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 wasn’t safe for anybody to say anything to me against Mrs.
Glover,’ says Mrs. Holmes. ‘She spent all her time teaching my
mother her new science. I was around her constantly, would
rather be with her than with any one else, and I often used to
hear her say, “I learned this from Dr. Quimby.” It is one of
the distinct recollections of my childhood.’”
Charles O. Wentworth, now of Avon, Mass., says he, too, well
remembers Mrs. Eddy’s visit during the years 1868, 1869 and 1870,
and that he many times heard her say she had learned her mental
science from Dr. Quimby. He says she avowed it openly, and always
spoke of it as Dr. Quimby’s system.
Horace T. Wentworth, who was married and so not living at home
with his parents, but who was often at their house, adds his
positive testimony. He says:
“Never at any time during the years she was at our house, from
1868 to 1870, did Mrs. Glover give the slightest hint that any
one other than Dr. Quimby had had any share in the origin of
the system of mental healing she was teaching my mother. It
could not then have entered her mind to claim it for herself.
That was an afterthought. I heard Mrs. Glover over and over
again say she got it all from Quimby.”
Mrs. Clapp’s statement is even more specific than the others. She
is own cousin to the Wentworths and frequented their house at the
time Mrs. Glover was visiting them, and knew that Mrs. Glover was
teaching Mrs. Wentworth the Quimby system.
When Mrs. Clapp was recently asked if she had ever heard Mrs.
Glover-Eddy say that she learned her system from Dr. Quimby, she
replied:
“Yes, and I am not likely to forget it. It is fixed in my
memory by a very reprehensible proceeding of my own. You see,
Mrs. Glover used to say this to everybody who came in. She
wasn’t content with mentioning once or twice that she had
learned this from Dr. Quimby, she repeated it so often that we
girls got deadly tired of hearing it.
“Now Mrs. Glover not only said it to the point of wearying us,
but she had a peculiar way of saying it, and I am ashamed to
say that I used to mock her—I, a young lady grown, who ought to
have known better than to make fun of a person so much older.
“She always tried to be very gracious to everybody and she
tried so hard that it gave her graciousness a ridiculous touch.
She would fold her hands softly in her lap, smile gently, nod
her head slowly at almost every word, and say in a sweet voice,
‘I _learned_ this from _Dr. Quimby_ and he made me _promise_ to
teach it to at least _two_ persons before I _die_.’
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