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We come now to the vital ninth book, the Christian Science Church
Manual. On the surface, the Manual is a code of laws for regulating the
affairs of the church. Metaphysically however it represents the
framework for demonstrating right relationship without personal control
or interference. Thus in the sequence of the sixteen books it introduces a
new dimension - that of the collective.
While virtually nothing hitherto has been published about Mrs
Eddy's other fifteen books, by contrast volumes have been written and
spoken on the subject of the Manual' - mostly on whether its provisions
have been disobeyed since 1910.
The first church organization ofl879-1889 had no manual, nor even a
building of its own. It was strictly the local Boston church, operating
under congregational control. For its internal government it had simple
by-laws, which included an early form of the six Tenets that we have
today. Mrs Eddy dissolved this church in 1889 when it had become clear
that the movement might otherwise destroy itself by rivalry and
dissension. So she wrote, "I admonish this Church after ten years of sad
experience in material bonds, to cast them off and cast her net on the
spiritual side of Christianity - to drop all material rules whereby to
regulate Christ, Christianity, and adopt alone the golden rule for
unification, progress, and a better example as the Mother Church"
(RO 323).
When they disorganized, the membership continued to assemble for
worship infor...mally without the bonds of organization and "in the bond
only of Love" (CS] Feb. 1890), and there was "a great revival of mutual
love, prosperity, and spiritual power" (Ret. 44). At the end of three
years, divine wisdom unearthed the State law that would enable Mrs
Eddy to re-form a second time without putting the church back under
human or legal control. By the end of 1892 a new First Church of Christ,
Scientist, was in being, but this time the membership had no say in its
organization or running. It was a theocratic church, and not an
organization incorporated under human law.
Individual Scientists from near and far, who felt that they could
wholeheartedly accede to this government by divine Principle and could
subscribe to the Tenets and teaching of Science and Health, applied for
membership. As yet there was no Manual, only a list of seven procedural
rules (see RO 443).
Nevertheless, with so many unregenerate rebels from the old church
now trying to get in, and with even loyal students being sometimes
mistaken, it became imperative to set out a code of conduct. Accordingly
in September 1895 the first edition of the Manual appeared. At first it was
brief and consisted mostly of articles regulating the actual working of the
church. In the first edition the Directors were permitted a certain
amount of freedom to act without seeking Mrs Eddy's approval, and the
government of the church was vested in the First Members, who also
screened applicants for membership. The growing list of First Members
was printed in the first ten editions of the Manual. Included in the list
were the twelve students whom Mrs Eddy had selected as the initial core
of members, and beside the name of each of these twelve was a star, for
they typified the twelve stars in generic man's crown (see S&H
562: 11-21). They stand for the whole human race working out the
problem of being, progressively demonstrating that the body of man is
not material or organic.
In this compound idea, or body of Christ, all are members one of
another. Because each one is totally governed by God he is spiritually
self-governed within himself, and therefore in his relationships with
others. But of course it does not work out like that in human experience
without some guidance and direction. The Manual represents the
framework of divine law reduced to moral law. It is "uniquely adapted
to form the budding thought and hedge it about with divine Love"
(p. 104). Putting it another way, the same law of God which is a law of
enablement and freedom for the obedient is a rod of restriction and
discipline for the disobedient. The DISCIPLINE section, which was only
five pages long at first, had grown to fifteen by the 88th edition in 1910-
the last edition to be published in Mrs Eddy's lifetime.
Humanly speaking, she must have been saddened to discover that it
was necessary to spell out these behavioural laws, "which I said in my
heart would never be needed - namely, laws oflimitation for a Christian
Scientist" (My 229). "The Rules and By-laws in the Manual ... were
not ... dictatorial demands, such as one person might impose on
another. They were impelled by a power not one's own" (Mis. 148; and
see Coil. 23 and 185).
With this avowal by Mrs Eddy as to the real Author of the By-laws,
we are now in a position to understand the much-discussed 'estoppel
clauses.' Because the Manual stands for the Principle of right
relationships, the clauses in it are not personal but are Principle's
devices for preventing the control of one Scientist by another.
Consequently by about 1903 the Manual incorporates twenty-nine vital
clauses which require Mrs Eddy's approval or consent - sometimes "in
her own handwriting." These 'stoppers' are principally in By-laws that
deal with the reappointment and the functions of church officers,
including the Directors, and the Trustees of the Publishing Society. *
None at all are found in the long section on Discipline, for God-governed
individual behaviour is an ongoing requirement. The estoppels make it
very clear that Mrs Eddy did not delegate authority to any body of
human beings to carryon the government or the running of her Mother
Church.
For example, when the fifth Director was appointed, a new estoppel
was written in, requiring that his successor in office be approved by the
Pastor Emeritus. Such a By-law must have been hard for the
