In her letter to the Boston _Post_ Mrs. Eddy made some other interesting assertions. She said:[15] "We never were a student of Dr. Quimby. Dr. Quimby never had students to our knowledge. He was somewhat of a remarkable healer, and at the time we knew him he was known as a mesmerist. We were one of his patients." What an astonishing look these statements by Mrs. Eddy in 1883 have, when compared with the statements of Mrs. Mary M. Patterson from 1862 to 1866. Let us see.-- _Statement of 1883._ "At the time we knew him [Dr. Quimby], he was known as a mesmerist." _Statement of 1866._ "Dr. Quimby healed with the truth that Christ taught, in contradistinction to all Isms." "Rest should reward him who hath made us whole, _seeking, tho' tremblers, where his footsteps trod_." On March 7th, 1883, Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy made, in the Boston Post. _This Statement._ "We had laid the foundation of mental healing long before we ever saw Dr. Quimby.... We made our first experiments in mental healing about 1853, when we were convinced that mind had a science which, if understood, would heal all diseases." In October, 1862, the same lady, through the Portland _Courier_, made _This Statement._ "I can see, _dimly at first and as trees walking_, the great principle which underlies Dr. Quimby's faith and works; and just in proportion to my right perception of truth is my recovery. This truth, which he opposes to _the error of giving intelligence to matter_, changes the currents of the system. The truth which he establishes in the patient cures him. This is a science capable of demonstration to those who reason upon the process." Then, in the Portland _Advertiser_, came Mrs. Eddy's extraordinary comparison of Dr. Quimby's words and deeds with those of Christ, and _This Statement._ "P. P. Quimby rolls away the stone from the sepulcher of error, and health is the resurrection." On the publication of Julius A. Dresser's _True History of Mental Science_--to which reference has been made in our previous chapter--Mrs. Eddy was greatly exercised over it. In her _Christian Science Journal_ for June, 1887, she devoted the leading article, under her own name, to the Dresser pamphlet. This little thing was a calm statement of facts, proved as they were given. From the facts, Dr. Quimby's theory was drawn, and Mr. Dresser frankly recounted what the general reader would consider Dr. Quimby's foibles and prejudices, as well as his doctrines and gifts. The pamphlet contained Mrs. Mary M. Patterson's opinion of Dr. Quimby in 1862, and her poem of 1866. It agreed with what was then the substance of her own assertions, by summarizing Dr. Quimby "as the first person of this age who penetrated the depths of truth so far as to discover and bring forth a true science of life, and openly apply it to the healing of the sick."