● ● ●  Principle with Love and would use the term Father-Mother to express the solicitude of the creator for His creation, but in her earliest classes she presented the subject with an abstract radicalism that was more than some of her students could take.

In her very first class there was a sharp reaction from the belligerently fundamentalist Charles Stanley, who had not counted on being confronted with a new theology. Stanley, a Baptist, nearly disrupted the class by his arguments and objections. He had no intention of giving up his anthropomorphic God and devil and his hard-shelled orthodoxy. He was there for a plain dollars-and-cents reason, to learn how to heal; and while Kennedy’s manipulations made sense to him Mrs. Glover’s metaphysics did not.

She, on the other hand, took the view that the members of the class were there to learn, not to teach; so toward the end of the second week she turned Stanley out of the class. He complained and accused but felt he had learned enough to set up as a “doctor”—which he did with fair success for some years, later becoming a homeopathic physician.

In “The Science of Man” Mrs. Glover warned her students that meekness as well as other moral graces was necessary for continued advancement in Science:

Quimby had said that a man’s character was of small importance in his practice and teaching of science: “it is not absolutely necessary that he should be a good or a bad man.”²⁸ Calvinist orthodoxy, too, had rejected as Arminian heresy the idea that moral virtue could have  ● ● ●