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Show IS. EDMIS DEAD FOUNDER AND LEADER OF THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH SUCCUMBS TO PNEUMONIA. Surrounded by Members of Her Household House-hold When the End Came, But No Final Message Was Left to Her Followers. Boston. Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, discoverer and founder of the Christian Science, is dead. Announcement An-nouncement of the passing of tho venerable ven-erable leader, which occurred lato Saturday Sat-urday night at her home at Chestnut Hill, was made nt the morning service of tho Mother church in this city Sunday. Sun-day. "Natural causes," explained the death, nccofdlng to Dr. George L. West, a district medical examiner, who was summoned a few hours after Mrs. Eddy pnssed away. Later Dr. West added that the more immediate cause probably was pneumonia. The news of Mrs. Eddy's death was mndo known simultaneously by Judge Clifford P. Smith, first render of tho Mother church, at the close of the. morning service, and by Alfred Fnrlow of the Christian Science publication committee, In n statement to the press. "She had been Indisposed for about nine days," said Mr. Farlow's statement, state-ment, "but had been up nnd dressed, nnd ns lato as Thursday transacted some business with one of the officials of the church. She took her daily afternoon aft-ernoon drive until two days heforo death. Saturday night she fell quietly asleep nnd those around her could nt first hardly realize that sho had gone. Her thought was clear until tho last, and she left no final messages. "No physician was In attendance, but she had the assistance of students who comprised her household. Mrs. Eddy was 89 years old. Sho was married three times, but divorce severed ono of these unions. A fall on the Ice, from which she Bald she recovered In one day, led to her promulgation of Christian Science. At this period sho had become considerably con-siderably impressed by tho teachings of Dr. Qulnby, a mesmerist, although Bhe afterward denounced them. By degrees Christian Science grew until It spread ovor the civilized globe Mrs. Eddy will probably bo burled at Tllton, N. II. Her son, Georgo W. Glover, Is expected to start a light for her estate, although It Is reported ho compromised former litigation by accepting ac-cepting a trust fund of $250,000. Her adopted son, Dr. E. J. Foster Eddy, Is not expected to mako any legal claim for her millions. Formor Senator Chandler, Mrs Eddy's counsel, estimates her fortune at $2,000,000, and says ho believes It was all bequeathed to Christian Science |