New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-05

under one of the two directions either OF
this world of opinions or OF God or o.
science, and his happiness or misery is the
result of his wisdom"
Praised Quimby, Then Denied Him.
Mrs. Patterson returned TO her home re-
covered from the trouble that had afflicted
her for years and extolled Quinby at All
times and in all places. She attributed her
cure TO him and wrote articles for the
newspapers proclaiming her faith IN hlm'
and wrote letters to him in the same tone
It was not until twenty years later, when
she had had to deny him or give Up her
own claims, that she wrote as follows;
1T has always been my misfortune to
think people bigger and better than they
really are. I denounced it Quinn
bys method after few of my first stu
dents rubbed the heads Of their patients
and the immortality Of one student opened
my eyes to the horrors possible in animal
magnetism. / discovered the science Of
mind healing, and that was enough"
Mrs. Tilton heard so much from her sis
ter Of Quimby that she went TO Portland
TO try TO find out what the truth was. She
came back and said that the whole bust
ness cant and bosh.
member Of the army medical staff and had
been captured and sent to Libby prison
When Mrs. Patterson found herself able to
travel after her treatment by Quiulby she
went 10 Washington and succeeded in Sc
curing the exchange OF her husband Soon
afterward they went TO live In Lynn. Mass.
and here Mrs. Patterson proceeded with
the work of grating her own philosophy
and Quimby's and bringing out Christian
Science. And here she experienced the
| fall in Lynn
This was an accident that happened to
her by slipping on the ice Her spine
seemed 10 have been injured and the dec
tors gave Up hope for her life. But on the
third day she walked down the stairs and
astonished those who had assembled to
mourn her approaching death by appearing
among them.
Her Doctor Claimed the Credit.
DR.. Alvin NJ Cushing who attended her.
since gave q minute account OF his treat
ment Of Mrs. Patterson. and ascribed her
cure TO his ministrations. but she denied
his claims and held that she was cured by
her principles of faith. which she afterward
developed into Christian Science. This was
in 1866. and she arterward wrote of the oc-
currence:
'Tn the year 1866 discovered the Christ
Science, or divine laws OF life, and named
it Christian Science
But 1t was not until nine years later
that she brought out the first edition Of her
book Science and Health though she
rad been teaching the cult for several
years.
Two weeks after the fall she acknovf-
edged her debt TO Quimby in letter TO &
former patient of Quimby asking for help.
Quimby was then dead In the letter she
described her accident and said:
II confess I am frightened, and out OF
that nervous heat nv friends are forming
in spite of me the terrible spinal affection
from which 1 have suffered so long and
SO hopaIessiy. New, can't you help me?
I believe you can I think I could help
another in the same condition"
The former patient of the Portland mes
merist replied that he did not know how
Qutmby performed his cures and ne Doubt
ed If any one did He distinctly refused 10
revive Qutmbyism. When this man later
brought her letters OF eulogy OF DUMMY
forward as proof that she was orlv follow
ing in the footsteps Of the mesmerist. she
replied through The Christian Science
Journal
1T was after the death az Mr. o,,i-,b,-
and when 1 was apparently at the door of
death, that I made the discovery or Tho
Principle OF Divine Science After that II
took ten years Of hard work before +bs
first edition of Science and Health zz-ss
produced, in 1sz5.''
Gets Divorce and s4oo aIi,,,,,,