to her--and may yet, for that matter. Mrs. Eddy
was married three times. First, to Colonel George W. Glover, an
excellent and worthy man, who was the father of her only child, a son.
On the death of Glover, the child was taken by Glover's mother and
secreted so effectually that his mother did not see him until he was
thirty-four years old, and the father of a family.

Her second husband was Daniel Patterson, who was not only a rogue but
also a fool--a flashy one, who turned the head of a lone, lorn young
widow, who certainly was not infallible in judgment. In two years the
wife got a divorce from him, on the grounds of cruelty and desertion, at
Salem, Massachusetts. Her third marital venture was Doctor Asa G. Eddy,
a practising physician--a man of much intelligence and worth. From him
Mrs. Eddy learned that the Science of Medicine was not much of a science
after all. Mrs. Eddy used to say that her husband was her first convert;
certain it is that Dr. Eddy gave up his practise to assist his wife in
putting before the world the unreality of disease. That he did not fully
grasp the idea is shown by the fact that he died of pneumonia. This,
however, did not shake the faith of Mrs. Eddy in the doctrine that
sickness was an error of mortal mind. For a good many years Mrs. Eddy
drove the memory of her two good husbands tandem, hitched by a hyphen,
thus: Mary Baker Glover-Eddy. Many a woman has joined her own name to
that of her husband, but what woman ever before so honored the two men
she had loved by coupling their names! Getting married is a bad habit,
Mrs. Eddy would probably have said, but you have to get married to find
it out.

In Eighteen Hundred Seventy-nine, Mrs. Eddy organized the First Church
of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, and became its pastor. In Eighteen
Hundred Eighty-one, being then sixty years of age, she founded the
Massachusetts Metaphysical College, in Boston. For fifteen years she had
been speaking in public, affirming that health was our normal condition
and that as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. From her forty-fifth
to her sixtieth year she was glad to speak for what was offered,
although I believe that even then she had discarded the good old
priestly plan of taking up a collection. The Metaphysical College was
started to prepare students for teaching Mrs. Eddy's doctrines.

The business ability of the woman was shown in thus organizing and
allowing no one to teach who was not duly prepared