Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-12-09
MRS. MARY EDDY
CALLED BY Death
Christian Science Founder Dies
Of Pneumonia.
HAD BEEN ILL A week

No Practieing Physician Was Called to
Treat Her and Her Last Moments
Are shrouded In Mystery.
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, who al.
ways insisted upon being called the
"discoverer and founder" of Christian
Science, died at her splendid mansion
on Beacon street. Boston. in the Chest.
nut Hill section of the city, at the age
of eighty-nine years.
Death was due to an attack of pneu-
monia, from which the aged woman
suffered about week or ten days, in
the opinion of Medical Examiner
George l.. West, who was called and
viewed the body Mr.. Alfred Farlow,
chief press agent for the church of
which Mrs. Eddy was the head, said
that it was simply a case Of old age,
but after being hectored by the report
ers, he gave out what the medical ex.
aminer had put on the death certif1-
cate. These words were natural
causes" the contributing cause being,
probably pneumonia.
had been ailing or, as a Christian
Scientist would put 1t. had been in
error" Still she was up and about,
taking her daily drives up to Friday,
when she took to her bed and did not
leave it again. On Thursday she trans
acted some business and went out for
a short drive. The following morning
she arose at her usual hour, and after
busying herself some time in her study
began to feel so weak that she went to
bed. She failed steadily, but no prac-
ticing physician was called in, the
members Of her household, most of
whom are Christian Science healers,
giving her the regular treatment, and
Mr.. Farlow said that Mrs. Eddy
brought all her powers to bear in an
effort to heal herself of the error"
The end was peaceful one, accord.
ing to the press agent, and he said
that Mrs. Eddy retained all her facul-
ties up to the last moment.
Mrs. Eddy Was Born on Farm.
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy. commonly
spoken of as the discoverer and the
founder Of Christian Science, was born
on farm near Bow, New Hampshire,
on July 16, 1921. the daughter of Mark
and Abigail A. Baker. She was the
youngest of six children.
She grew to be, as some one wrote
not long ago, lone of the richest WON.
en- in America-more than that, the
most powerful American woman"
There came time, 1t was in 1875,
that about dozen disciples OF WON.
an named now Mrs. Mary Baker
Cover, the head of an idea that had
to do with the teaching of a mental
healing of physical LESSONS, met at
Lynn, Mass, to organize by resolution
the first Christian Science association,
Thirty-one years later, in June, 1906,
from all over the world came Christian
Scientists to dedicate in Boston the
most pretentious religious edifice in
New England and one of the most
coctly In the United States, the moth
er church" at Boston.
Out of that little meeting in Lynn
has grown an institution which stats.
tics of last year show that in the
United States there were 668 Christian
Science churches, and also churches in
Italy. France. Great Britain, Canada
and British Columbia, Norway, Swift.
zerland, India, China, South Africa,
Australia end many other countries.
Also in the United States were 1886
Christian Science readers and 5000
communicates. All these churches and
the churches in foreign countries are
the result OF the thinking of the deli.
cate, religious little farm girl, and all
are branc''rs of the mother church at
Boston. TIL. eat growth has result
ed in spite of the adverse attitude OF
the world and ,..e ~...icisms Of the
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