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having the same disease OF serious
character tho cheerful and hopeful per-
son will have a much greater chance
Of recovery that the person who is
of '1ow spirits" and who, as the say
ing is. gives up"
Geological phenomena with certain
Biblical truths Mrs Eddy formulated
a system Of religious belief which
pertained TO the so-called ills of both
the bodily and the spiritual natures of
man. In effect the Christian Science
church represents what TO other re-
Iigious scots would be a combination
of the church and the hospital, al
though Mrs. Eddy held that what most
people regard as physical disease was
practically a state of mind.
our readers in general may obtain
a more adequate idea Of what her sys-
TEN of religion was and how 1t orig
mated If we quote from sketch of
writings. In his book on Christian
Science" Rev. Lyman p. Powell SAYS:
when Mrs Eddy, then Mrs. Patter-
son. was helped up tho stairs IN oc-
tober. 1862, to Or. Quimby's office, she
was "a frail shadow OF q woman
Tho beauty OF hcr early woinonho I'd
was gone. Pale. enaclatcd. shabby,
tho stamp Of poverty ns we'll - illness
on her face and form. her FIRST request
of Quinby was to assist her to secure
an inexpensive boarding place. Three
weeks later she left him. a we'll WON
an.--well in body and in mind. quinn
by had cured her OF her nervous
trouble, but that was tho least that he
the idea which was to dominate her
whole life, the rock on which she was
by and by to build her church. against
which she had been wont ever since
| stoutly to assert the gates of hell
shall not prevail"
Mrs. Patterson was an ardent adj
mirer Of Dr. DUMMY at that period
and gave him the utmost credit for
what he had done for her. How she
came to regard him IN later life, how
ever. appears from Sihyl Wilbur's
treatment of Quimbv in the official
Life" She has written:
"Quimhy has been delineated that
he may have his due-Qumby. the il
literatc mcsmerst. Quimby. the blum
derinF and stumbling reasoner, quinn
by, the kindly. sympathetic healer
above all, Qnimhy the unconscious
hvpnotizer Ignorance will cover al
his errors, good intentions all his &C
complishments. He would never hav
claimed to have originated anythini
Rad he known all there was to b.
known Of Mesmer. Qumbyism wa
but an excrescencc on the natura
growth Of mental suggestion fror
. byism is not embryonic Christia
science: it is merely mesmerism gon
, astray.
( When Mary Baker entered Nj
( Quimby's office he sat down besid
} her. as was his custom with his pa
tients. to get into the sympatheti
and clairvoyant relation with her ma
ing fxedly into her eyes, he told hel
, as he had told others, that she wa
held in bondage by the opinions o
I her family and physicians. that he
animal spirit was rejecting it's grie
upon her body and calling it spina
disease. He then wet his hands in
basin of water and violently ruhbc
, her head, declaring that in that man
! ner he impaired healthy electricity
] Gradually he wrought the spell c
hypnot!sm and under that suggesto
/ she let go the burden of pain Just a
! she would have done had morphin
, been administered The relief was n
a doubt tremendous. Her gratitud
certainly was unboundod. She wa
? set free from the excguciatinr pain ,
years. Quimby himself was amaze
a at her sudden healing; no less wa
o he amazed at the Interpretation sh
I immedia tely placed upon it, that
! had been accomplished by Quimby
. :nediatorship between herself an
q God.
\ She had gone to Quimly prepared
find him saint who healed by Writ
y Of his rel g!ous wisdom, and as SOC
as she met him she completed h'
u mental picture endowing him wit
q her own faith. Plus the hypnoti
+ had almost nothing to do, Her felt
returned upon her, flooding her vii
radiance, healing her Of her pain.
In later years Mrs. Eddy dated h
" discovery OF Christian science, not
/ her cure by Quimby, but to her e
- perience In Lynn In 1866, when 81
u slipped and fell On an Icy sidewal
! stefan mmoncd was DR. a. NJ Gus
~ Ing, later a wellknown practition(
| a, ivnfr hoc n Stat, I,