In writing of this experience, Mrs. Eddy has said:—­

“I had learned that thought must be spiritualized in order to apprehend Spirit.  It must become honest, unselfish, and pure, in order to have the least understanding of God in divine Science.  The first must become last.  Our reliance upon material things must be transferred to a perception of and dependence on spiritual things.  For Spirit to be supreme in demonstration, it must be supreme in our affections, and we must be clad with divine power.  I had learned that Mind reconstructed the body, and that nothing else could.  All Science is a revelation.”

Through homoeopathy, too, Mrs. Eddy became convinced of the Principle of Mind-healing, discovering that the more attenuated the drug, the more potent was its effects.

In 1877 Mrs. Glover married Dr. Asa Gilbert Eddy, of Londonderry, Vermont, a physician who had come into sympathy with her own views, and who was the first to place “Christian Scientist” on the sign at his door.  Dr. Eddy died in 1882, a year after her founding of the Metaphysical College in Boston, in which he taught.

The work in the Metaphysical College lasted nine years, and it was closed (in 1889) in the very zenith of its prosperity, as Mrs. Eddy felt it essential to the deeper foundation of her religious work to retire from active contact with the world.  To this College came hundreds and hundreds of students, from Europe as well as this country.  I was present at the class lectures now and then, by Mrs. Eddy’s kind invitation, and such earnestness of attention as was given to her morning talks by the men and women present I never saw equalled.

MRS. EDDY’S PERSONALITY

On the evening that I first met Mrs. Eddy by her hospitable courtesy, I went to her peculiarly fatigued.  I came away in a state of exhilaration and energy that made me feel I could have walked any conceivable distance.  I have met Mrs. Eddy many times since then, and always with this experience repeated.

Several years ago Mrs. Eddy removed from Columbus to Commonwealth Avenue, where, just beyond Massachusetts Avenue, at the entrance to the Back Bay Park, she bought one of the most beautiful residences in Boston.  The interior is one of the utmost taste and luxury, and the house is now occupied by Judge and Mrs. Hanna, who are the editors of The Christian Science Journal, a monthly publication, and to whose courtesy I am much indebted for some of the data of this paper.  “It is a pleasure to give any information for The Inter-Ocean,” remarked Mrs. Hanna, “for it is the great daily that is so fair and so just in its attitude toward all questions.”