The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-14

his own. but they commingied
error with truth and were not Science.
On his rare humanity and sympathy
one could write a sonnet
1t seems perfectly clear That What
Mrs. Eddy has always said ABOUT
Phineas p. Quimby and what she reit-
crates today is exactly what other OLD
patients say about him-eXcepI Iiid'
she gives him much greater apprecla-
tion-and what his local reputation tes-
titles to across the years. Let me
manuscripts be printed il there are any
authentic ones to print, and let the
world judge when it has the two DOCKS
side by side, who is the author OF
Christian Science. But If, as every
surrounding circumstance seems 10 m
dicate, there are no manuscripts lett
by Phineas p. Quimby, let this hoary
scandal crumble into the nothinSness
from which it was evoked, and let the
public see that the reputation OF Mary
Baker Eddy stands clear of reproach
This is but common justice which the
world owes a great woman.
It seems desirable. before leaving the
claims of Quimbyism, to analyZe the
influences which have been, brought to
bear upon George A Quimby to induce
him for the past twenty-five years TO
maintain that his father was the orig
inator of Christian Science without
the religious trolley
When George A. Quimby first saw
Mrs. Eddy, then Mrs. Patterson. he was
a boy of nineteen, not interested in
philosophy or religion, but attached TO
his father for the sole purpose of look
ing after his business. His father was
generous and uubusinesslike and kept
no track of charges or accounts. Young
Quimby saw nothing in the healing art
if it was not good business, and doubt
less when he witnessed the advent of
Mrs. Patterson as a new patient he
must have taken instant alarm, for
what made him fear. for his fathers
thunder" except the superior mental
ability of this patient over all the 9TH
ers that had come to DR.. Quimby.
Mr. QuimbyS first alarm came then
as a lad of nineteen who was guarding
his fathers business. He did not want
to see him superseded by a woman.
Later Julius A. Dresser and Anneita
Gertrude Dresser, by the success of
Science and HEALTH" decided to
write a book on mental science. Ed
ward ]. Arens, an early student of Mrs.
Eddy. had tried to issue similar book,
but had been enjoined. The history of
this case will be given later The Dress
ers and Arens stirred up Mr. Quimby.
Later came a lawyer who some years
previous had defended a rebellious stu
dent of Mrs. Eddy's- This lawyer had
a pamphlet which he wanted TO bolster
up with the Quimby writings. Still
later, DIR. Minot J. Savage. who had be-
gun to interest himself i'm matters of
psychical research, appealed to Quinn
by to let him use the manuscripts. And
in succeeding episodes this man has
been appealed to again and again to
make himself a party to an attack on
the author Of Science and Health" to
give color to the statements In penny
dreadfuls or deliberately serious liter
airy undertakings.
If there is any truth in mental sug-
gestiOn, in hyDnOtism or the science of
what wonder that George
A. Quimby has come to believe that
behind the iron doors of his safe lies a
treasure in some yellowed scraps of
paper, upon which his father wrote his
random thoughts. If Mrs. Eddys
a greement to publish these papers at
profits did not bring them forth; if the
appeal of so eminent a man as DIR.
Savage, in the name of justice and
the worlds record of historic thought
did not bring them forth; if at this
moment when he is the focus of con-
centrated public attention as the arbi-
TRAITOR in a sense. of a serious intellec-
tual problem in the history of modern
religious movement, he will not pro-
duce evidence worthy of the name,
what must be thought of his conten-
ton or his claims in his fathers name?