uncomprehending to stomach. Accordingly, immediately following its
appearing, Mrs Eddy wrote in MENTAL DIGESTION (My 230), "Of this I
am sure, that each Rule and By-law in this Manual will increase the
spirituality of him who obeys it, invigorate his capacity to heal the sick, to
comfort such as mourn, and to awaken the sinner." At the same time,
because the Manual is "for the Mother Church only" (p. 104), it puts no
restrictions on Christian Science branch churches and societies. This
point is reinforced by the word 'By-law,' for a by-law is specifically a law
or ordinance dealing with matters of local or internal regulation only,
and not to be imposed on others outside one's jurisdiction.
In contrast with the limits set to The Mother Church, the Manual
specifically frees the branches from outside control. Under "Local
Self-government" (p. 70) we read, "The Mother Church... shall
assume no general official control of other churches." And under "No
Interference" (p. 73), "In Christian Science each branch church shall be
distinctly democratic in its government, and no individual, and no other
church shall interfere with its affairs."
From about 1903 onwards until 1910 the church officials made
repeated attempts either directly or through lawyers to get Mrs Eddy to
alter these estoppel clauses in favour of the Directors. But because God
was the Author of the By-laws, she was not at liberty to change them. On
the contrary, she made them even more binding: "No new Tenet or
By-Law shall be adopted, nor any Tenet or By-Law amended or
annulled, without the written consent of Mary Baker Eddy" (p. 105).
Judge Clifford P. Smith, in Permanenry of The Mother Church and Its Manual,
quotes her as saying in this context, "I have no right or desire to change
what God has directed me to do, and it remains for the church to obey
it" (p. 8). But once it became clear to her that on her passing the
Directors would override the Manual and take personal control of the
entire movement, Mrs Eddy sought her lawyer's opinion on what the
legal position would then be. Mr Elder assured her that human law
would support such annulment of the By-laws! So much for human law.
Mrs Eddy assented to this situation, content that her followers would
not then try to do the right thing for the wrong reason. She had stated
the principle in the Manual, and left it for Scientists to wake up to their
heritage. One cannot legislate for spiritual freedom. Undoubtedly she
foresaw that in God's own time Christian Science in its Science and
system would provide the means for universal spiritual self-government,
and release Christian Science from its seventy years' captivity to
material organization. Once again the church would have "to be rescued
from the grasp oflegal power, and ... be put back into the arms of Love,
if we would not be found fighting against God" (Mis. 140).
When we turn to the Manual as a book, we notice that in Mrs Eddy's
time it - alone of her works - never carried the cross and crown emblem
embossed on the cover. (It first appeared there in 1916.) Perhaps the
reason is that the book itself is a "Suffer it to be so now." In the
Christian Scientist's experience the cross would seem to reflect the
Manual disobeyed, while the crown would be its provisions obeyed, and
the student a law to himself.
In order to obey the Manual literally, one needs to understand it
spiritually - to discern its underlying scientific ideas. Only then does the
prophecy, "eternity awaits our Church Manual" (My 230), become
realistic. That dimension of eternity is upon us now - in the 1 980s - for
within the last few years a remarkable spiritual discovery has been made
that translates its contents from rules and regulations into timeless ideas
of Science. The discovery is set out in a small but dynamic book by W.
Gordon Brown, Science and Health and the Church Manual, where he
explains the significance of the latter's structure. The Manual's Table of
Contents shows that the By-laws are given in precisely sixteen main
headings. When examined spiritually, and going beneath the surface
appearance of church regulations, these sixteen are found to "relate in
essence with the spiritual realities of being taught in the first sixteen
chapters of the textbook." This correlation must be more than mere
chance, for the parallels are so close, so illuminating, and so liberating in
their effect. Instead of having to regard the Manual as a somewhat dusty
code of rules, it becomes alive with the same fundamental themes of
Christianly scientific being that we find in the textbook and the Other
Writings.
So we are brought quite naturally to observe this ninth book's
correspondence with the ninth chapter of Science and Health, CREATION.
Throughout that chapter runs the theme, "As mortals drop off their
mental swaddling-clothes, thought expands into expression"
(S&H 255). It is concerned with the expansion of consciousness, with
the idea that creation is infinite, boundless, non-organic. Here is the
same message as the Manual, which also is designed to enable the
student to evolve beyond "laws of limitation for a Christian Scientist."
Perceived personally, and as interpreted by human law, the Manual is
synonymous with the limitations of organized religion; perceived as Mrs
Eddy left it, it stands for the liberty of self-government under Principle,
and the realization that church is not bounded or compressed within
narrow limits.
Another strong point in the CREATION chapter is, "As mortals gain
more correct views of God and man, multitudinous objects of creation,
which before were invisible, will become visible" (S&H 264). The
Manual too gives visible expression to the invisible system whereby God
governs His own universe including man. In the next book, Miscellaneous
Writings, we see these absolute laws of God made practical and visible in
ethics.

Mary Baker Eddy's Other Writings
'You will find me in my books'

“To be a Christian Scientist involves being changed; it demands an inner transformation, a renovation of the self, in order to become a transparency for the divine. This vital work is done by spiritualization of consciousness, but it is done in the area of life and of relationships, and it is on this area of experience that the Other Writings concentrate. Mrs Eddy herself considered these writings 'essential to preparing Christian Scientists for the full understanding of Science and Health'” (Orcutt 78).

"The spiritual beauty and practicality of these inspired books have made them beloved to generations of Christian Scientists, yet strangely few students today, a century later, know much about their origin, or regard them in their wholeness. Yet this is critical to appreciating the value of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy’s flagship which is the Textbook of Christian Science. Understanding this framework is necessary in order to approach the ever-unfoldment that takes place when a serious study of Christian Science is undertaken. With this background information the student can read intelligently each piece in its setting, The message of the writings is enormously enhanced once he understands their occasion.
See Mary Baker Eddy's Other Writings by John L. Morgan (1984)
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EIGHTY-NINTH EDITION

MANUAL OF THE
MOTHER CHURCH
THE FIRST CHURCH OF
CHRIST SCIENTIST, IN
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

M A R Y B A K E R E D D Y

Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science and
Author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

Signature of MBE.

Published by

The First Church of Christ, Scientist,

in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

The facsimile of the signature of Mary Baker Eddy (not used
here) and the design of the Cross and Crown are trademarks
of the Christian Science Board of Directors in U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office and in other countries

Copyright, 1895
By Christian Science Board of Directors
Copyright renewed, 1923
Copyright, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1901
By James A. Neal and Thomas W. Hatten
Copyright renewed, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929
Copyright, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1908
By Mary Baker G. Eddy
Copyright renewed, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1936
All rights reserved
... Printed in the United States of America

1 EXTRACT FROM A LETTER IN "MISCEL-
LANEOUS WRITINGS" By Mary Baker Eddy

3 The Rules and By-Laws in the Manual of The First
Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, originated not in
solemn conclave as in ancient Sanhedrim. They were
6 not arbitrary opinions nor dictatorial demands, such as
one person might impose on another. They were im-
pelled by a power not one's own, were written at differ-
9 ent dates, and as the occasion required. They sprang
from necessity, the logic of events, — from the immedi-
ate demand for them as a help that must be supplied to
12 maintain the dignity and defense of our Cause; hence
their simple, scientific basis, and detail so requisite to
demonstrate genuine Christian Science, and which will
15 do for the race what absolute doctrines destined for future
generations might not accomplish.

Table of Contents

15 TENETS
17 HISTORICAL SKETCH
21 LIST OF CHURCH OFFICERS

Church By-Laws

CHURCH OFFICERS

NAMES, ELECTION, AND DUTIES. ART. I
25 Names
25 President
25 Clerk and Treasurer
26 Readers
26 Directors
27 Church Business
27 Publishing Buildings
27 Trusteeships and Syndicates
28 Duties of Church Officers

READERS OF THE MOTHER CHURCH. ART. II
29 Election
30 Eligibility
30 Removal
30 First Reader's Residence

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DUTIES OF READERS OF THE MOTHER CHURCH
AND OF ITS BRANCH CHURCHES. ART. III
31 Moral Obligations
31 First Readers' Duties
31 Suitable Selections
32 Order of Reading
32 Naming Book and Author
32 Readers in Branch Churches
32 Enforcement of By-Laws
33 A Reader not a Leader

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP

QUALIFICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP. ART. IV
34 Believe in Christian Science
34 Free from Other Denominations
35 Children when Twelve Years Old

APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP. ART. V
35 Students of the College
35 Other Students
36 Students' Pupils
36 Exceptional Cases
36 Addressed to Clerk
37 Endorsing Applications
37 Notice of Rejection

RECOMMENDATION AND ELECTION. ART. VI
37 Pupils of Normal Students
37 Members of The Mother Church
38 Election

PROBATIONARY MEMBERSHIP. ART. VII
38 Members who once Withdrew
39 Members once Dismissed
39 Ineligible for Probation

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DISCIPLINE

GUIDANCE OF MEMBERS. ART. VIII
40 A Rule for Motives and Acts
40 To be Read in Church
41 Christ Jesus the Ensample
41 Daily Prayer
42 Prayer in Church
42 Alertness to Duty
42 One Christ
42 No Malpractice
43 Formulas Forbidden
43 No Adulterating Christian Science
43 No Incorrect Literature
44 Obnoxious Books
44 Per Capita Tax
44 Church Periodicals
44 Church Organizations Ample
45 Joining Another Society
45 Forbidden Membership
45 Officious Members
45 Legal Titles
46 Illegal Adoption
46 Use of Initials "C.S."
46 Practitioners and Patients
47 Duty to Patients
47 Testimonials
47 Charity to All
48 Uncharitable Publications
48 The Golden Rule
48 Numbering the People
48 Our Church Edifices
49 No Monopoly
49 Christian Science Nurse

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MARRIAGE AND DECEASE. ART. IX
49 A Legal Ceremony
49 Sudden Decease

DEBATING IN PUBLIC. ART. X
50 No Unauthorized Debating

COMPLAINTS. ART. XI
50 Departure from Tenets
50 Violation of By-Laws
51 Violation of Christian Fellowship
51 Preliminary Requirement
51 Authority
52 Members in Mother Church Only
52 Working Against the Cause
53 No Unchristian Conduct
53 Not to Learn Hypnotism
53 Publications Unjust
54 The Mother Church of Christ, Scientist, Tenets
54 Special Offense
54 Members of Branch Churches

TEACHERS. ART. XII
55 Probation
55 Misteaching

MEETINGS

REGULAR AND SPECIAL MEETINGS. ART. XIII
56 Annual Meetings
56 Meetings of Board of Directors
57 Called only by the Clerk

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CHURCH SERVICES

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PASTOR. ART. XIV
58 Ordination
58 The Lesson-Sermon

READING IN PUBLIC. ART. XV
58 Announcing Author's Name

WELCOMING STRANGERS. ART. XVI
59 The Leader's Welcome
59 The Local Members' Welcome

SERVICES UNINTERRUPTED. ART. XVII
60 Continued Throughout the Year
60 Easter Observances
60 Laying a Corner Stone
61 Overflow Meetings

COMMUNION. ART. XVIII
61 No More Communion
61 Communion of Branch Churches

MUSIC IN THE CHURCH. ART. XIX
61 Soloist and Organist

SUNDAY SCHOOL. ART. XX
62 The Sunday School
62 Teaching the Children
62 Subject for Lessons

READING ROOMS ART. XXI

63 Establishment
63 Librarian
64 Literature in Reading Rooms

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RELATION AND DUTIES OF
MEMBERS TO PASTOR EMERITUS ART. XXII

64 The Title of Mother Changed
65 A Member not a Leader
65 Obedience Required
65 Understanding Communications
66 Interpreting Communications
66 Reading and Attesting Letters
66 Unauthorized Reports
67 Private Communications
67 Unauthorized Legal Action
67 Duty to God
67 Opportunity for Serving the Leader
68 Location
68 Agreement Required
69 Incomplete Term of Service
69 Help
69 Students with Mrs. Eddy
69 Mrs. Eddy's Room
70 Pastor Emeritus to be Consulted

THE MOTHER CHURCH
AND BRANCH CHURCHES ART. XXIII

70 Local Self-government
70 Titles
71 Mother Church Unique
71 Tenets Copyrighted
72 Manual
72 Organizing Churches
72 Requirements for Organizing Branch Churches
73 Privilege of Members
73 No Close Communion
73 No Interference
74 Teachers' and Practitioners' Offices
74 Recognition

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GUARDIANSHIP OF
CHURCH FUNDS ART. XXIV

75 Church Edifice a Testimonial
75 Financial Situation
76 Report of Directors
76 Finance Committee
77 God's Requirement
77 Provision for the Future
78 Debt and Duty
78 Emergencies
79 Committee on Business

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
PUBLISHING SOCIETY ART. XXV

79 Board of Trustees
80 Disposal of Funds
80 Vacancies in Trusteeship
80 Editors and Manager
81 Suitable Employees
81 Periodicals
81 Rule of Conduct
81 Books to be Published
82 Removal of Cards

TEACHING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

TEACHERS. ART. XXVI
83 Motive in Teaching
83 Care of Pupils
84 Defense against Malpractice
84 Number of Pupils
84 Pupil's Tuition
84 Associations
84 A Single Field of Labor
85 Caring for Pupils of Strayed Members
85 Teachers must have Certificates

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PUPILS. ART. XXVII
86 Authorized to Teach
86 Without Teachers
86 Basis for Teaching
87 Church Membership
87 Class Teaching

BOARD OF EDUCATION

ORGANIZATION. ART. XXVIII
88 Officers
88 Election
88 President not to be Consulted
89 Presidency of College

APPLICANTS AND GRADUATES. ART. XXIX
89 Normal Teachers
89 Qualifications
90 Certificates

ACTION OF THE BOARD. ART. XXX
90 Sessions
90 Special Instruction
91 Signatures
91 Remuneration and Free Scholarship
91 Surplus Funds
91 Primary Students
92 Healing Better than Teaching
92 Not Members of The Mother Church

BOARD OF LECTURESHIP

ORGANIZATION AND DUTIES. ART. XXXI
93 Election
93 Duty of Lecturers
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93 No Disruption of Branch Churches
94 Receptions
94 Circuit Lecturer

CALLS FOR LECTURES. ART. XXXII
95 From the Directors
95 From Branch Churches
95 From Societies
95 Annual Lectures
95 No Lectures by Readers
96 No Wednesday Evening Lectures
96 Lecture Fee
96 Expenses
96 Exceptional Cases

COMMITTEE ON
PUBLICATION ART. XXXIII

97 In The Mother Church
97 Duties
98 In Branch Churches
99 Appointment
100 Removal from Office
100 Case of Necessity

CHURCH-BUILDING ART. XXXIV

102 Building Committee
102 Designation of Deeds
103 The Mother Church Building

CHURCH MANUAL ART. XXXV

104 For The Mother Church Only
104 Seventy-third Edition the Authority
105 Amendment of By-Laws

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Appendix

109 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING
APPLICATIONS FOR CHURCH MEMBERSHIP

120 PRESENT ORDER OF SERVICES IN
THE MOTHER CHURCH
AND BRANCH CHURCHES

125 PRESENT ORDER OF COMMUNION
SERVICES IN BRANCH CHURCHES

127 ORDER OF EXERCISES FOR THE
SUNDAY SCHOOL OF THE MOTHER CHURCH
AND BRANCH CHURCHES

128 DEED OF TRUST

136 DEED CONVEYING LAND
FOR CHURCH PURPOSES

Tenets

of The Mother Church
The First Church of Christ, Scientist
1 To be signed by those uniting with The First
Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.

3 1. As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired
Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal
Life.
6 2. We acknowledge and adore one supreme and
infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ;
the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in
9 God's image and likeness.
3. We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in
the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding
12 that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is
punished so long as the belief lasts.
4. We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evi-
15 dence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's
unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower;

From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary
18 Baker Eddy.

16 Tenets of The Mother Church

1 and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ,
through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the
3 Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming
sin and death.
5. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus
6 and his resurrection served to uplift faith to under-
stand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and
the nothingness of matter.
9 6. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray
for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ
Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do
12 unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.

MARY BAKER EDDY

Historical Sketch

1 In the spring of 1879, a little band of earnest
seekers after Truth went into deliberations over
3 forming a church without creeds, to be called the
"Church of Christ, Scientist." They were mem-
bers of evangelical churches, and students of Mrs.
6 Mary Baker Eddy in Christian Science, and were
known as "Christian Scientists."
At a meeting of the Christian Scientist Association,
9 April 12, 1879, on motion of Mrs. Eddy, it was
voted, — To organize a church designed to com-
memorate the word and works of our Master, which
12 should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost
element of healing.
Mrs. Eddy was appointed on the committee to
15 draft the Tenets of The Mother Church — the chief
corner stone whereof is, that Christian Science, as
taught and demonstrated by our Master, casts out
18 error, heals the sick, and restores the lost Israel:

18 Historical Sketch

1 for "the stone which the builders rejected, the same
is become the head of the corner."
3 The charter for the Church was obtained June,
1879,* and the same month the members, twenty-six
in number, extended a call to Mary Baker Eddy
6 to become their pastor. She accepted the call,
and was ordained A. D. 1881. Although walking
through deep waters, the little Church went steadily
9 on, increasing in numbers, and at every epoch
saying,
"Hitherto hath the Lord helped us."
12 On the twenty-third day of September, 1892, at
the request of Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, twelve
of her students and Church members met and re-
15 organized, under her jurisdiction, the Christian
Science Church and named it, THE FIRST CHURCH
OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST.
18 At this meeting twenty others of Mrs. Eddy's
students and members of her former Church were
elected members of this Church, — those with others
21 that have since been elected were known as "First
Members." The Church Tenets, Rules, and By-
Laws, as prepared by Mrs. Eddy, were adopted. A
24 By-Law adopted March 17, 1903, changed the
title of "First Members" to "Executive Members."
(On July 8, 1908, the By-Laws pertaining to "Ex-
27 ecutive Members" were repealed.)

Historical Sketch 19

1 THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, IN BOS-
TON, MASS., is designed to be built on the Rock,
3 Christ; even the understanding and demonstration
of divine Truth, Life, and Love, healing and saving
the world from sin and death; thus to reflect in some
6 degree the Church Universal and Triumphant.

* Steps were taken to promote the Church of Christ,
Scientist, in April, May and June; formal organization was
9 accomplished and the charter obtained in August, 1879.

1 CHURCH OFFICERS

Rev. MARY BAKER EDDY
3 Pastor Emeritus

Christian Science Board of Directors
Name 1
6 Name 2
Name 3
Name 4
9 Name 5

Presidents Name
President

12 First Reader’s Name
First Reader
Conducts services and reads from
15 the Christian Science textbook,
"SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE
SCRIPTURES" by Mary Baker Eddy

18 Second Reader’s Name
Second Reader
Reads from the SCRIPTURES

21 Clerk’s Name
Clerk
175 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

24 Treasurer’s Name
Treasurer
175 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

27 Issued every year with new officers June to June

Church By-Laws

1 CHURCH OFFICERS

Article I

3 NAMES, ELECTION, AND DUTIES

Names. SECTION 1. The Church officers shall
consist of the Pastor Emeritus, a Board of Direc-
6 tors, a President, a Clerk, a Treasurer, and two
Readers.
President. SECT. 2. The President shall be
9 elected, subject to the approval of the Pastor
Emeritus, by the Board of Directors¹ on Mon-
day preceding the annual meeting of the
12 Church. The President shall hold office for one
year, and the same person is eligible for elec-
tion but once in three years.
15 Clerk and Treasurer. SECT. 3. The term of
office for the Clerk and the Treasurer of this

¹See under "Deed of Trust" for incorporation of the "Christian
18 Science Board of Directors."

26 Church By-Laws. Art. I

1 Church (also for the editors and the manager
of The Christian Science Publishing Society,
3 and the manager of the general Committee on
Publication in Boston) is one year each, dating
from the time of election to office. Incumbents
6 who have served one year or more, may be re-
elected, or new officers elected, at the annual
meeting held for this purpose, by a unanimous
9 vote of the Christian Science Board of Direc-
tors and the consent of the Pastor Emeritus
given in her own handwriting.
12 Readers. SECT. 4. Every third year Read-
ers shall be elected in The Mother Church by
the Board of Directors, which shall inform the
15 Pastor Emeritus of the names of its candidates
before they are elected; and if she objects, said
candidates shall not be chosen. The Directors
18 shall fix the salaries of the Readers.
Directors. SECT. 5. The Christian Science
Board of Directors shall consist of five members.
21 They shall fill a vacancy occurring on that Board
after the candidate is approved by the Pastor
Emeritus. A majority vote or the request of
24 Mrs. Eddy shall dismiss a member. Members
shall neither report the discussions of this Board,
nor those with Mrs. Eddy.

Church Officers 27

1 Church Business. SECT. 6. The business
of The Mother Church shall be transacted by
3 its Christian Science Board of Directors. The
manager of the general Committee on Publi-
cation in the United States shall order no spe-
6 cial action to be taken by said Committee that
is not named in the Manual of this Church
without consulting with the full Board of Di-
9 rectors of The Mother Church and receiving
the written consent of said Board.
Publishing Buildings. SECT. 7. It shall be
12 the duty of the Christian Science Board of Di-
rectors to provide a suitable building for the
publication of The Christian Science Journal,
15 Christian Science Sentinel, Der Herold der
Christian Science, and all other Christian Sci-
ence literature published by The Christian Science
18 Publishing Society. It shall also be the duty
of the Christian Science Board of Directors to
provide suitable rooms, conveniently and pleas-
21 antly located in the same building, for the pub-
lication and sale of the books of which Mary
Baker Eddy is, or may be, the author, and of
24 other literature connected therewith.
Trusteeships and Syndicates. SECT. 8.
Boards of Trustees and Syndicates may be

28 Church By-Laws. Art. I

1 formed by The Mother Church, subject to the
approval of the Pastor Emeritus.
3 Duties of Church Officers. SECT. 9. Law
constitutes government, and disobedience to the
laws of The Mother Church must ultimate in
6 annulling its Tenets and By-Laws. Without a
proper system of government and form of ac-
tion, nations, individuals, and religion are un-
9 protected; hence the necessity of this By-Law
and the warning of Holy Writ: "That servant,
which knew his lord's will, and prepared not
12 himself, neither did according to his will, shall
be beaten with many stripes."
It is the duty of the Christian Science Board of
15 Directors to watch and make sure that the offi-
cers of this Church perform the functions of
their several offices promptly and well. If an
18 officer fails to fulfil all the obligations of his
office, the Board of Directors shall immediately
call a meeting and notify this officer either to
21 resign his place or to perform his office faith-
fully; then failing to do either, said officer shall
be dismissed from this Church, and his dismis-
24 sal shall be written on the Church records.
It is the duty of any member of this Church,
and especially of one who has been or who is

Church Officers 29

1 the First Reader of a church, to inform the
Board of Directors of the failure of the Com-
3 mittee on Publication or of any other officer in
this Church to perform his official duties. A
Director shall not make known the name of the
6 complainant.
If the Christian Science Board of Directors fails
to fulfil the requirements of this By-Law, and a
9 member of this Church or the Pastor Emeritus
shall complain thereof to the Clerk and the com-
plaint be found valid, the Directors shall resign
12 their office or perform their functions faithfully.
Failing to do thus, the Pastor Emeritus shall ap-
point five suitable members of this Church to fill
15 the vacancy. The salary of the members of the
Board of Directors shall be at present two thou-
sand five hundred dollars each annually.

