-
.a connection with the text she says:
ms A. Q4mby, the son of Phineas P.
SJ. j, living today in Belfast, Me. He
Tq.5-lkea and much respected citizen
Nj town VI several thousand inhab-
/ lie was a clothing manufacturer
/, Ro3 au insurance agent; he has a
nine home, and a cultivated family.
Ti- !, il 3e.ightful hostess, his daugh-
M il aa.s.e. MIR. Quimby writes for
ngers over the pen-name, "Our
\ ana IN frequent demand as an
Jl1ll ,3raker Recently, he visited
Yr5, where he was the principal
p a. ll- Maine Association dinner,
b, sp--,h, printed in full in the Bel
.a2ar s, GATES him with Lyman j.
a5al Kate Cpson Clarke. His speech
r H.. Wit and shows a mind alive
l.g u,--e,tS.
ay,.ac ce Of the interview may be
H4iN words. Mr.. Quimby was
his of1ice and was shown some
ag,r N III were, "copies of copies,"
hand Ny ing of Mr., Quimby's mother
B= '- Misses Ware. He declined
7 3D. Jinal manuscripts and dur
j. -HrU-W declared his determina-
MDWiut his fathers writings dur
s8--Mr Of Mrs. Eddy" Mr.. Qaimby
,i- Ills father was mesmerist.
.a.l-- -an his work as mesmer-
,al NJ. Quimby. "But before his
jy H.-yed and taught that. disease
arl I'd he mind and could be ex-
ilon The body through the mind"
lMmjaipulate his patients ?"
s. bug Oh must remember that in
Ga. l world was not familiar as it
81 8tNtAe Idea of mental suggestion.
,lu MAipulate his patients to show
.eWs ap.ng something for them"
d go- -lther get any of his ideas
tlg H ,erS or teachers ?"
,l7 d'1 not. Everything he taught
rgmW N;th him."
QlmHs had already stated that his
E-ai b. works of ancient philoso-
Ard be also said his father got his
IM-SueiISm from a Frenchman nam
}sG who visited Maine in the forties.
-}lW 'tber ever know man by the
of Ivhn BOYee DodS," ! asked Mr..
81 man Of that name visited Belfast.
Ok iather's hypnotic subject, Lucian
laf, ami used him in his exhibitions" I"
!9ti iather converse with Dods,
WITH him, or attend his lectures ?"
may have talked with him and attend
y7etufes. But he never studied with
ale eYer read his book ?"
.N0baJly did,"
Writer IN Human Life continues:
6aow The true Quimby the writer Wis
Sil0lS old citizens of Belfast and ask
'l 10 relate what they could remember
4 Qllmby and his practice. He is
4OTied there only as a meSmerist.
esSTlaf Of deeds, George McCrillis, a
He seventy years old, remembers P.
uJ} as wildly as though he had talk
y biu the day before. He illustrated
WI Ter Low i. P. Quimby treated his
.S lie would sit down in front of
u iooa on Squarely in the eye," said
ATI4lls, And he had a piercing
ire clear eye. Then he would
passes across your forehead and down
VIZ, ,lOg aeFs and the length of your arms,
y 4 Ills hands after every pass made.
lgF body would tingle with his cleo
/. nu. he never quite put me to sleep,
n.y. ~, mad too strong a will. He was a
Ida aud fine citizen, but entirely
S 5sl uI In his healing experiments"
Ia isn .louSton, the former president of
slaSl savings Bank and a man of vari.
t@ntSS interests, remembers P. P.
y! very well. He said he had always
liI spoken of as mesmerist and
I w., decidedly say that Quimby had no
~, '@ method in his healing. sHe was
y ,sPIsImenter and speculator and a
a. a., Gealer," declared Mr.. Houston.
,yv'u ,o,. 'hfluence man to come in from
NJ. .Ss' Dy liking his eye on him."
" y are many other old residents of
Ut ~ WHO unequivocally state that Quinn
'agV" ,at Il as a mesmeriSt and hypnotist
Ito4o .9 account of Quimby and his
us ~, mas been given by Charles C.
n, ~ d New York, who lived for years
Ias'' Me. He states that one day
.r, nv was quite a lad professional
~ ~ saye an exhibition at the public
u belfast which proved a failure be-
%lhe ihe person in the audience per-
.le hypnotic influence. The .hyp-
n '1'ited whomsoever it might be to
n rat a1u meet him after the service and
ogu ei'l 10 be Park Quimby, as Mr.. Sar-
a'Ieo ',.o MN. Mr.. Quimby was told by
,P5G9tlst l5i that he (Quimby) possessed
l,.GIlnary mesmeric powers and that if
TTSGp7d them, he could become a great
yi,2 I2ulmby, according to Mr.. Sargent,
''.a I y. proceeded to do so and became
Ab5own in the community as a hyp-
,,th eople feared his power which he
; ,@'ntl aa., freely and whenever anyone
an aVted queerly on the street it was a
0u 0a saying that Park Quimby was
S On him. Mr.. Sargent says he
heard lizard @uimby connect God in any
sn sana'SoeVer S with his cures, and tells Of
an a1 experience with Quimby. When
Cd 81 tlwelve years old he had been
" u,C Ior several days with an eruption
ntt' natttCE' which medicines did not heal.
S..ief nran.f sent him to Quimby, who was
4 4 =; SSt;Ilclng mesmerism. Quimby ex-
an, u,l' and and told him emphaIically that
N NV nave a sore neck but instead il
,p Iopn, 'front.' tooth which panied him.
AT p1s Y Sargent strongly denied, insist
AT Al ,hs his teeth had never troubled him,
bia ae pain was in his neck. The boy
hin, ,S point SO persistently that finally
dn noy 10y told him to 20 home, that he
nsd s dilo,shlng ON, for him. He subsequently