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The Years of Discovery
Emergence: 1870 | page 352

● ● ●  magnetism thence going forward and leaving that behind. I discovered the art in a moment’s time, and he acknowledged it to me; he died shortly after and since then, eight years, I have been founding and demonstrating the science.72

On the very eve of an experience that would finally clear up this confusion, Mrs. Glover for the last time publicly associated her teachings with Quimby’s practice. The events that followed do more than any theoretical analysis to unravel the misunderstandings and resolve the contradictions in this situation.

Meanwhile, it is interesting to note Mrs. Glover’s answer to the last question, “What do you claim for it in cases of sprains, broken limbs, cuts, bruises &c. when a surgeons services are generally required?” In reply she wrote:

I have demonstrated upon myself in an injury occasioned by a fall, that it did for me what surgeons could not do. Dr. Cushing of this city pronounced my injury incurable and that I could not survive three days because of it, when on the third day I rose from my bed and to the utter confusion of all I commenced my usual avocations and not withstanding displacements etc I regained the natural position and functions of the body. . . .

. . . please preserve this, and if you become my student call me to account for the truth of what I have written.73

In April Wright went through Mrs. Glover’s third class. Although he paid the full amount, he remarked at the end to a classmate—George Allen’s sister, Mrs. Ellen A. Locke—that the last lesson alone was worth the price of the whole course. Shortly afterwards he moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, where another of Mrs. Glover’s students, Mrs. Addie Spofford, was already practicing Moral Science and her husband Daniel was engaged in the shoe trade. 

72 Wallace W. Wright to Mary Baker Glover, 10 March 1871, and Mary Baker Glover to Wallace W. Wright, 12 March 1871, Mary Baker Eddy letters, NYPL.

73 Wallace W. Wright to Mary Baker Glover, 10 March 1871, and Mary Baker Glover to Wallace W. Wright, 12 March 1871, Mary Baker Eddy letters, NYPL.