● ● ● than a matter of intellectual comprehension, and the whole development of Mrs. Glover’s language at that time pointed in the direction of her later statement: “As Christian Scientists you seek to define God to your own consciousness by feeling and applying the nature and practical possibilities of divine Love."155
The Boston publisher whom Mrs. Glover consulted about her manuscript told her that he would need six hundred dollars cash in advance in order to bring it out. The terms were prohibitive, but she may have urged the Wentworths to raise the money by one means or another, and this may have contributed to a growing coolness on the part of the elder Wentworths. At any rate, no further steps were taken toward the manuscript’s publication.
It is not easy to have a prophet as a member of a very ordinary household. The evidence shows that Mrs. Glover now lived for one thing only: the carrying out of the mission which she was sure God had given her. She was prepared not only to sacrifice for it but also to ask others to sacrifice, and not unnaturally her demands on her friends during these years sometimes seemed highly unreasonable to those of them who shared little or none of her vision of the future.
Young Richard Kennedy of Amesbury visited her at Stoughton several times, thus becoming acquainted with the Wentworths—and greatly taking the fancy of Lucy, who was fifteen years old by the time Mrs. Glover left there. In an interview in 1907 he said:
The Wentworths were well enough in their way, as were the Crafts with whom Mrs. Eddy lived at an earlier period, and the Websters of Amesbury. It was an unfortunate fact that Mrs. Eddy with her small income was obliged to live with people very often at this time in her life who were without education and cultivation. It was never her custom to keep apart from the family. She invariably mingled with them and through them kept in touch with the world. She had a great work to do; she was possessed by her purpose and like Paul the ● ● ●