Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-05

spoke with enthusiasm Of the new method
of healing. DR.. Quimby died in 1855. and
| Mrs. Glover. who had become so ar
| IDENTIFY attached to his methods, appears
| to have become possessed of some Of his
essays or treatises on his art.
| About this time Mrs. Glover fell on an
| icy pavement. She was living at Swamp
| scott, Mass. suburb Of Lynn. She
| sent for DR.. A. NJ. Cushing then Of
| Lynn. but later Of Springfield. and sub
| mitted herself to his care DR. Gushing
said he gave his patient morphine to
soothe her, and he administered to her
for twenty-four hours. The doctor said
that his patient was suffering from nerv
Gus shock and was at no time in any
| serious danger.
Dawn Of Christian Science.
| It was during this illness, Mrs. Eddy
asserted, that the idea of Christian
Science. or healing by the mind and by
faith. first came to her.
| Soon after this Mrs Glover went to
| live with a farmer in Stoughton. To the
farmer. Hiram Crafts. she taught sys-
| which at the time she Is said to have
acknowledged came to her from DR..
| Quimby. Subsequently she went to live
| as pensioner with Mrs. Sally Went
worth. and remained there for three
years.
| AS soon as Crafts was made acquainted
with the method of mental healing it
appears that he at once started In practice
| as q healer. While she resided with Mrs
Wentworth, 1t is said, Mrs Glover taught
her DR.. Quimby's science and permitted
| her to copy some of DIR. Quimby's manu-
scripts. with her own interlineations and
corrections. This manuscript is said now
to be in possession Of Horace T. Went
worth Of Stoughton. a son Of the late
Mrs. Wentworth.
| With two followers of DIR. Quimby
A.
to have returned to Lynn, and there gath
cred around her small circle of fol-
| lowers. She lived in various boarding
houses in the town, and in 1872 began the
compilation of her famous book, Science
and HEALTH" which now has grown to
enormous proportions, a late edition con-
tanning almost 100000 words.
A small circle, eight in number, 1t Is
said, agreed to pay weekly a sum ranging
from 50 cents to S. and the entire amount
subscribed was SO week. Out of this
amount hall was hired and an organ
procured. According to the agreement,
Mrs. Glover was to receive weekly IS as
her. salary for preaching each Sunday. The
meetings did not attract much attention
and after the sixth meeting was held. It
| is said, Mrs. Glover declined to carry on
the work. There was $40 in the treasury
and this, 1t is said, Mr.. Spofrord handed
| to the preacher.
Not long after this, Asa Gilbert Eddy
| was sent to Mrs. Glover by the Godfreys
Of Chelsea. and soon he became disciple.
He had not been WELL and at the sugges-
ton Of his friends sought Mrs. Glover for
the mental treatment. She Is said to have
cured him. and at her suggestion he en-
| tered class she was forming. AS a re-
! suit. Mr.. Eddy became a healer and in a
| little time there arose some jealousy
among some of her disciples over bis sue
| cess. He and Mrs. Glover We're married
New Year day. 1877, by Unitarian min
lister.
| Tho tro,,h,o botvoon Ar Ed5,, ora Ar
SpOfford, both disciples Of Mrs. Eddy, be-
came so warm that Mr. Eddy was charged
with conspiracy to murder Nothing came
of the charge and Mr.. Eddy. who is said
to have been the assistant to a spirit
medium. was freed
In 1915 the first edition of Science and
Health" appeared. few years ago. when
there was considerable attention being
was announced by Livingston Wright
that the real author of the book, as it
later appeared. was the late Rev. J..
Henry Wiggin. who revised and rewrote
the manuscript which was brought to
him by man who called himself Calvin
A. Frye. This was in 1885, Mr.. Wright
said that the caller upon Mr.. Wiggin
said he represented woman who wished
to have q manuscript revised. In a
Ideath 1t was asserted that the latter found
much that was contradictory in the
manuscript. and that in addition to re-
vising these faults, and putting them in
agreement. he added chapter on Way
side Hints"
Il In 1908 Mark Twain also attacked the
authorship OF Science and HEALTH" and
insisted that the author of the first edi-
ton could not have written the latest
edition.
Death Reported Four Years Ago.
While the controversy was raging on
: the topic Of the authorship Of the book in
. the summer Of 1906, there suddenly ap-
peared q statement in the New York
, World to the effect that Mrs. Eddy was
dying. and that the figure that daily took
, her rides in a carriage from the Eddy
house in Concord. N. H.. really was not
} Mrs. Eddy at all. but Mrs. Pamela
Leonard. attired to represent the founder
statement was repeatedly made and de-
MED. and finally an audience was arrang-
ed for several reporters Of Boston news
papers to see Mrs. Eddy. The audience
. was arranged with much mystery, and
} the visitors were only allowed to put
three questions to Mrs. Eddy. who q
s represented as being .'attired as mar
: chsoness." and with having her cheeks
o ported to be very weak. and one of the
: visitors asserted that she appeared to
II During the period between 1875 and
Roadway. In the latter year the SO
. called Mother Church. in Boston. was
erected at a cost Of 100000 on ground
: said to be worth $4,000, which was
e given for the purpose by Mrs. Eddy her.
self Branches Of this Mother Church
!. rapidly sprung up in many parts of the
a country. all of the congregations beins
| tributary to the Boston church. until a,
2 the present time the estimated numbel
Of followers in this country is. nearl,
. 40 OCO