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Show MRS. MARY BAKER EDDY'S DEATH. Tlie death of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, head and founder of Christian Science, closes the earthly career of a most remarkable woman. No woman of modern times commanded a following as numerous or as devoted as Mrs. Eddy. The life story of Mrs. Eddy is, in some particulars, almost beyond be-yond belief. Blary Eaker was a delicate child, the daughter of a New Hampshire farmer. Up to- the time of her discovery, dis-covery, or promulgation, of Christian Science, she was frail and nervous. Her new thought seemed to inspire her. The mind, trained to dominate the body, won a remarkable mastery and, no doubt, this helped to prolong her life far beyond the years allotted by nature at the time of her birth, and this we say without attempting attempt-ing to analyze the real merit of her religion. Mrs. Eddy was a wonderfully persistent worker and a most consummate con-summate organizer and leader of men and women. Beginning without with-out resources, other than her own fertility of mind and unconquerable unconquer-able will, she established a new religion, and did the foundation work so thoroughly as to give to the world a religious body which promises prom-ises to endure and to continue to "win adherents in all parts of the world. The demonstration of the Divine power within us and the triumph tri-umph of Truth were Mrs. Eddy's key-note principles upon which she built the Christian Science church. The severest criticism of her religion re-ligion was that, while the basic truth was inspiring and helpful, the idea was carried to the extreme in "Science and Health" and a faith was demanded beyond the reasoning powers of a devotee, but that same objection is directed against all religion. The death of Mrs. Eddy might be accepted as proof that the greatest exponent of her religion was unequal to the task of overcoming overcom-ing the frailties of earth and, therefore, that Christian Science has been demonstrated to be a contradiction, yet this is not the view taken by Mrs. Eddy's followers, as, on the morning after her death, the announcement an-nouncement was made that the leader had simply "passed from our sight." Her foster son said: "I was not only not expecting Mrs. Eddy to pass away, but I was looking for a further demonstration of her teachings. I do not wish to criticise, but it seems to me that there was a lack of mental or spiritual support which those without her knowledge of Christian Science cannot understand. "The death of the leader may be a stumbling block to some members of the church, but the ranks are so strongly fortified that the work will be carried on without further disintegration." |