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148 the one hundred and fifty dollars which she had paid in advance for tuition. Wallace Wright, one of the most intelligent of her early students, publicly attacked in the Lynn press the "Moral Science," as it was then called, which he had studied under Mrs. Glover.

Wallace W. Wright was the son of a Universalist clergyman of Lynn, and a brother of Carroll D. Wright, who afterward became United States Commissioner of Labour. He was regarded as one of the most promising young business men in Lynn, when he was drowned in the wreck of the City of Columbus, off Gayhead Light, January 18, 1884. When he first studied under Mrs. Glover, he was very enthusiastic over her Science and, much to his own surprise, made several successful demonstrations.

Before he entered her class, he had made careful inquiries about the nature of what she taught. Both he and his father were interested in her claims and wished to pin Mrs. Glover down to exact statements concerning her Science. He wrote her a letter, asking her nine questions, and requesting an answer to each in writing. (Here follow the most significant of Mr. Wright's questions, together with Mrs. Glover's answers):

1—Upon what principle is your science founded?

1—On God, the principle of man.