The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-12-06
DIES MUCH like
ANY OTHER MORTAL

Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, who
always insisted upon being called
F" discoverer and founder" Of Chris
tian Science, died at her splendid man.
sion on Beacon street, in Chestnut Hill
section Of the city Of Newton, Mass,
at 10:45 O'Clock Saturday night, aged
80 years. Death was due to an attack
Of pneumonia, from which the aged
woman suffered about a week or ten
days, according to the opinion Of
Medical Examiner George L. West, Of
Newton Center, who was called and
viewed the body.
For more than a week Mrs. Eddy
had been ailing. Still she was mp and
about, taking her daily drives up to
Friday, when she took to her bed and
did not leave it again. On Thursday
she transacted some business and went
out for a short drive. The following
morning she arose at her usual hour,
and, after busying herself for some
time in her study, began to feel 80
weak that she went to bed. She failed
steadily, but no practicing physician
was Cdllcu tHc uicMUcIB VI uoK
household, most of whom are Chris
tian Science healers, giving her regu-
lar treatment.
Arrangements for the funeral SER
vices will be strictly private and no
one outside of members of Mrs. Eddy's
household, such members of her family
as come here and few Of the lead
ers of the church will be permitted to
attend or view the body.
Origin Of Christian Sc1snes.
From a little "faith cure'S board
inghouse established in Boston thirty
four years ago sprang the present
Church of Christ, Scientist, with .
mother church in BoCton having more
than $4,000 members and with about
$50 congregations scattered through
out the United States, to say nothing
of the many societies.
Mrs. Mary Baker G.. Eddy opened
that little boarding house and called it
the Massachusetts Metaphysical Col
lege'' It is said Of her that she had
no idea in the earlier days Of that
college that great riches would be
poured into her lap, that there would
be Wholesale desertions from other and
older congregations, and that the new
cult would be viewed with alarm by
the clergy.
For fourteen years Mrs. Eddy plod-
ded along with her "faith cure"
boarding house. Then she opened her
first church Of Christian Science In
Boston. There were but twenty-six
members. 1t had taken all those, years
of her work in the boarding house to
gather that number of followers
around her, but it was enough to form
the nucleus of the great following
that has been Mrs. Eddy's in the
years that followed.
From the first the little church
prospered. To- the twenty-six Of the
faithful to Mrs. Eddy were gathered
hundreds, then thousands. From the
mother church in Boston the other
churches throughout the country
spread. To the north, south and west
they sprang up, until there are hun
dreds Of the Christian Science congre-
cations and the church founded by
Mrs. Eddy numbers thousands Of mem
bers.
Not only did the new religion
spread, but in after years it was DEM
onstrated that the founder Of . new
religion may profit greatly financial
iy. Mrs. Eddy has made the statement
that when she abandoned her "Meta.
physical College" to devote her time
exclusively to the upbuilding OF
Christian Science, she forsook an an.
nual income of 100000. That her step
was not sacrifice 10 borne out by the
statement of her secretary years later
that as far back as 1895 she had made
| it a practice to give away annually
$4,000 in charity.
OF Old Massachusetts, Family.
Mary Baker Eddy was born in
Bow, N. H., July Is, 1921, and was the
Youngest of the six children Of Mark
and Abigail Ambrose Baker. The
earliest ancestor of the Bakers was
John, a freeman Of Charlestown, Mass.
In direct descent comes Joseph, born
/ in 1714, a deacon of the Congregation
al church. Mark Baker, Mrs. Eddy's
father, was the youngest of his child
rem. Mark with his brother, James,
inherited the family acres in the ad-
Joining towns of Concord and Bow.
Mrs. Eddy's mother was Abigail Am
brose, of Pembroke. Her sister was
the grandmother of Governor Hoke
Smith, Of Georgia. Mrs. Eddy's sis
ters and brothers were Samuel, AL
Ibert, George, Abigail and Martha. All
of the children of Mark and Abigail
Baker prospered. Mary was deli.
cate child, and being the youngest OF
the family, was not obliged to do hard
work.
Her great ambition when she at
tended school near her home was that
she might grow up and write book.
She first attended the Congregational
meeting house in Concord. She first
united with a church when she was
III becoming a member Of the First
Congregational church Of Tilton. "a