● ● ●  joined because they wanted to learn how to heal—although Tuttle was a bluff young seaman who joined simply because his sister, Stanley’s wife, asked him to as a result of the benefit she had received from Kennedy’s treatment. When, after a few lessons, Tuttle himself cured a girl of dropsy, he was so startled that he dropped the whole thing forthwith.

The classes were held in the evenings and lasted for three weeks. Before entering the class each student received from Kennedy a treatment consisting of physical manipulation. After this anomalous prelude he was plunged into a spiritual atmosphere so breathtakingly different that he might have entered a new universe. This was, in fact, exactly what he was invited to do. Like Saul who went out looking for his father’s asses, he was suddenly presented with a kingdom.

As a textbook for the course he was given a handwritten copy of Mrs. Glover’s manuscript “The Science of Man, by which the sick are healed, embracing questions and answers in Moral Science.” This he was expected to study assiduously and in part memorize. At the close of the class he was given “The Soul’s Enquiries of Man” and a few other shorter papers. Daniel Spofford, who was not a member of the class, wrote fifty years later that after reading his wife’s copies of the manuscripts several times he declared them to be “that for which the Christian Church had been looking for lo these eighteen centuries,” and he determined to give his life to establishing their truth;¹⁶ but when he actually studied with Mrs. Glover five years later, he discovered that the mere manuscripts “were, compared to her expounding of them, as the printed page of a musical score compared to its interpretation by a master.”¹⁷

Georgine Milmine recorded the testimony of early students of Mrs. Glover, given after decades of bitter estrangement from her: