Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1910-12-07
DEATH OF NOTABLE LADY
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Head Of
Christian Scientist Church,
Passes at Age of Ninety.

B0St0n.-MrS. Mary Baker Glover
Eddy, the discoverer and founder Of
Christian Science is dead,
Natural causes" explains the
death, according to DR.. George l..
West, district medical examiner,
who was summoned a few hours
after Mrs. Eddy died. Later DR..
West added that the more imme-
date cause was probably pneu-
monia.
Sketch Of Her Life.
Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, the
"discoverer" and founder of Chris
tian Science, was born in Bow, N.
H. Her. father was man of some
property ard local distinction. He
was friend of President Franklin
Pierce and other well-known men
of his time. Mrs. Eddy was related
to Gen. John McNeill, a hero of the
battle of Lundy's Lane. On her
fathers side she was related to Gen.
Henry Knox of revolutionary war
fame. She was first cousin to
Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia.
AS a young woman she was a
confirmed invalid until the healing
incident. which ushered her to the
threshold of Christian Science.
In 1913 Mrs. Eddy married George
Washington Glover and removed
with him to Charleston, S. C. A
few months after their marriage
Major Glover was stricken with
yellow fever and died in Whining
ton, N. C. Mrs. Glover returned to
the home OF her relative in Tilton,
N. H., where her son was born.
In 1853 in the hope of regaining
possession of her son, from whom
she had been obliged by circumstan-
ces to separate, Mrs. Eddy married
DR., Daniel Patterson, dentist OF
Franklin, N. H.
1t was in 1866 that Mrs. Eddy met
with the accident which was the i'm
mediate cause of her discovery OF
Christian Science. She was living
at that time at Swampscott, just
outside of Lynn. She fell on the ice
and was injured internally so Sc
vcrely that the physician who was
called gave no hope Of her recovery.
Ignoring the medicine which had
been prescribed, Mrs.. Eddy, in her
extremity, turned to her Bible and
calimed to have received such in
spiration and spiritual enlighten-
ment from the account Of the heal
ing of the man with the palsy that
she arose from her bed a we'll wo-
man. Following this remarkable
incident Mrs. Eddy spent three years
in seeking an explanation of her
healing. She had always been a stu
dent of philosophy, was acquainted
somewhat with homeopathy, had ex-
amined the claims Of animal mag
netisln and spiritualism and was an
earnest student of the Bible.
After her discovery of the healing
power of Christian Science, Mrs.
Eddy made frequent applications of
her theory TO existing conditions.
She tested her metaphysical system
in the treatment OF disease and it
is said to have met with remark
able success.
Mrs. Eddy secured a divorce from
DR.. Patterson and in 1877 married
DR.. Asa. C. Eddy, one of her early
students in Christian Science, who
died in 1882. For some years Mrs.
Eddy taught Christian Science in
Lynn. In 1881 she chartered the
Massachusetts Metaphysical College
in Boston. The charter for the first
Christian Science church was OBJ
tanned in 1879 and in that year Mrs.
Eddy was called to become the pas
tor of the church. She was ordain-
ed in 1881, although she had preach
ed five wears previously,