The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian SciencePeabody, Frederick William
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The Religio-Medical Masquerade: A Complete Exposure of Christian Science
Peabody, Frederick William
Christian Science -- Controversial literature
It appears that in 1867, Mrs. Eddy, then Mrs. Patterson, went to
Stoughton to live. She had separated from her second husband,
Daniel Patterson, and not having then married her third husband,
Eddy, called herself, and was known by the name of her first
husband, Mary M. Glover.
Mrs. Glover first lived at Stoughton with one Hiram Crafts, and
taught Crafts from manuscript a system of mental healing she told
Crafts she had learned from Dr. P. P. Quimby. After learning it,
Crafts undertook to practise it and had announcements printed and
circulated declaring his system to have been the discovery of Dr.
Quimby.
But Mrs. Glover and Mrs. Crafts did not seem to find one
another’s society especially enjoyable, and for a time, Mrs.
Crafts left Mrs. Glover in possession. In 1868, upon the
invitation of Mrs. Sally Wentworth, Mrs. Glover moved to the
Wentworths’ house at Stoughton, where she continued to live until
1870.
Mrs. Eddy’s writings will be searched in vain for any reference
to Mrs. Wentworth, or to the fact that she spent about three
years in the Wentworths’ house at Stoughton; but, in
characteristic fashion, she hides the facts under this obscure
and oracular utterance:
“I then (1866), withdrew from society, about three years, to
ponder my mission, to search the Scriptures, to find the
Science of Mind that should take the things of God and show
them to the creature, and reveal the great Curative Principle,
God.”
Mrs. Wentworth invited Mrs. Glover to live with her and teach her
the Quimby science of mind healing, and that is what Mrs. Glover
did during the three years she was a member of Mrs. Wentworth’s
family. She “pondered her mission,” etc., by avowedly teaching
Dr. Quimby’s alleged science of mind healing, and she gave Mrs.
Wentworth a copy of her, Mrs. Glover’s, manuscript copy of
Quimby’s writings. This copy of Mrs. Eddy’s copy of what she then
said were Quimby’s writings, in Mrs. Wentworth’s handwriting and
containing corrections and interlineations in the handwriting of
Mrs. Glover-Eddy, is the manuscript now in the possession of Mrs.
Wentworth’s son, Horace T. Wentworth of Stoughton, Mass.
During Mrs. Glover’s sojourn at Mrs. Wentworth’s, the household
consisted, besides Mrs. Wentworth and her guest, of her husband,
Mr. Alanson C. Wentworth, and their two children, Lucy and
Charles O. Wentworth. Mr. and Mrs. Wentworth died in 1882, but
Lucy and Charles O. and Horace T. Wentworth are still living, and
they, with their cousin, Mrs. Catherine I. Clapp, who was much at
their house during Mrs. Glover’s visit, have stated the facts
under oath and in such a manner that they _must_ be believed.
Lucy Wentworth, now Mrs. Arthur L. Holmes, was about seventeen
years of age when Mrs. Glover left her mother’s house. Mrs.
Holmes, who still lives at Stoughton, says that she well
remembers Mrs. Glover’s visit, and that she was teaching her
mother a system of mental healing she said she had learned from
Dr. Quimby.
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