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Coincident with the reports of the success enjoyed by this enterprising faith, were reports of a book which has been written about its founder, Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy. The name of the book is Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy; its author was Adam H. Dickey, who during the closing years of Mrs. Eddy's life, had been her private secretary...
...Dickey's book there are astonishing stories about Mrs. Eddy. He explains how she was "fond of dress," how she manicured her nails every morning, how her house, in the sedate Boston suburb of Chestnut Hill, was fitted with an elaborate system of bells by which her "watchers" could be summoned. Mr. Dickey relates how Mrs. Eddy requested her disciples to care for the weather. "During some severe New England winters our leader would instruct her workers they must put a stop to the snow which she regarded as a manifestation of error...
...pain in the night. These enemies were the "mortal minds" most energetic in attacking her beliefs; they hung like a pack of phantoms around her neat house in Chestnut Hill and she could hear their painful voices screaming in the dark. Once she went for a drive with Mr. Dickey and said this to him on their return...
There came at last the night when she summoned Mr. Dickey to a lonely council ". . . and asked, in a deep earnest voice, 'Mr. Dickey, I want you to promise me something, will...
...Dickey waited, for reasons of church policy, seventeen years after Mrs. Eddy's death, at the hands of her "enemies" in 1910, to keep his promise. He, like his leader, died before he had finished his work, so his wife finished the book for him and saw it through the press in 1927. Five hundred copies were printed. When Clifford P. Smith, chairman of the Church committee on publication, requested Mrs. Dickey to suppress the book, she did so, even recalling the copies which she had sent to Mr. Dickey's former pupils. Two copies recently arrived...