Purchase immediatelyEditorial Note: Although this request was sent, a plot did not end up being purchased at the time. Following Mary Baker Eddy's death on December 3, 1910, a plot for her burial was purchased in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. in Mount Auburn cemetery, Cambridge, MassachusettsAs Written:Mass., a beautiful burying lot for one. No one in particular There is no death; Life is everlasting. The evidence of the material senses is not the reality of life.
Keep this as private as possible.
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Beloved Students:
I do not believe in the propriety of a man dressing the corpse of a woman and vice
versa. But I do urge the propriety of one sex doing this for the
same sexEditorial Note: Article IX Sect. 2Mary Baker Eddy, Manual of The Mother Church 49:23Sudden Decease. Sect. 2. If a member of
49:24The Mother Church shall decease suddenly, with‐
out previous injury or illness, and the cause50:1thereof be unknown, an autopsy shall be made
by qualified experts. When it is possible the
50:3body of a female shall be prepared for burial by
one of her own sex. in the
Manual of The Mother
Church states: "When it is possible the body of a female shall
be prepared for burial by one of her own sex..
I wish to impress this as my proper sense of obsequies upon the minds of all Christian Scientists.
(Signed) Mary B. G. Eddy
Witnesses to signature
Calvin A. Frye.
Our Master's words were-- thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness.
(Signed) M. B. G. Eddy
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Attest: Calvin A. Frye,