Article January 7, 1911 Issue

The public may well heed the very useful and desirable...

Saratogian

[Saratogian, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.]

The public may well heed the very useful and desirable lesson emphasized at the recent funeral of Mrs. Eddy, Founder and Leader of the Christian Science church—that of simplicity and lack of show and ostentation at such ceremonies. Mrs. Eddy was the Leader of a following of many hundreds of thousands of persons. To her as the Founder of their religious belief they naturally gave great love and veneration. Naturally they would desire to show at her death some measure of their grief and sentiment. The opportunity was presented for much of display and ceremony and fulsome tribute. But it was not utilized. On the contrary, there was no parading of grief, no array of eulogy disbursers, no costly ostentation, and little of the outward show of paraded grief and funeral trappings.

All of which was eminently sensible and proper. The average funeral eulogy is a farce. The usual display at such a time is grossly out of place. A burden of debt is habitually incurred that is wrong in every sense and often a great hardship to those who are directly concerned in meeting it. Such display and expense assuage in no way the sorrow of mourners or the peace of the departed. If Christian Science teaches the more sensible way, it is doing a great service to humanity.

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