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440 to Mrs. Woodbury in particular. One of the witnesses, however, Mr. William G. Nixon, Mrs. Eddy's former publisher, stated that he had understood that Mrs. Eddy meant Josephine Woodbury.

During the trial the courtroom was crowded with Christian Scientists, and Mrs. Woodbury decided that they had effected the outcome of the suit by concentrating their minds upon the judge and witnesses, and by "treating" them in Mrs. Eddy's behalf. She, accordingly, would not permit an appeal, but abjured Christian Science and retired into private life; and with Mrs. Woodbury's defeat perished the romantic movement in Christian Science.