Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-05

large edifice was erected in this city of
which she was made pastor emeritus.
Her writings at this time became very
.oluminous and she contributed largely
to the Christian Science Journal, the
Christian Science Sentinel and to Der
Herald De-, Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy
took up her residence in Concord in 1889
and it was from her home in Pleasant
View that she looked down on the great
growth of her denomination and at which
she received many enthusiastic follow
ers, until the number became SO large
that she was forced to ask them to cease
their visits Nevertheless, large delesa~
tons continued to 90 up the Merrimack
river and in June, 1903, 10000 Christian
Scientists visited Concord and heard a
few words from the leader.
During the last years of Mrs. Eddy's
life, in Concord, there was a newspaper
controversy over her identity, and fo-
several days the city was filled with re-
porters drawn there on the charge that
another person was impersonating her.
Mrs. Eddy was obliged to exhibit her.
self to jury of newspaper men. Later.
certain law SUITS, INSTITUTED III DcldIl Vi
her son. resulted in her transferring to
him an eighth of a million dollars and
to three trustees her entire property.
Mrs Eddy took up her residence at
<Ylestnut Hill, Newton, in a large stone
house in 1908 and there her last days
were spent. For the past three years she
lived quiet peaceful life, much of it of
a seeming sameness, but which her
friends said was consumed mostly in
constant study.
Mrs Eddys literary efforts were al
most wholly in prose but her poems
have been sometimes sung as hymns.
gins as follows:
Shepherd. show me how to go
Ger the hillside steep,
How to gather, how to sow,
How to feed Thy sheep"
The Christian Science Monitor will say
tomorrow editorially, of the death of
Mrs Eddy:
Mary Baker Eddy, the discover ane
founder of Christian Science, passed
away on Saturday night at her home on
Chestnut Hill She was deeply loved and
revered not only by all the members of
her church, but by all those who under
stood anything of her incessant labor for
the welfare of humanity. At such a mo-
ment it is helpful to be able to show, in
her own words, that her followers who
have enlisted to lessen evil, still enjoy
to the full the wisdom of her leader
ship.
For many years, in the retirement in
which she has lived. Mrs. Eddy has ac-
customed her followers to look to God
rather than to her, and so to learn to do
without that personal leadership the
world commonly demands. The future of
the Christian Science movement will
prove how unerring was her Judgment
in this as in every other matter which
became her care.
in her retirement Mrs. Eddy con-
tinued to work for the cause of human
ity with the same untiring seltishnaSs
with which in the earlier days OF nor
discovery she had worked to health ply
steal intirm aries Her followers will con
time To proye their Jude, standing OF htr
teaching by that unity of thought and
nurnose through which alort they can
prove their gratitude and demonstrate. as
the Christ.
Mrs. Eddy was one 10 Immediately
Impress you as being an unusual per
sonage" declared a close associate Oh
the Christian Science leader tonight.
she was short and small, never
weighing Tut little over 125 pounds,
Vet always erect even in the last. and
retaining her figure in wonderful
manner But it was not her stature
of her bearing that impressed one so
much as the marvellous light CT her
eyes which held lustre which ever
puzzled one to determine their exact
color At one time they would appear
gray, at another Drown and in fact
they almost seemed possessed OF
power t. change but they never lost
the light which seemed almost spirit
ual Her face vas broad across the
forehead. tap"ring gracefully to the
chin Her hair was always bound
closely back over her head. leaving
her forehead bare Her skin was
white and delicate and her hair. in the
last days. pure white. BY many she
had been likened to the late Frances
Willard in appearance. especially in
the almost ethereal complexion which
made her face strkingly noticeable
Her hands were small and delicate
and her movements she was quiet and
deliberate. yet firm. When she spoke
it was in a calm easy manner which
at once impressed her listener with
the fact that she was speaking from
conviction and with authority. For
years she retained the same appear
ance and until death appeared about
10 Years OF age.