18 Article II

READERS OF THE MOTHER CHURCH

Election. SECTION 1. The Readers for The
21 Mother Church shall be a man and a woman,
one to read the BIBLE, and one to read SCIENCE
AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES.

30 Church By-Laws. Art. II

1 Eligibility. SECT. 2. The Directors shall
select intelligible Readers who are exemplary
3 Christians and good English scholars. They
must be members of The Mother Church.
Removal. SECT. 3. If a Reader in The
6 Mother Church be found at any time inadequate
or unworthy, he or she shall be removed from
office by a majority vote of the Board of Di-
9 rectors and the consent of the Pastor Emeritus,
and the vacancy supplied.
First Reader's Residence. SECT. 4. Unless
12 Mrs. Eddy requests otherwise, the First Reader
of The Mother Church shall occupy, during his
term of Readership, the house of the Pastor
15 Emeritus, No. 385 Commonwealth Avenue, Bos-
ton. The Board of Directors shall pay from
the Church funds the taxes and rent on this
18 property; the Board shall attend to the insur-
ance before it expires, suitably furnish the
house, and keep the property in good repair, so
21 long as Mrs. Eddy does not occupy the house
herself and the occupants are satisfactory to
her.

1 Article III

DUTIES OF READERS OF THE MOTHER
3 CHURCH AND OF ITS BRANCH CHURCHES

Moral Obligations. SECTION 1. The Readers
of The Mother Church and of all its branch
6 churches must devote a suitable portion of their
time to preparation for the reading of the Sunday
lesson, — a lesson on which the prosperity of
9 Christian Science largely depends. They must
keep themselves unspotted from the world, —
uncontaminated with evil, — that the mental at-
12 mosphere they exhale shall promote health and
holiness, even that spiritual animus so universally
needed.
15 First Readers' Duties. SECT. 2. It shall be
the duty of the First Readers to conduct the
principal part of the Sunday services, and the
18 Wednesday evening meetings.
Suitable Selections. SECT. 3. The First
Readers shall read, as a part of the Wednesday
21 evening services, selections from the SCRIPTURES,
and from SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO
THE SCRIPTURES.

32 Church By-Laws. Art. III

1 Order of Reading. SECT. 4. The First Read-
ers in the Christian Science churches shall read
3 the correlative texts in SCIENCE AND HEALTH
WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES; and the Second
Readers shall read the BIBLE texts. The readings
6 from the SCRIPTURES shall precede the readings
from SCIENCE AND HEALTH. The Readers shall
not read from copies or manuscripts, but from
9 the books.
Naming Book and Author. SECT. 5. The
Readers of SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO
12 THE SCRIPTURES, before commencing to read
from this book, shall distinctly announce the full
title of the book and give the author's name.
15 Such announcement shall be made but once
during the lesson.
Readers in Branch Churches. SECT. 6.
18 These Readers shall be members of The Mother
Church. They shall read understandingly and
be well educated. They shall make no remarks
21 explanatory of the LESSON-SERMON at any time,
but they shall read all notices and remarks that
may be printed in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE QUAR-
24 TERLY. This By-Law applies to Readers in all
the branch churches.
Enforcement of By-Laws. SECT. 7. It shall

Church Officers 33

1 be the duty of every member of The Mother
Church, who is a First Reader in a Church of
3 Christ, Scientist, to enforce the discipline and
by-laws of the church in which he is Reader.
A Reader not a Leader. SECT. 8. The Church
6 Reader shall not be a Leader, but he shall main-
tain the Tenets, Rules, and discipline of the
Church. A Reader shall not be a President of
9 a church.

34 Church By-Laws Art. IV

1 CHURCH MEMBERSHIP

Article IV

3 QUALIFICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP

Believe in Christian Science. SECTION 1.
To become a member of The Mother Church,
6 The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Bos-
ton, Mass., the applicant must be a believer in
the doctrines of Christian Science, according to
9 the platform and teaching contained in the Chris-
tian Science textbook, SCIENCE AND HEALTH
WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, by Rev. Mary
12 Baker Eddy. The BIBLE, together with SCIENCE
AND HEALTH and other works by Mrs. Eddy,
shall be his only textbooks for self-instruction
15 in Christian Science, and for teaching and prac-
tising metaphysical healing.
Free from Other Denominations. SECT. 2.
18 This Church will receive a member of another
Church of Christ, Scientist, but not a church
member from a different denomination until that
21 membership is dissolved.

