Will you accept my Name for the class in Theology?
Some time since I intended writing a statement of my personal Knowledge of the attitude of Mrs Plunkett to you before and after her entering your class. You are perhaps aware that Miss S. J. Clark, C.S.D. (now) of ToledoEditorial Note: Toledo, Ohio, and myself came to Detroit about the same time, became acquaintedAs Written:acquaited, being in the same work and as Mrs P. called at my house one day in my absence As Written: absense was sent by my servant to Miss Clark whose patient she thus became. She however came to my house often, and indeed spent hours, with me questioning me upon Christian Science. I was warned at this time that I could not afford to have my Name in any way connected with her, as her reputation was not good, but so certain was I of the power of the Truth to uplift all that I was willing to hazard all earthly things to bring to anyoneAs Written:any one the joy that had come into my own life. A month or two after being acquainted with us She in spite of the warnings of Miss C. & myself went to Battle CreekEditorial Note: Battle Creek, Michigan, and joined herself to Swartz who was there at that time. She also insisted upon my teaching her Christian Science, for which she offered me the munificent sum of ten dollarsEditorial Note: $10.00 in 1889 is the equivalent of $318.10 in 2022.. It is needless to say that I for many reasons declined to teach her but it was a revelation of her true character. She had taken more of my time than would have been required to teach her a course in Christian ScienceAs Written:C. S. and besides had been treated by me (as also her children) without having ever offered one cent in remuneration. She too was living & dressing in elegance, I, a woman alone with three little ones striving to establish a cause glorious indeed but unknown in this city or state.
On my declining to teach her, she went as stated to Swartz, and called at my house on her return. In an interview which I had with her, before she went to BostonEditorial Note: Boston, Massachusetts, she said she was going to Mrs Eddy to take the Normal Course for which she knew she was fitted, and if Mrs Eddy declined to give her this, and also to place her at the head of affairs in this part of the country, as an organizer, she said "I will sweep her off the face of the earth".
You my dear Teacher will wonder why I did not warn you. Well you did not know me at that time. I was a student of Mr B. Sherman of ChicagoEditorial Note: Chicago, Illinois, and I did not feel that my opinion would have any weight. Further I did not dream that in her self-glorified state of mind she would ever be permitted to enter your class.
After having studied with you, she returned to this city, and spoke of you in terms both false and disrespectful to the last degree. By so doing she succeeded in disgusting the best people with herself. Some of her remarks made in the hearing of ladies afterwards students of mine, were such as could only have come from a coarse and cruel As Written: crul mind. Had I at that time possessed As Written: posessed the courage and the understanding I now do, I should have publicly Met and denounced these falsehoods, I mean in her presence to those she attempted to deceive. So long as it seemed possible to help anyoneAs Written:any one I tried to help her, in the spirit of that love which gladly would be ranked with sinners so that the sinner might be lifted up. Soon after her return from Boston she got from a poor girl who lives near here $125.00Editorial Note: $125.00 in 1889 is the equivalent of $3,976.30 in 2022. (all she had) for a course of instruction which left the poor girl in worse darkness than she had been before.
I make this statement very dispassionately, and if can serve any good purpose in exposing error I shall be glad.