Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1911 to 1913. In 1919, he became a minister of the General Convention of the Church of the New Jerusalem, a denomination built around the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, briefly serving as a pastor of a Swedenborgian church in Portland, Maine. Controversy Despite never meeting him, Horatio Dresser was a strong advocate of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. Dresser' sometimes extreme adulation of Quimby led one Quimby acolyte to deduce that Horatio Dresser was actually a reincarnation of Quimby. In 1921, after the Library of Congress made Quimby's papers publicly available, Dresser compiled and edited a selection of Quimby's works, The Quimby Manuscripts (1921). In this work, Dresser re-opened the controversy concerning Quimby and Mary Baker Eddy, and her sources for developing Christian Science. He attacked Eddy in a chapter as well as in the appendix of the book. The work was heavily edited and highly selective, and Dresser chose to only publish what supported his and his parents' claims. According to Ann Taves, "Dresser used the psychology of the subconscious to reinterpret the writings of Phineas Quimby and provide a unified theoretical foundation for the dissenting mind-cure groups under the banner of New Thought." He saw Christian Science and New Thought as linked together in what he called the "mind cure" movement, but disliked the public emphasis on Christian Science as opposed to what he saw as the "more rational" New Thought; so he wanted to link the origins of "mind cure" to Quimby. The complete writings of Quimby were later made available through Boston University, and Gillian Gill writes that they revealed "only general similarities" between Quimby's writings and Eddy's. Personal life Dresser married Alice Mae Reed in 1898. He died March 30, 1954, in Boston, Massachusetts. Bibliography The Power of Silence, 1895. Education and the Philosophical Ideal, 1900. A Book of Secrets with Studies in the Art of Self Control, 1907. A Physician to the Soul, 1908. A History of the New Thought Movement, 1919. The Quimby Manuscripts, 1921. A History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1926. Outlines of the Psychology of Religion, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1929. Booklet God is Love. 1906 A Law of Human Evolution. 1905 References External links 1866 births 1954 deaths People from Yarmouth, Maine American religious leaders Swedenborgian Church of North America New Thought writers American spiritual writers 19th-century American writers 20th-century American writers Harvard University