 Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:34 AM
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Anonymous (11/17/2009)
I thought she lost the suit or it was dismissed.
No, she withdrew the suit. As her biographer Robert Peel states: "...she was granted leave by the city of Lynn on December 26 to withdraw the petition she had presented six months before..." (Robert Peel, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery, p. 201.)
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Posted Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:07 AM
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Anonymous (11/16/2009)
Anonymous (11/16/2009)
I never recall reading anything saying
MBE was knocked unconscious from the fall.
From the February 3, 1866 Lynn Reporter:
"Mrs. Mary M. Patterson...fell upon the ice near the corner of Market and Oxford Streets, on Thursday evening, and was severely injured. She was taken up in an insensible condition and carried to the residence of S. M. Bubier, Esq., nearby...Dr. Cushing, who was called, found her injuries to be internal, and of a very serious nature, inducing spasms and intense suffering. She was removed to her home in Swampscott yesterday afternoon, though in a very critical condition."
Robert Peel writes:
"As soon as it was realized that she was badly injured she was carried into the nearest house. Dr. Alvin M. Cushing, a popular homeopathic physician and surgeon was immediately called. He found her, according to his account almost forty years later, 'partially unconscious, semi-hysterical, complaining by word and action of severe pain in the back of her head and neck.' After examining her he gave strict orders that she should not be moved. Two or three friends offered to stay with her through the night.
"Cushing paid two visits that evening. When he returned the next morning the women who had been watching with her told him that she had been unconscious all night, and she was still not able to speak." (Robert Peel, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery, p. 195.)
Concussion, perhaps? And maybe a kind of whiplash. It would have been painful, but not life-threatening. If the brain sloshed too badly, which can happen in a car accident, sometimes people drop dead later, but obviously she didn't.
Ann
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Posted Saturday, January 02, 2010 3:10 PM
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I would only add that all the references to various lawsuits in the accounts of her life are, to me, completely contrary to her teachings..and most certainly against the teachings of Jesus. Why would anyone with their life turned over to almighty God, someone who is full of His Spirit, take another man to court?
The personal history of this woman, her odd behaviour and questionable motives are what drove me out of cs. I , for many, many years battled in my mind the questions about her sanity and her infallibility. I always wondered if someone who claimed to be 'God's revelator' could be trusted . And I also constantly wondered about whether or not everything she taught could be true if she was wrong about her place in the bible. Whenever i tried to talk about such questions with other csists, they would clam up and look suspiciously at me. What a torture inner life I led trying to decide which of her teachings were true and which were false. I often would try to just put aside all doubts about mrs. e and try to trust that everything taught in cs was absolutely true. I went along for years not wanting to read anything about her for fear i would find more troubling things. When I finally began to read accounts of her life, both from her devotees and from her enemies, I had my worst fears confirmed. She was dellusional, self centered , often mean spirited and deceitful. Maybe her dellusions of grandure were a result of the famous head injury.
still sorting it all out
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