Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 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 5os-
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 her
residence at Chestnut Hill, aged nine
ty years. Mrs. Eddy had been i'll
two days. She had received no medi-
cal attendance.
The end came so quietly and peace
fully that Mrs. Eddys 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 message to her
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 her
home. Only the leaders in the church
were permitted to take last look at
her face
According to an announcement
preparations may be made to allow
the members of the Boston church to
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. No
arrangements for the funeral have yet
been made.
Was lndlsposed Nine Days.
Mrs. Eddy had been indisposed
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 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
was never inside the new Christian
Science church on Falmouth street
in this city. 1t is also probable that
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 G. Tomlinson, her correspond
Ing secretary; William R. Rathvon
and her secretary, Adam H. Dickey
of Kansas City.
No Physician Was in Attendance.
No physician was in attendance at
the bedside of Mrs. Eddy. While no
one of those present, all of whom
were devoted students. realized just
when death had come, it was believed
by them and so stated that Mrs. Eddy
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. Eddys death came those
about her set themselves to do the
necessary duties. A telephone call
was put in for DR.. George L. West,
| the medical examiner of Newton Cen
ter, whose presence was required I'M
der the law. a5 Mrs. Eddy had not
had medical attendance Doctor West
Immediately responded and after ma
king his examinations of the body,
pronounced that death was due to
natural causes" and issued the Gus
tomary certificate.
Chairman Albert Farlow stated that
the great body Of Christian Scientists
had received the news of Mrs. Eddys
death with the greatest calmness
her death is regarded, he declared,
as the passing of their founder, their
pastor emeritus, and of a great
leader Chairman Farlow said that
officially, so far as the Christian
| Science church is concerned. her
death would not mark so great an
epoch in the career of the church or
a revolution as so many outsiders
would think.
The first news to the disciples of
of Mrs. Eddy In this city came when
the large auditorium was crowded for
the morning service. At the conclu-
sion of the reading of the Scriptures
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 her
death with a short extract from Mrs.
Eddy's own writings