Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-12-09
MARY BAKER EDDY
DIES Of OLD AGE
FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
PASSES PEACEFULLY AND
QUIETLY AWAY.
NO PHYSICIAN At WOMAN'S BEDSIDE
~God Is My Life" Last Written Words
by Church Leader Penned as
Message to Her Dis
ciples.

Boston, Mass.-Mrs. Mary Baker G.
Eddy, founder of Christian Science, is
dead of old age at her home on Beacon
street, Chestnut Hill. She was in her
ninetieth year, having celebrated her
eighty-ninth birthday on July 16 last.
The end came peacefully and so
quietly that Mrs. Eddys most init
mate followers who stood at her bed
side thought she had fallen into calm
sleep. The last written words of the
mother of the Christian Science
church, penned as a message to her
disciples, were, God is my life"
On receiving the newspapermen
Alfred Farlow chairman of the Chris
tian Science publication committee,
the following brief statement: Ma
tural causes; contributing cause prob
ably pneumonia. That is the reading
of the medical examiners death cer-
t!ficate."
Mrs. Eddy was in possession of all
her faculties until the very end. About
her at the time death came were per-
sons who have been intimately associ-
ated with her in her household for the
in attendance.
Sketch of Mary Baker Eddy.
No striking figure has history known
than Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy,
founder and organizer of Christian Sci
ence. From n frail. sicllly girl to the un-
firing. insistently, courageous leader of a
cult that has had as its devotees millions
OF seriously thinking people, Mrs. Eddy's
well crowded life ran the span of SO
wears. Mary Baker was born in rugged
farmhouse at Bow, N. H.. on July 16,
1921. Her father was Mark Baker JUS
tice of the peace of his town and de-
vout churchman. Her brothers We're Sam
uel Albert and George; her sisters Abidil
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 was
getting too big for her body. Later when
her brother Albert went to Dartmouth
she induced him to teach her Latin,
Greek and Hebrew In his vacation time
and she studied so assidously that in the
four years of his undergraduate work she
had mastered the grammar of three Ian
guages, besides taking a course of read
ing in moral science and natural phil
learned that Daniel prayed seven times
daily and resolved to do likewise.
At the age of 10 she became commu-
meant in the Congregationalist church.
Shortly afterward she entered Professor
Sanborn's seminary near Boston, where
she perfected herself in rhetoric and the
languages. 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 chickering's and disagreements
1t was only at the urgent advice of her
intimates that she consented to apply for
a divorce. Four years later on January
/. 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 DIR. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, who
was performing some amazing cures at
Portland, Me. Mrs. Eddy. then the wife
of Doctor Patterson, had been an invilad
for some time. She placed herself under
Doctor 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
immense relief from the pain of years.
1t was only short time she was able to
d.
From that time on until Doctor Quinn
by's death of cancer in 1866, he and Mrs.
Eddy worked together in healing It was
after Doctor Quimby's death that Mrs.
Eddy published her first book on the
'Science of Healing" 1t had remark
able demand from the time it left the
printers hands. Mrs. Eddy formed n
partnership in healing in 1870 with Rich
ard Kennedy in Lynn, Mass. Kennedy
had been one of her patients while she
was associated with Doctor Quimby. To-
gether they acquired a considerable Glen
,tele In Lynn. Mrs. Eddy applied herself
assdiously to writing books and to dis
tirbuting literature. Before the death of
Mr.. Eddy in 1888 she had. with his fnan-
cial aid, established her first school of in
struction in Christian Science at 500 Co
lumbus avenue, Boston. In the early
stages there were only some two score of
pupils. AS 1t grew the school took in the
house next door and was called the Mas
sachusetts Metaphysical college. The stu
dents lived at the school. During the
eight years of existence of this college II
had 1000 students and Mrs. Eddy gave
personal instruction to each. In 1879
Mrs. Eddy organized the First Christian
Science church in Boston. the mother
church. Immediately after that churches
were organized all over the country.
Christian Science spread everywhere.
There was no effort at the spectacular:
Mrs. Eddy simply preached a strong be-
lief in divine power, the religion OF faith.
Honors came to Mrs. Eddy as the cult
she established grew in strength Her
church became immensely wealthy. A
magnificent edifice was built in Boston IN
1895 to replace the original church II
stands today as "a monument to the un-
firing effort of its founder. Mrs. Eddy
retired from active work as the leader OF
dhe Christian Sssnee church in 1899, but
although too well advanced In years ia
take direct charge OF the affairs Of the
church, she never relinquished her hold
upon the faithful millions.
Find Badly INITIATED Body.