● ● ●  a denominational textbook, as a manual of healing and a key to the Scriptures, as reasoned argument and revealed truth.

First, however, it had to be published, and in the spring of 1875 came that delay of several months during which Mrs. Glover did not hear from the printers and during which she became convinced that she must add a further account of mesmerism as she had thus far observed it. At this time she associated it solely with physical manipulation as practiced by Kennedy and had not extended the term to cover the vast range of mental suggestion which she later denounced as mesmeric in nature.

The new section was inserted into the last chapter on “Healing the Sick.” Interestingly enough, this chapter in manuscript had been lent by her to one Prescott, in whose house Kennedy lived. While in Prescott’s possession it was stolen, and she was convinced that Kennedy was the culprit.¹⁶⁸

Nevertheless, despite all delays and harassments, the months before the publication of Science and Health were happy ones. Bancroft later wrote:

In August she held another small class which included two students from Boston, one from Pennsylvania, Bancroft’s brother, Henry, and a young woman named Florence Cheney. Mrs. Glover, convinced that Miss Cheney would make an excellent wife for George Barry, genially conspired to throw the two young people together and achieved the desired result. In a letter which mentioned Barry’s accompanying her home from Mrs. Glover’s the evening before, the young lady wrote: