Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-12-07
MRS. EDDY IN
MOUNT AUBURN
Body viii Rest With Other
Famous Americans.

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Boston, Dec. 7.-Mount Auburn Gem
etery, the last resting place OF Henry
w. Longfellow, James Russell Low
ell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edwin
Booth and other famous Americans
will be the burial home of Mrs. Mary
Baker Eddy.
The decision to select this cemetery
instead of some place that has been
identified with the life and presence
of Mrs. Eddy was reached at q CON
sultation between the principal Of
icers of the Mother church. Its an
nouncement set at rest a number Of
rumors that the body of the founder
OF Christian Science was to be laid
away In a magnificent mausoleum In
or near the estate at Newton where she
died.
a monument will be built over Mrs.
Eddy's grave, but what form the mon
ument will take has not been decided
yet. 1t viii be of simple form. charac-
teristic of the life OF the dead wo-
man, and will seek to convey by its
fashion some idea of the principle
which she adopted In Science and
Health" Certainly 1t will not be any
gorgeous tomb to stand as a monu-
mental Mecca for all devout Christian
Scientists.
Until the directors of the Mother
church, in Boston, decide upon a suit
able lot for the burial Mrs. Eddy's
body will lie in a receiving vault in
the cemetery after the funeral serv-
Ices, which are to be held In the house
where she died.
The announcement Of the plans for
the funeral were made by Alfred M.
Farlew, the REPRESENTATIVE of the d.
r~ectors.
No Elaborate Services.
Mr.. Farlow said the last earthly hon.
ors that are to be paid to the founder
and leader of the Christian Science
church are not to be elaborate. Upon
the word Of one of the directors of the
Mother church rests the statement that
Mrs. Eddy's funeral will be no differ
ent from that of any of us in her sta
ton In life who should pass away.
There is to be no mystery, no secrecy,
only the utmost simplicity"
The funeral services, which are to
be conducted by Judge Clifford P.
Smith, first reader of the Mother
church, will be read by the side of the
rntTn In fhn Ain, narfn,s 81 the Ao,,an
at Newton at II o'clock tomorrow
morning. Not more than twenty-five
or thirty persons will be present, and
they will be members of the board and
members of the Eddy household" at
the Newton mansion. George W. Clio
yer, Mrs. Eddy's only surviving son,
and, 1t Is said, Ebenezer J.. Foster
Eddy, Mrs. Eddy's adopted son, who
lives in Waterbury, VT, also win be
there.
Crypt Rumcr Denied.
Immediately after the funeral serv-
ices a small funeral cortege will start
from the Eddy mansion to Mount Au-
burn cemetery, about five miles north,
between Cambridge and WATERFOWL.
There will be no services at the re-
ceiving vault.
john V. Dittemore. one of the board
of trustees of the Mother Church and
incumbent of the office of clerk of the
church, broke silence today to refute
various rumOrs concerning the final
disposition to be made of Mrs. Eddy's
body.
1.-THE report that Mrs. Eddy Is to be
buried in a secret crypt under the First
church is perfect bosh." MI. Dittemore
said. ''There is nothing sensational OF
mysterious about Christian Science or
about the First church In Boston. A
visit to the church will show any OBJ
server that everything Is brightness
and light In the church. We don't
purpose TO bury any bodies under the
floor. We Christian Scientists try to
get away from the superstitions which
are entertained by other religionists.
We have no sanctiied ground under
any editice devoted to the worship of
the truth that Is In life"
Don't Want Flowers.
Mr.. Farlow asked the newspaper re-
porters to publish the request of those
In charge of the funeral arrangement
that no floral offerings whatever
should be made.
Mrs. Eddy during her lifetime had
always held that blossoms were to be
enjoyed by the living and that they
had no significance to those who had
passed from life," Mr.. Farlow said.
THE absence of flowers and other &C.
cepted symbols OF grief is only in
keeping with the Christian Science
view Of the fruitlessness of any ex.
terror indication of grief over death"