The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-29
WANT NO GUARD
PLACED AT TOMB
They Liken Action to Setting of
Guard at Tomb Where Jesus
Christ Was Laid After His
Crucihxion-Protest Is
Made to the Mother
Church.
Isnectalt to The Times.pispatch.

1
New York. December 2S.-A certain
number of the members of the First
Church OF Christ, Scientist, of this city
have forwarded to the directors of TIL.
Mother Church o. the Christian Science
cult In Boston a protest against the
maintenance, by their orders. of an
armed guard in the receiving vault. In
Mount Auburn Cemetery, on the out.
skirts OF Cambridge. where the body OF
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy was tempo.
rarily consigned on December 8. Tho
protest sets forth that the action OF
the directors is comparable to that OF
the authorities of Jerusalem, who set a
guard at the tomb belonging to Joseph
of Arimathea, wherein Jesus Christ
was laid after His crucifxion.
Expect Bodily Rcsurectlon.
The action of the directors in pro-
vidlng this armed guard of two men.
day and night. at the tomb of Mrs.
Eddy shows lack of faith on their
part, the protest has set forth The
soldiers were set on guard at the tomb
of Jesus Christ because His disciples
had said that He would rise from the
dead, and 1t was the object of the
Jews TO disprove this assertion True
followers of Mary Baker C. Eddy be-
lieye that she also Will manifest her
self in a bodily resurrection The
maintenance of the guard at her tomb
by the directors of the Mother Church
seems to these protestants 10 indicate
that the ruling body of the faith IN
Boston wishes 70 forestall any evidences
of sucn manifestation by the estab-
aishment of a permanent group of
witnesses at the spot where the NOR
tai remains of the former leader of the
church lie.
Since the hour when Mrs. Eddy.s
body was laid in. the receiving vault in
Mount Auburn Cemetery, the guard,
consisting of members OF the christian n
Science faith scceptuble to the five d.
rectors. has been constantly on watch.
a telephone has been at their behest.
Provision for their comfort in cold and
uncongenial surroundings has been
provided.
These of the First Church here. who
are designated IS abnormal followers
OF Christian Science by Eugene r. Cox.
the chairman of the publication com
mittee of the Christian Science Church
in the State of New York. and who
united In the protest to the directors
OF the Mother Church, believe that
Mrs. Eddy was one with Jesus Christ
IN the unity of God, and that to prove
lhe truth of her doctrines of imn1orta1-
ity and the unreality of death, she viii
Ike Christ, rise from the dead IN II
the tangible manifestations OF ths
flesh
Accept Without Question.
They have accepted without question
'he lndirect implication made nv tra
author Of Science and Health in ,hat
work and her various other WRITING
10 the effect that she is .the woman
ciothed with the SUM- mentioned in
me twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse,
ana that 1t was her work, Science ana
aealth,' which the highly angel come
uoWn from heaven bore in his hand.
40 ar.ested 10 IN the tenth chapter of
titr DIeains OF st. John on Patmos.
70 .he MINDS Of these protestants
so SAID one who knew of their action
to-day, Mrs. Eddy's mantfestat,on -
herself in the flesh is but matter ~
time and of the ability of those pre-
pared by thorough separation of them
selves from things material to Wit
ness
When report Of this action was car
rled to Mr.. Cox. of the publication COM
mittee, he seemed to be considerably
exercised.
The concept of true Christian
Science does not recognize resurrec-
tion of the body in this age" he said.
ANY person who believes that Mrs.
Eddy Will demonstrate herself in the flesh
is more than visionary; he Is abb
normal There is no parallel to be
drawn between Mrs. Eddy and Jesus
Christ. In her own writings Mrs. Eddy
has expressed herself as inexplicably
shocked at the suggestion of such a
Christian Science does
not teach nor in any way prepare it's
students to expect spuch a manifesto
tion on the part of its discoverer. In
no part Of her writings has Mrs. Eddy
even nlnted at the possibility Of such
a phenomenon