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Show BURIAL Of MR&EDDY Seivices Simple and Only a Select Few at the Grave Boston, Dec. S. Unusual simplicity marked the laying away today of tho j body of Mrs. Baker Eddy, the founder of the Christian Science church. j The sun streamed Into tho rooms ! of the mansion w hich tops Chest uut ! hill. No curtain was drawn except a couple of thin rose-colored draperies ' In the southeast part, where the body of Mrs. Eddy lay In a bronze coffin. Scattered about In tho other parlors, par-lors, tho hall, the dining room and on thy second floor were perhaps 150 persons. Judge Clifford B Smirh. first reader read-er of the Motner church, read selections selec-tions from the scriptures and corelnt-; ed passafs fiom ''Science and Health i with the Key to the Scriptures," and i then, pausing for n full mlnut for . a silent prayer, led tho little gathering In the audible repetition of tho . "Lord's Prayer." Mrs. Carroll Holt Powers, the sec- ond reader of the Mother church, clos- ; ed the eighteen minute service at the ou&e by reading Mrs. Eddy's "Moth- i er's Evening Prayer." I The funeral services at the Chester j Hill home were simple. There were about 120 persons present. At 11 o'clock all were In the residence, ready for the first words from Judge ' Clifford P. Smith, first reader of tho mother church, who conducted the . services. The caskel of bronze containing the J body of Mrs, Eddy was closed, Mrs. i Eddy's son and her grandchildren and her adopted son having seen her face i yesterday afternoon. In the rear Judge Smith wa6 stationed sta-tioned Those Invited to the sen ices ' were In the hall, the front parlor and the library to tho right of the entrance. en-trance. Grouped on the second floor at the head of tho wide staircase wero Mrs. Eddy's family, her relatives and members of her household Among those in attendance were Mrs. Eddy's son, George Washington i Glover of Lead, S. D.; his daughter, ! .Mary Baker Glover, and his son, , George Washington Glover, Jr.; Dr. j E. J. Foster of Waterbury, Vt.; Mrs. , Eddy's adopted son, and other iela- tlves. Including General Henry M. Ha- . ker of Bow, N. H , Mrs. Eddv's cous- , in; John B. Baker of New York, another an-other cousin of Mrs. Eddy, and his son Rufus; Calvin A. Frye, Mis. Laura Lau-ra Sargent, Adam II. Dickey, the Rev. I. C. Tomlinson, Mr. and Mrs. William ' H. Ralhven and Mrs Martha Wilcox, ' member of Mrs. Eddy's household. The casket was carried to the hearse, aud the journey to Mount Au- . burn cemetery was begun. The honorary pall bearers were: Hon. John Li. Bates of Boston, Edward Ed-ward P. Bates of Syracuse, Arthur Brisbane of New York, Judge Charles j R. Coming of Concord, N. 11- Frederick Fred-erick Dixon of London, Hon. Samuel J. Elder of Boston, Mayor Charles E. Hatfield of New lon,-Mass., William B. Johnson of Boston, Albert Metcalf of Boston and General Frank S. Strcct-er Strcct-er of Concord. Tho active pall bearers were: Bliss Knapp, William Farlow, .las. A. Neale .Iewis C. Strang, Rev. William Wil-liam P. McKenzle. Thomas W Hat-ton. Hat-ton. John C. Lalhrop and George H. KInter of Chicago. There was no service at the receiving receiv-ing vault other than the reading of tho twenty-third psalm and the last verse In Jude bv Judge Smith. The casket was then taken in charge by the pall bearers, the vault was sealed and a guard will j,0 maintained main-tained until a mausoleum has been built on the plot chosen for tho final resting place of the body. The management of the cemetery I closed the gates before the arrival ' of the carriages and excluded the i grounds to all who wre not of the funeral fu-neral party. |