Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-12-06
BELIEVE HER BODY WILL
REST INaMOTHER"CHURCH
Death o. Famous Head Of the Re-
ieious Organization Said to be
Probably Due TO Pneumonia-End
Comes Unexpectedly TO Friends
Sketch of Her Career.

founder and head OF she Christian Sci
elce Church. who died Saturday Eight
at her bone in Chestnut Hi. Newion.
will fro it's last resting place IN the
crypt unde- the altar @. tns FRS. or
Moth er" church in Boston. IS rue he
lief tonight of many of those prom-
nent in the denomination.
No official intimation TO that effect
could be had, but SO far as could be
learned no arrangements have necn
made to take the body 10 Mrs. Eddy :
birthplace at Bow, y. H., or to Coi.-
cord, y. H.. where she so long re
sided.
A woman in high standing In the
church circles said today that there
was a general understanding among
the church at large that the body
would rest in the crypt of the Moth
err church.
Arrangements have been fully cola
pleted for the funeral on Thnlsiay
morning al IL O'Clock at the late home
of Mrs. Eddy at Chestnut Hill. The
services will be simple and the at
tendance will be hmitec 10 the family.
immediate household of Mrs. Eddy and
the leading officials Of the Christian
Science Church.
kilograms have been flowing in
steadily from all parts OF the world.
seeking verification of the news CT
the death of Mrs. Eddy and containing
many tributes.
Will Have No Successor.
Ebenezer j. Foster Eddy. OF Water
bury, VT. Mrs. Eddy's adopted son, il
expected to be present at the funeral.
When asked last night who would
succeed Mrs Eddy as the head of the
Christian Scien1e church, Alfred Far
low sail:
Il don't know that any one will
succeed her Everything will go on
as us al'
A statement given out by Eugene
r. Cox for the twelve churches in
this city says that the work will GO
on smoothly.
Mrs. Eddy" he said, never
preached that there is no material
death. although she had predicted the
ultimate conquest of death in time to
come and there need be no difficulty
in the minds of Christian Scientists
in recoaciling the physical fact of her
death with their disbelief il. death
itself
"The church of Christian Science
in this city and elsewhere will run
on smoothly of its own momentum
There can be no question of who
is to succeed Mrs. Eddy. She can
have no successor Christian Scien
lists the world over universally re
gard her as the discoverer- and found
er of the religion she taught. anc
there cannot be two founders of re
ligion."
Probably SYccumbed to Pneumonia.
Afte= being seriously liz several
days and having been reported dying
, several times. Mrs. Mary Baker GLOW
er Eddy. So years old. founder ol
Christian Science died Saturday
night. AZ 1895 O'Clock.
Mrs. Eddy's friends continued 4
assert mp tn the time she passedrawa,
that they did not expect her death
The announcement Of her death was
no, made until the morning service
of the mother church here yesterday
Mrs Eddy died in her home. Chest
nut Hin. suburb OF Boston.
Mrs. EdSy's Career.
There have been numberiess con
tToverssriss over the facts Of Mrs
Eddy's life. as well asher character
On the one side she has been pictured
as an inspired soercsf from her girl
hood. Her enemies have variously
called her a fraud. a crazy woman. an
unnatural mother. a believer In witch
craft and have exhausted the vocab
uiary Of vifuperation. And the war
has been a bitter one.
Among the mass Of conflicting state
men;s concerning Mrs Eddy. Miss
Mainline some years aEo published a
life u the famous author OF Science
and Health which. although Mrs
EDDY herself denied many % It's siate
menfs. Is considered BY the general
public a. probably a. nearly accurate
a. any.
o. oI1 New England Ancestry.
According to Miss Milmine's ac-
count. Mrs. Eddy vas the youngest
child Of Marx Baker and Abigail
BARNARD Ambrose. she vss born ai
Row. on the Merrimac river. Ne0
fizmnShire. July Is. 1874 Her ancee-
tors Tor uore than 200 years had Iiv'