Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-05
ADHERENTS MOURN
DECEASED LEADER
Mind of Late Mrs. Eddy Clear
Until End, Declare Her
Friends
FUNERAL MAY BE PRIVATE
Medical Examiner Makes Investi-
cation and Announces Death
Due to Natural Causes
FUNERAL MAY BE PRIVATE
tContinued fron Pace ons,

past.
1t was pointed out that with the ex-
ception of a few routine matters the
actual direction OF the church work
was relinquished to great degree by
Mrs. Eddy some years before her death,
although she continued to keep in close
touch with those to whom she had en-
trusted the work and had clear un-
derstanding of how it was being per-
formed.
The notice read at the morning SER
vice Of the mother church was repeat
ed at the evening service to an unusu-
ally large congregation and also was
read at many other Christian Science
churches in this section of the country.
MRS. EDDY SEEN IN DEATH
DR.. George L. West, who was called
to the Eddy home and who filed out
the death certificate, made the follow
ing statement tonight:
II was called to the home of Mrs.
Eddy early this morning and arrived
about 4:30. 1 was met at the door by
Calvin A. Frye and others of the house,
hold, who directed me to a bedchamber
on the second floor. Here l met Mrs.
Sargent.
81 found the body of a woman about
90 years of age lying on the bed, her
hands crossed over her breast. The
face was somewhat wasted, but kindly
and in repose. I talked with Mr.
Frye, who said: Mrs. Eddy had been in
error about a week and passed away
very quietly
''Mr. Frye described the symptoms
and spoke of an Inflammation of the
chest which led me to the conclusion
that pneumonia had been the contrib
utory cause of death"
Alfred l.. Farlow of the publication
committee of the Christian Scientist
church and other leaders in the Mother
church declined tonight to make
statements concerning the last hours
of Mrs Eddy beyond the one made
public in the course OF the day.
Miss Sybil Wilbur, the latest of Mrs
Eddy's biographers, whose Life"
was approved by the leader and the
church authorities, says that no mys-
terry today surrounds Mrs. Eddf's life
history Her birth, her ancestry for
200 years, her education, her social
development, her individual service to
the world, have been scrutinized with
the strong searchlight of both love
and criticism"
SKETCH OF WoMAN's LIFE
Other less friendly commentators on
Mrs. Eddy's work and life have criti-
cised her more or less severely and
some have denounced her as an inn
postor.
Her life began among the granite
foothills of New Hampshire. Her
father, Mark Baker, was q farmer of
Bow and a descendant of revolution
ary and colonial heroes, while her
mother was of Scottish ancestry. She
WIS the youngest of three daughters
and three sons.
She was of delicate health from her
birth, and in her childhood is said to
have perplexed her father by sage
sayings and doings. Her education in
little schools and later at Pembroke
academy was supplemented by what
she gathered from discussion of re-
ligious matters at the family flreside
when several leading churchmen gath
cred to talk over church matters with
her father.
In the early '4os George Washington
Glover, formerly of Concord, became
associated with Samuel Baker, the
third son, and as a result Mary Baker
and he were married about Christmas
in 1916 ct Tilton, N. H. The Glovers
went to the south, where Mrs. Eddy
saw slavery in its worst form, and
there the June after her marriage she
was left q widow. Returning to New
Hampshire, she gave birth to her son,
George washington Glover, in Sep
tember.
Mary Baker Glover spent the next
few years with her sister Abigail and
other relatives in New Hampshire, and
began literary work with several arti-
cles on her observations of slavery in
the south. She also taught school
About 1850 a wave of spiritualism
swept over New England. which drew
her attention to some extent.
After nine years of widowhood Mrs.
Eddy married DR.. Daniel Patterson,
a New Hampshire dentist. This mar
riage was not happy. However, the
relationship was continued for twenty
years, when it was severed by divorce.
MEETING WITH PHINEAS qUINBY
A notable event of Mrs Eddy's life
was her meeting in 1862 with Phineas
Quinby, a mesmeric healer, at the In
ternational hotel in Portland, Me.
Quinby, who was the son of black
smith, was-described at the time of his
meeting with Mrs. Eddy as shrewd
little man of argumentative disposition
and dogged determination. From ac-
ouaintance with him Mrs. Eddy be-
came imbued with metaphysical ideas
and began a career in that direction
which made her one of the most famous
of the worlds mental healers.
Mrs, Eddy, then Mrs. Patterson,
dwelt long under the influence of
Quinby's mesmeric belief, and it came
to have a great though not supreme
weight on her subsequent teachings.
Later she denounced Quinby's methods,
and said:
ulSCONSreu Tic SCleHCS u lIlluO-
reading, and that was enough"
After spending two years in Portland
Mrs. Patterson rejoined her husband
in Lynn, where she lived five years,
continuing her study of metaphysics.
While there she suffered fall on the
ice which the doctor said was severe.
but from which she recovered, it is
said, in one night. 1t was this incident
that led directly to the PRONUNCIATION of
her discovery of Christian Science.
MECCA FOR ALL SCIENTISTS
The little house on Broad street in
Lynn, where she lived at this time, is
a mecca of Christian Science pilgrims
from all over the world today. 1t was
in 1876, nine years after the discovery,
that the first edition of Science and
Health" was published. The closing
chapters of the manuscript were writ
ten in an upper room of the Broad
street house.
In 1877, four years after her separa-
tlon from Mr. Patterson, the founder
of the new belief was married to Asa
Gilbert Eddy. In the interval she had
Eeen admitted into the congregational
denomination and baptized.
Mrs. Eddy established the Massa-
chusetts Metaphysical college in Bos-