Article October 4, 1999 Issue

FROM HEALER TO AUTHOR

with contributions from Yvonne Caché von Fettweis, Robert Townsend Warneck

In 1868 Mrs. Glover, as she was then calling herself, was seeking a thorough understanding of the Principle and rules of the divine Science that had healed her. The Bible had become her only textbook, and she was healing others in accord with the divine laws she was discovering in those Scriptures.

A telegram for "Mrs. Mary B. Glover" arrived at the Websters' on May 30, a Saturday. It was from Manchester, New Hampshire. "Mrs. Gale is very sick, please come Monday morning if possible. Answer yes or no." Her friends had come to think of her as a healer at this time. Mrs. Glover packed her bag immediately and went to see Mary Gale. When she arrived, the doctors informed her there was no hope, Mrs. Gale could not live. She was dying of pneumonia. Mrs. Glover healed her on the spot. This healing is referred to in Mrs. Eddy's book The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, on page 105. In later years when asked by a student what had prompted her to write Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mrs. Eddy told her about this healing. The student, Clara Shannon, relates in her reminiscence:

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