The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-12-05
NARY BAKER G.. EDDY
The Mother Of the Christian Science
Church Is Dead

Church Is Dead
Boston. Dec Mrs Mary Baker GLOW .
er Eddy. founder and leader OF Chris
tan Science. died lace last nigh at her
home in Chestnut Hill.
Natural causes explains the death.
according to DR. George I West. 4 dis
tricc medical examiner. who was sum
moned few hours after Mrs. Eddy
passed away Later DR.. West added 20
his statement by saying that the more
immediate cause was probably pn@u-
nonia.
Her life began among the Granite
foothills Of New Hampshire. Her faith
er, Mark Baker. was respected farmer
Of Bow. and a descendant OF r-yolu-
tiorary heroes while her mother was
Of Scotch ancestry. She was the young
est Of three daughters and she had TWO
brothers. She was Of delicate health
from her birth, and in her childhood is
said TO have perpleXed her father by
sage sayings and grave doins$. Her
education in little schools and later at
the Pmbrove Academy. was supple
mented by what she gathered from dis
cussion Of religious matters a the
family fireside. when several we'll
known clergymen called TO talk over
church matters with her father.
IN the early forties. George Wash
ington Glover. formerly Of Concord.
became associated with Samuel Baker.
the third son and as sequel Mary
Baker and he were married in 1913.
bout Chris mas. in Tilton. y. H.
The GlcverS Went south and there
the June. after her marriage. she was
left a widow.
Returning to New Hampshire. she
gave birth 10 her son. George Wash
ington Glover, in September.
Mary Baker Glover spent the next
few years with her sister, Abigail. in
New Hampshire and began literary
work. with several articles on her OBJ
servations of slavery in the South. She
! also taught school. About 1850 a wave
of spiritualism spent over New Eng
land which drew her attention to some
extent After nine years of widow
hood Mrs. Eddy married DR. Daniel
Patterson. a New Hampshire dentist.
This marriage was not a happy one.
! They were divorced after twenty years.
\ notable event of Mrs. Eddy's life
| was her meeting in 1862 with Primes
Quincy. a mesmeric healer. at the in
| ternational hotel at Portland. Me.
/ Quinby, who was the son of a black
/
meeting with Mrs. Eddy a shrewd
! little man of argumentative disposition
and logged determination.
From acquaintance with him Mrs.
| Eddy became imbued with metaphysi-
cal ideas and began a career in that
direction which made her one of the
most famous of the worlds mental
| healers.
Mrs. Eddy, who was then Mrs. Pat
! terson. dwelt long under the influence
| of Quinby's mesmeric belief and ii
| came to have a great, though not SUI
preme weight in her subsequent tea CHI
| ings. Later she denounced Quinby' ;
met DDS and said:
Il discovered the science Of mind
| reading and that was enough"
| After spending two years in Port
land. Mrs. Patterson rejoined her hus-
band in Lynn, where she lived five
years. continuing her study of meta
physics. While there, she suffered {
fall on the ice which the doctor sale
was severe, but from which she re
covered, she said. in one night. IF wa:
this incident that led directly to th'
pronunciation of her discovery of Chris
tian Science.
The little house on Broad street il
Lynn where she lived at this time is
mecca of Christian Science pilgrim
from all over the world today. 1t wa
IN 1875. nine years after the discover.
that the first edition of Science am
Health was published.
In 1877. four years after her separa
ton from Mr. Patterson the founder o
tthe new belief was married to Asa Gil
bert Eddy. In the interval she ha
been admitted TO the CONGREGATIONS
!, denomination and baptized.
Mrs Eddy established the Massa
chusetts Metaphysical College in Bos
ton in 1881. Her teachings We're TAX
en- up and accepted at first by feN
followers and time went on by
larger and larger number. until tn
denomination today extends to man
lands and numbers millions of adher
ents Mrs. Eddy began preaching i
1919 and organized the First Church Q
Christ. Scientist. in Boston in 1876
subsequently a large edifice. was erect
cd here of which she was made pas
tor emeritus
| Mrs. Eddy took UP her residence a
Chestnut Hill Newton. in a large ston
house in 1908 and there her last day
were spent. For the past three year
she lived q quiet. peaceful life. niue
of it in seeming monotony. which he
friends said was consumed mostly ]
constant study.
, Mrs E,ddy'S literary efforts We're a.
most wholly in prose. but her poem
have been set to music as hymns an
are sung al all Christian Science meet
ings.
The gentleman who distanced all n