In her copy of The Early Years of Christianity by Pressensé she marked with double emphasis the sentence, “He who is resolved to suffer and to die for God cannot be vanquished,” but she also marked on the next page the words: “Moral resistance . . . knows no chances, no risks. It is linked to an immortal principle, and destined to certain triumph.”⁵²

Bancroft wrote that Mrs. Glover was “absolutely fearless” in the face of sickness, and her healings during that period indicate as much.⁵³ The authority with which she could act is illustrated by her handling of the birth of a child to her student Miranda Rice. Called to Mrs. Rice’s home in the middle of the night, she healed her immediately of her labor pains, told her to dispose herself comfortably on the bed, and said, “Now let the child be born,” whereupon the birth at once took place. Mrs. Rice was at the same time healed of prolapsus of years’ standing.⁵⁴

Mrs. L. C. Edgecomb of Lynn gave written testimony of the healing of her year-and-a-half-old son, who had wasted away almost to a skeleton with a chronic bowel disease.⁵⁵ He could eat only gruel and had passed nothing but blood and mucus for many months. Mrs. Glover came up to the child’s crib, took him in her arms, and held him quietly, then kissed him and put him back. In less than an hour he was out of his crib, playing, eating normally, and perfectly healed.

A score of hypotheses have been advanced to explain such healings as this. Mrs. Eddy’s own explanation is to be found in Science and Health: “If the Scientist reaches his patient through divine Love, the healing work will be accomplished at one visit, and the disease will vanish into its native nothingness like dew before the morning sunshine.”⁵⁶ Whatever the explanation accepted, many such cures by her  ● ● ●