● ● ●  the last of that group of seven persons, and Mrs. Eddy again read the words already quoted and asked me if I considered the statement scientific. I replied that I had stumbled over it twice but had decided to let it go through. Mrs. Eddy paused for a moment and then said in tones I can never forget, “Then you are the one to blame. You are my student, are you not?” I responded, “Yes, Mrs. Eddy, I have that great privilege.” She then said, “Did I ever teach you anything like this?” To this I made no response, beginning to realize that a serious mistake had been made. She then addressed the whole group and said in strong tones, “Now, will you, any of you, tell me whether God has any more use for a well body than for a sick one?” This came like a flash of light, and we all wondered at our own dullness. Turning to me again, she said that her reason for having me come to Boston was because she hoped I would have been able to see that her teachings were strictly adhered to in the articles which went out, and that I had failed to do this in the statement in question. She insisted that man’s likeness to God is never a physical likeness and called our attention to page 313 of Science and Health, lines 12–19.

Mrs. Eddy went on to explain that at that very time she was suffering from a belief in illness and that many persons might ask whether God had any use for her when she was manifesting a belief of disease. She explained still further that she was not suffering because of any wrong she had done or thought but because she was striving to present to the world the truth which alone can save humanity from destruction, and that because of this, the world hated her. [She also said that] not yet had she gained the understanding to protect herself from all attacks of ignorance and malice, and that she  ● ● ●