The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1911-03-17
r,.. January 2, 1911
Harlowton, Montana.
Nv door CIV.

My dear Sir:
VIII you kindly give space to brie
correction of misstatements made r.
garding the life of Mary Baker in vou
valued paper of December 16. 1910.
,. Mrs. Eddy's discovery of Christia
Sc.ence was aeassssiic..ld bv remark
able recovery from an injury receiv
ed by fall on the ice. The effect
OF this injury were said to be bevon,
the power of medicine to heal. In he
extremity Mrs. Eddy thought of tn,
healing which had been accomplisheo
oy Jesus and his disciples. Thereupor
she asked for her Bible and opened
TO passage of scripture, after the
reading. OF which she found herself
instantly healed. The same words OF
truth spoken by Jesus which healed
the man, healed Mrs. Eddy.
Previous to this accident and this in
Simultaneous healing by the words of
Jesus, Mrs. Eddy had been STUDYING
the action of the human mind in the
study of homeopathy when she had
given her. patients bread pills and dis.
covered that they were cured thereby
IL was the human mind which had eff
iected a cure in these instances. There
lore, from her miraculous healing she
came to the conclusion that it was
cure through mind, not human mind,
out the influence of the infinite Spirit
which he exercised over his patients- On
account of Mrs. Eddy's strong religious
nature she endeavored to turn Mr.
Qulmby's attention to the fact that ali
power comes from God. He had neve,
attributed this mesmeric power to God
mr.. Qulmby was a kind and pbilan
throplc but not religious man. He
was unlearned and taught no philos
oPhy His writings, at best, consisted
OF few incoherent scribblings which |
Mrs Eddy, in her grateful enthusiasm
tried 10 arrange in systematic man
ner. Mrs. Eddy was always generous
and unselfish in her nature and some
times endowed those she admired with
more virtue than they possessed. This
was the case with Mr.. Quimby. She
was grateful for her healing, which was
OF short duration and which was never
fuily affected until after the healing
referred to in the first part of this ar
ticle.
lie writer had a personal interview
some years past with one of Mr.
sulmbys patients, who was helpless
Eddy's writings. The following appear
or divine Mind on the human mind
She saw that the divine Mind, reflected
~ Jesus, and reflected through the
words in this scriptural passage, were
Is potent to heal in her time as they
we're in the time of the Master. Jesus !
oresaw the adaptability of the Truth
IS q presented, in his teaching, to al +
lges and under all conditions wher
e SAID, Heaven and earth shall pass
way, but my words shall not pass
way" Luke, 21:33.
Mrs. Eddy's healing was the result y
t the operation of law which she I
that time did not comprehend. Her
nalytical mind, however, taught her "
hat there must be Principle behind
er healing, and she set to work to dis
over this Principle. The Bible was her .
MY text book, and for three years she
llgently searched the Scriptures, and Il
fter nine years of labor, she published Il
he text book of her iscovery-Science /
I'D Health, with Key to the Scriptures |
er discovery she named Christian II
,ience. h
The teachings of Christian Science IL
e Numerically opposed to those of ls
We therefore fail to see lie
wv his teaching could have infuenc- tic
her in the writing of Science and "a
ealth. Mr.. Quimby was a mesmerist;
never claimed any supernatural ru
wer from God, and did not pretend to te
lderstand the mesmeric Influence sli
valid, and from whom it was learned Tn
at Mr. Quimby taught no philosophy lie
r science. mt
Sibyl Wilbur made thorough inves- Jul
,atlOn of the much -talked-of "Quimby IN
for which the claim was th
lde that they were the basis of Mrs
in Human Life, April, 1907. We be.
We that Miss Wilbur's brief statement de-
II erase any doubt as to Mrs. Eddv's Ga
htful claim. Ing
The author made the journey in MI
J depth of winter to the little town ne.
Belfast, Maine, off the main line of firs
vel and somewhat difficult of access, Of
see, as l supposed, the Quimby man. pre-
'ripts. Arriving there the custodian tia
the manuscripts, George A. Quimby, nm
to me: era
If all the people who have come to act
me in the past twenty years about ma
se manuscripts of my father We're cou
les and were laid head and tail to- stit
her they would stretch from here to is
ntana. If all the letters that have les
n written to me on the subject were ests
cad out they would make a plaster eou
elegant. When the music is played loca
t would cover the country" fore
When I asked Mr.. Quimby for rer- linn
sion to see these much h-talked-of dict
nuscripts, he took from a drawer in prii
desk copybook such as school chill of
n use to write essays in. 1t was in wit
,ood state of preservation, not yell pres
with age, and was written in from L
er to cover in neat copyists's hanI coul
re were no erasures, or interlinea- trac
IS, no breaks for paragraphs and the
7 few headings. There were dates at und
end of the articles, of which there ira
cared to be two or three different ing,
J in the book. The dates were 1851 or ]
1868. be
. this your fathers handwriting?" ny
sked Mr.. Quimby.
t is not; that is my mothers, l It
eve, and here is one in the handwrit- offic