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Show MONEY GOES TO CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH The long-drawn-out fight over the estate of Mrs. Mary Baker G Eddy has been ended by the natural heirs 01 , the founder of Christian Science Join-1 ing with the trustees of the church in proposed decrees entered in several Courts involved Mrs. Eddy died at Newton. Mass., December 4 1910. Her will, which disposed of an estate of about 2 E00 000. left approximately 2 000,000 in trust to the First Church of the Christian Chris-tian Science of Boston. Of the two sons who. a year before her death, had received from Mrs. Eddy $:".".-000 $:".".-000 in satisfaction Of all claims against her estate, attacked the bill in January of 1911. invoking statutes of New Hampshire and Massachusetts which limit hequeBls to churches to sums returning annual incomes of not more than $r000 and $2000 in the respective re-spective states. Eventually the question ques-tion of the validity of the will reached reach-ed the supreme court of both states. In New Hampshire the will was up-held. up-held. The supreme court of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts ruled that the 52.000,000 bequest be-quest could noi be received by the mother church, hut at the same time declared thai the will of the benefactor bene-factor should be respected. The amicable agreement no doubl leaves most of the estate with the church, and that Is as it should be. Mrs Eddy obtained her wealth through the liberal contributions and offerings oi her religious followers, aDd in all fairness the church, representing repre-senting those who so liberally gave of their worldly possessions, should be the greater beneficiary. |