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The Second Husband
Daniel Patterson was a civilian prisoner captured by Confederate Commander John Mosby and held hostage at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia as a future exchange. Within two months, a life-threatening illness strikes Daniel, yet he recovers only to be sent to Salisbury Prison in North Carolina.
A thunderous, stormy night in autumn of 1862 distracts the guards as Daniel escapes out a prison window and over a ten-foot fence. He walks at night, four-hundred miles north to Union lines and returns home to his wife in New Hampshire. Weak. Carrying the burden of trauma and the miracle of reaching freedom, alone but not alone.
A changed man, Daniel finds a changed wife. In his absence, Mary met Doctor Phineas Quimby, a metaphysician who treated her spinal and emotional problems with significant success, through mind-cure.
The next ten years of their marriage, Daniel reestablishes himself as an expert dentist.
Mary studies and teaches the healing effects of mind-power and she divorces Daniel, after twenty years of marriage. But an invisible energy of love keeps Daniel and Mary Baker Eddy connected for another twenty years as she starts a church that gains a large following.
A thunderous, stormy night in autumn of 1862 distracts the guards as Daniel escapes out a prison window and over a ten-foot fence. He walks at night, four-hundred miles north to Union lines and returns home to his wife in New Hampshire. Weak. Carrying the burden of trauma and the miracle of reaching freedom, alone but not alone.
A changed man, Daniel finds a changed wife. In his absence, Mary met Doctor Phineas Quimby, a metaphysician who treated her spinal and emotional problems with significant success, through mind-cure.
The next ten years of their marriage, Daniel reestablishes himself as an expert dentist.
Mary studies and teaches the healing effects of mind-power and she divorces Daniel, after twenty years of marriage. But an invisible energy of love keeps Daniel and Mary Baker Eddy connected for another twenty years as she starts a church that gains a large following.
341 pages, Paperback
Published March 8, 2022
About the author
Cheryl Petersen
29 books4 followers I was raised on a farm, in a family of seven. After receiving my Bachelors Degree from Colorado State University, I got married (still married, more than forty years later!) We have two fantastic, spirited, radiant daughters. We also fostered wonderful children over a period of fifteen years.
I had a public office as a Christian Science Practitioner for 13 years. I revised Mary Baker Eddy's, Science and Health, and titled it, "21st Century Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," now in its 7th edition.
With the seventh edition, I produced "Parallel Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that reads side-by-side with Eddy's last edition of Science and Health.
I also authored, "from science & religion to God: A narrative of Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health," and "The Second Husband," about Mrs. Eddy's 2nd husband.
I had a public office as a Christian Science Practitioner for 13 years. I revised Mary Baker Eddy's, Science and Health, and titled it, "21st Century Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," now in its 7th edition.
With the seventh edition, I produced "Parallel Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that reads side-by-side with Eddy's last edition of Science and Health.
I also authored, "from science & religion to God: A narrative of Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health," and "The Second Husband," about Mrs. Eddy's 2nd husband.
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