Article February 11, 1911 Issue

The death of Mary Baker Eddy, Founder of Christian Science,...

Davenport (Ia.) Democrat and Leader

The death of Mary Baker Eddy, Founder of Christian Science, is the most notable event of the past few days. To her followers, she has simply passed on a little way ahead. They declare her presence with them as much as ever, and it is officially announced that she will have no successor as the head of the church.

It is a remarkable career that has closed. In a third of a century the church that she founded has increased until its services draw together weekly the members of more than a thousand churches, and the church is estimated to have a million adherents. There is no more remarkable fact in the past thirty-five years than this, and it was Mrs. Eddy who gave the movement its original inspiration, and who guided it to its present status. Now, say the members of the church, it has become so well established that her going will affect it not at all. "Science" will go on just as if she were still visibly at its head.

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