Her activities ranged further than Stoughton. During the past few years she had kept in occasional touch with the Good Templars, and in the fall of 1868 she lectured several times at a branch of that organization at or near the now famous Episcopal school for boys, St. Mark’s, in Southborough.
Fifteen-year-old D. Lee Slataper was at that time a student at St. Mark’s and his roommate was Oscar Whitcomb, a nephew of John B. Gough. On one occasion when Mrs. Glover came to lecture Oscar was at home sick with a fever. She asked Slataper about him, and he told her that at the doctor’s orders he was giving the sick boy aconite. After the lecture she went back to their lodgings. The lad responded to her few words immediately, and next day when the doctor arrived he was back at his studies, perfectly well.
Slataper, who recounted the incident in a letter seventy years later, added that twenty years after it happened he was drawn by curiosity to attend Mrs. Eddy’s famous public address in Chicago ( June 14, 1888) and recognized her at once as the Mrs. Glover he had known as a boy. Her eyes “still had that sympathetic look full of compassion and love while her voice was full of assurance and conviction.”126
William Scott of Stoughton recounted an incident of healing which occurred in 1869. His father John L. Scott was taken ill with intestinal trouble which caused him terrible agony. He was given various remedies, to no avail. Mrs. Wentworth, who was then practicing under Mrs. Glover’s instructions, was sent for; but when she arrived she announced that Scott was in such a dangerous condition she didn’t dare take the case. At her urging, young William hitched up the team and drove over for Mrs. Glover, who came at once and found the patient writhing in pain. She spoke to him with authority, and within an hour or two he was completely well.127
The incident is revealing because it indicates a pattern that was to be followed for some years. Whenever Mrs. Glover’s students found a case too difficult for them to heal they would turn to her, and in most ● ● ●
126 David Lee Slataper, 17 June 1938, Reminiscence, p.2, MBEL; see also David Lee Slataper, 20 July 1938, Reminiscence, pp. 1–2, MBEL.
127 William Scott, recorded in H.L. Cobb to Alfred Farlow, 10 January [Peel’s estimate: 1907], Subject File, Mary Baker Eddy - Healings - Cases, MBEL.