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Preface
For many years a mass of documents of interest to Christian
Scientists and to their critics as well, has been withheld from publication,
although earnestly sought. These documents were written by Dr. P. P. Quimby,
of Portland, Maine, and contain his views regarding mental and spiritual
healing. They became familiar to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy when she visited
Dr. Quimby as a patient, before the days of Christian Science, and it has
been charged by her critics that many of the ideas later promulgated in
Christian Science teachings were born of the Quimby's theories.
In order to set this controversy at rest, many attempts
have been made to gain access to the Quimby manuscripts, but heretofore
without success except in piecemeal or disjointed form. The present editor,
however, has been fortunate in securing from Mrs. George A. Quimby, owner
of the manuscripts, permission to print the documents in full. Many of
them now see the light of the printed page for the first time. Others give
a full and authentic version of material from which only short extracts
have previously appeared.
The
editor's point of view is that of the expositor, never critical save as
the author of the manuscripts might have criticized his own work. All subject-matter
in brackets is by the editor, also all footnotes. Italics and quotation-marks
have been introduced to a slight extent. Scriptural quotations have not
been corrected, because Dr. Quimby was in the habit of paraphrasing in
order to show how he interpreted the Bible. Some of the articles have been
condensed to avoid
