Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-09
SCIENCE LEADER
PASSES AWAY
Mrs. Baker Eddy Dies From Old
Age.
LAST MOMENTS PEACEFUL
Aged Founder and Head of Christian
Science Church Dead at Her Bos-
ton Home-Leaves Estate
Valued at $1,5oo,ooo

Boston.-Mrs. Mary Baker Glover
Eddy, head and founder Of the Chris
tian Science church, is dead at he1
residence at Chestnut Hill, aged nine
ty years. Mrs. Eddy had been il
two days. She had received no medi
cal attendance.
The end came so quietly and peace
fully that Mrs. Eddy's most intimate
followers who stood at her bedside
thought she had fallen into a calm
sleep. The last written words Of the
mother of the Christian Science
church, penned as a message to hel
disciples, were God Is My Life
Body Lies in State.
The body now lies in state in the
large room on the grand floor of hel
home Only the leaders in the church
were permitted to take last look al
her face.
According to an announcement
preparations may be made to allow
the members of the Boston church &c
pass the bier before the funeral takes
place. 1t is doubtful, however, at the
present time whether any such ar
rangements will be made. 1t was
Mrs. Eddy's last expressed desire that
the utmost simplicity might be fol
lowed after she had passed away. NC
arrangements for the funeral have yet
been made.
Was Indisposed Nine Days.
Mrs Eddy had been indisposec
about nine days. She was in posses
sion of all her faculties until the very
end
1t Is reported that her death fol
lowed a slight cold contracted on one
of her daily drives through the
grounds of her Chestnut Hill home
1t is believed her drive of Thursday
might have aggravated the cold she
caught a little over a week ago. The
extent to which Mrs. Eddy had car
ried her idea of personal suppression
in regard to the Christian Science
church is shown in the fact that she
was never inside the new Christian
Science church on Falmouth street
in this city. 1t is also probable thai
she never saw the edifice.
About her at the time death came
were persons who have been intimate
ly associated with her in her house
hold for the past several years: Cal
vim A. Frye, Laura E. Sargent, Mrs
Ella S. Rathvon of Colorado, Rev
irving C. Tomlinson, her correspond
ing secretary; William R. Rathvo1
and her secretary, Adam H. Dickey
of Kansas City.
No Physician Was in Attendance.
No physician was in attendance a
the bedside of Mrs. Eddy. While ne
one of those present, all Of whom
were devoted students, realized JUS
when death had come, it was believed
by them and so stated that Mrs. Edd!
had spent her final moments in the
body in a spiritual communing with
God, fighting against death according
to the principles which she had her
self set forth In the Bible of the
Christian Science religion, her book
Science and Health, With Key to the
Scriptures"
Health Officer Issues Certificate.
After Mrs. Eddy's death came those
about her set themselves to do the
necessary duties. A telephone cal
was put in for DR.. George L. West
the medical examiner of Newton Cen
ter, whose presence was required un
der the law, as Mrs. Eddy had no
had medical attendance. Doctor Yves
Immediately responded and after ma
king his examinations Of the body
pronounced that death was due tt
| natural causes" and issued the Gus
tomary certificate.
Chairman Albert Farlow stated tina
the great body of Christian Scientist
had received the news Of Mrs. Eddy
death with the greatest calmness
as the passing Of their founder, thei
pastor emeritus, and of grea
leader. Chairman Farlow said tina
officially, so far as the Christian
Science church is concerned, he
death would not mark so great al
epoch in the career of the church o.
a revolution as so many outsider.
would think
The first news to the disciples o
Of Mrs. Eddy in this city came wher
the large auditorium was crowded To-
the morning service. At the conclu
Let %
by the readers. Judge Clifford P
Smith, first reader of the new church
here, arose and without any pream
Bile, read the official notice of he
death with a short extract from Mrs