The Mena weekly star. (Mena, Ark.) 1904-1977, 1910-12-08
MRS. EDDY IS DEAD
HEAD OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
CHURCH PASSED AWAY
SATURDAY.
WAS NEARLY NINETY YEARS OLD
The End Came PeacefulIy-tier Last
Wards Were "God 10 My LIfe-Had
Been lndisposed for Only 9 Days
Short Sketch of Life.

Boston, Dec. 6.---Mrs. Mary Baker
q. Eddy, founder of Christian Science
died late Saturday night of old age
at her home on Beacon street. Chest
nut Hill. She was in her Goth year
having celebrated her S9th birthday
on July Is last
The end came peacefully at 1914
o'clock. so quietly that Mrs. Eddys
most intimate followers who stood at
her bedside thought she had fallen in.
to a calm sleep. The written words
of the mother of the Christian Science
church, penned as message to her
disciples. were God is my life."
Though death supervened Saturday
night no public announcement was
made of her demise until Sunday
morning. To the worshippers in the
New Christian Science church the
tidings were broken in a mere state.
ment that Mrs. Eddy had passed to
her rest.
Told Newspapers IL Hours Later.
Just prior to the reading of this no
tice from the pulpit Alfred Farlow,
chairman of the publication commit
tee to the church announced Mrs.
Eddy's death to the newspapers in
Boston.
Mrs. Eddy had been indisposed
about nine days, but she did not take
to her bed until Friday night. She
never rose after that She ate her
maale raCttfa rlv nm, Caturday ,,ixh.
when her supper was served while
she lay in bed. She was in possession
of all her faculties until the very end.
The estate left by Mrs. Baker G.
Eddy probably will exceed s1,50000O
It consists of real estate in Newton
Pleasant View" her former home in
Concord, n. H., copyrights on her
books and publications and about ST.
100000 in municipal and state bonds
II is known that she made a will
and that 1t is in existence, but no hint
as to its contents ever has been given
Many believe that the entire estate
will be given to the church.
No More Striking Figure in History.
No more striking figure has history
known than Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy,
founder and organizer of Christian
Science. From a frail. sickly girl to
the untiring. insistently courageous
leader of cult that has had as its
devotees millions of seriously think
ing people. Mrs. Eddy's well crowded
life ran the span of SO years.
Mary Baker was born in rugged
farm house at Bow, N. H., on July 10,
1921. Her father was Mark Baker,
justice Of the peace of his town and
devout churchman. Her brothers
were Samuel, Albert and George; her
sisters, Abigail and Martha.
The girl acquired from her mother
fondness for reading, but when at
the age Of eight she told of hearing
voices" calling her in the night, her
father ordered that she be deprived of
books, because he believed her brain
when her brother Albert went to Dart
mouth she induced him to teach her
Latin. Greek and Hebrew in his vaca-
ton time and she studied so assidu.
ously that in the four years OF his
undergraduate work she had master
ed the grammer OF the three langu-
ages besides taking course of read.
ing in moral science and natural
philosophy. In reading the bible she
learned that Daniel prayed seven
times daily and she resolved to 90
likewise.
In 1S43 she was married to George
Washington Glover, by whom she had
one son. Glover died before the child
was born. In 1853 she married Dr.
Daniel Patterson, but divorced him in
1873, after constant pickering and dis
agreements. Il was emily at the urgent
advice of her intimates that she con
sented to apply for a divorce. Four
years later, on January l, 1877 she
married Asa Gilbert Eddy at Lynn,
Mass. He died on June 3, 1888
The turning point in Mrs. Eddy's
life, which brought her eventually to
establish Christian Science was in
1861, when she met DR.. Phineas Park
hurst Quimby, who was performing
some amazing cures at Portland,
"dihc. by bOHe Ut. AulHuy was re-
garded as a charlatan.
When She Met DR.. Quimby.
Mrs. Eddy then the wife of DIR. Pat
terson, had been an invalid for some
time. she placed herself under DR.,
Quimby's treatment.
Mrs. Eddy was carried to his Office
from the railroad station at Portland.
She was too weak to sit up in a chair
when the doctor entered the room.
Under silent treatment within a few
moments Mrs. Eddy experienced re-
lief from the pain of years. 1t was
only short time before she was able
to leave her bed at her hotel at Port.
land.
From that time on until DR.. Quinn.
by's death of cancer in 1866, he and
Mrs. Eddy worked together in heal
ing. 1t was after Dr. Quimby's death
that Mrs. Eddy published her first
book on the Science of Healing" II
had remarkable demand from the
time 1t left the printers hands.