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The Years of Discovery
Emergence: 1870 | page 388

Do we realize that we are moving to a position which while here, if we are faithful, brings us from the world probably nothing, but trials and rebuffs? but that in ages to come these meetings in the upper chamber, will have passed into history and that we will be blessed or cursed according to our fidelity in the preserving of Truth, until time shall be at an end. . . .

O, that I might be worthy; that I might have lived the life of righteousness to enable me to give to you, be it ever so little, of that living water which you must so desire to drink.159

It was this attitude that was to make Spofford Mrs. Glover’s most outstanding student and most reliable helper until Asa Gilbert Eddy should come along a year later. Before long the advertisement of “Dr. Spofford, Scientific Physician,” was appearing regularly in the Lynn Transcript, and several newspaper accounts of striking healings accomplished by him bore witness to his success. Now at least one student stood before the public as a full-time demonstrator of the new Science.

Toward the end of May Mrs. Glover gave a public lecture on “Christ Healing the Sick.” It was reported by a Lynn paper as “well written and well delivered,” but it was delivered only to “a select few.”160 Several days later at a meeting at 8 Broad Street Dorcas Rawson, George Barry, and Daniel Spofford were appointed a committee “to ascertain what a suitable hall could be rented for and the amount which could be raised weekly toward sustaining Mrs. Glover as teacher and instructor for one year.”161

A week later, on June 1, the committee reported, and the little group of students present drew up the following resolutions:

Whereas, in times not long past, the Science of healing[,] new to the age, and far in advance of all other modes, was introduced into the City of Lynn by its discoverer, a certain lady named Mary Baker Glover;

And, Whereas, many friends spread the good tidings throughout the place, and bore aloft the standard of Life and Truth, which had declared freedom to many manacled with the bonds of disease or error; 

159 Daniel H. Spofford to Mary Baker Glover, 26 April 1875, IC327.44.003, MBEL.

160 “Christ Healing the Sick,” Lynn Semi-Weekly Reporter, 26 May 1875, p. 2.

161 Daniel H. Spofford, entry for 26 May 1875, memorandum book, 1934.001.0001, p. 176, LMC.