● ● ●  cases she would take it over. Yet her effort was always to fit the student to heal the case himself. She repeatedly wrote of the danger of relying on her personality instead of on the divine Principle of her Science. The need for this was emphasized by the fact that she had not yet rid herself of the old Quimby tendency to take on the sufferings of those who clutched at her personally for healing.

The test of Science was whether it could be taught and practiced by others. Mrs. Wentworth was an eager student and seemed to get good results. She agreed to give Mrs. Glover board and lodging in return for the instruction she received, and since she made quite a respectable income from healing for the rest of her life, this was a small enough price to pay.

Like Hiram Crafts, she continued to employ some of her earlier methods along with the rudimentary metaphysical practice she was learning. Mrs. Glover had resigned herself to the fact that her early students were simply not ready to practice at her own spiritual level. It was a matter of letting the tares and wheat grow together until she could see more clearly how to separate them.¹²⁸

The idealized figure of Quimby still played a frequent part in her conversation, and her reverence for the departed healer was one of the things that was loudly mocked by Horace Wentworth and his saucy cousin Kate Porter (later Mrs. Clapp) who did most of the copying of Mrs. Glover’s growing mass of manuscript.¹²⁹ Horace was quite as opinionated as his father but without the latter’s lively interest in the Bible, and his frank scorn of Mrs. Glover would often stir the other members of the family to indignant protest. Young Kate, who was bored to distraction by the manuscripts she copied, let her high spirits escape in mimicry of the author’s mannerisms.

To an inquirer about her teachings, Mrs. Glover at this time wrote, “I am kept down by opposition and poverty, so that I cannot do what I otherwise could,” but she added firmly: “We have enough beliefs, we  ● ● ●