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1 Children when Twelve Years Old. SECT. 3.
Children who have arrived at the age of twelve
3 years, who are approved, and whose applications
are countersigned by one of Mrs. Eddy's loyal stu-
dents, by a Director, or by a student of the Board
6 of Education, may be admitted to membership
with The Mother Church.

Article V

9 APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP

Students of the College. SECTION 1. Appli-
cations for membership with The Mother Church
12 from students of the Massachusetts Metaphysical
College who studied with Rev. Mary Baker Eddy,
shall be signed by the Christian Science Board
15 of Directors as evidence of the loyalty of the
applicants.
Other Students. SECT. 2. Applicants for
18 membership who have not studied Christian Sci-
ence with Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, can unite
with this Church only by approval from students
21 of Mrs. Eddy, loyal to the teachings of the text-
book, SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE

36 Church By-Laws Art. V

1 SCRIPTURES, or from members of The Mother
Church, as provided in Article VI, Sect. 2, of
3 these By-Laws.
Students' Pupils. SECT. 3. Applications for
membership with The Mother Church, coming
6 from pupils of loyal students who have taken
the Primary or Normal Course at the Massa-
chusetts Metaphysical College or in the Board
9 of Education, or from pupils of those who have
passed an examination by the Board of Educa-
tion, shall have the approval and signature of
12 their teachers, except in such cases as are pro-
vided for in Sect. 4 of this Article.
Exceptional Cases. SECT. 4. Loyal Chris-
15 tian Scientists whose teachers are deceased, ab-
sent, or disloyal, — or those whose teachers, for
insufficient cause, refuse to endorse their appli-
18 cations for membership with The Mother Church,
— can apply to the Clerk of this Church, and
present to him a recommendation signed by three
21 members thereof in good standing, after which,
the unanimous vote of the Board of Directors
may admit said applicant to membership.
24 Addressed to Clerk. SECT. 5. All applica-
tions for membership must be addressed to the
Clerk of the Church.

Church Membership 37

1 Endorsing Applications. SECT. 6. A mem-
ber of The Mother Church shall not endorse nor
3 countersign an application for membership there-
with until after the blank has been properly filled
out by an applicant. A member who violates
6 this By-Law shall be disciplined.
Notice of Rejection. SECT. 7. If an applica-
tion for membership with The First Church of
9 Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., is rejected, the
Clerk of the Church shall send to the applicant a
notice of such rejection; but neither the Clerk
12 nor the Church shall be obliged to report the
cause for rejection.

Article VI

15 RECOMMENDATION AND ELECTION

Pupils of Normal Students. SECTION 1.
One Normal student cannot recommend the pupil
18 of another Normal student, so long as both are
loyal to their Leader and to the Christian Science
textbook, except as provided for in Article V,
21 Sect. 4.
Members of The Mother Church. SECT. 2.
Only members of The Mother Church are quali-

38 Church By-Laws Art. VII

1 fied to approve for membership individuals who
are known to them to be Christians, and faith-
3 ful, loyal students of the textbook, SCIENCE AND
HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES. If the
approver is not a loyal student of Mrs. Eddy, a
6 Director of this Church, or a student of the Board
of Education who holds a degree, the application
must be countersigned by one of these.
9 Election. SECT. 3. Applicants for member-
ship in this Church, whose applications are
correctly prepared, may be elected by majority
12 vote of the Christian Science Board of Direc-
tors at the semi-annual meetings held for this
purpose.

15 Article VII

PROBATIONARY MEMBERSHIP

Members who once Withdrew. SECTION 1.
18 Individuals who have heretofore been members
of this Church, or were members of the Church
of Christ, Scientist, organized in 1879 by Mary
21 Baker Eddy, but who have voluntarily with-
drawn, may be received into this Church on one
year's probation, provided they are willing and

Church Membership 39

1 anxious to live according to its requirements and
make application for membership according to
3 its By-Laws. If, at the expiration of said one
year, they are found worthy, they shall be re-
ceived into full membership, but if not found
6 worthy their applications shall be void.
Members once Dismissed. SECT. 2. A full
member or a probationary member, who has
9 been excommunicated once, and who afterward,
when sufficient time has elapsed thoroughly to
test his sincerity, gives due evidence of having
12 genuinely repented and of being radically re-
formed, shall be eligible to probationary mem-
bership upon a unanimous vote of the Christian
15 Science Board of Directors.
Ineligible for Probation. SECT. 3. If a
member has been twice notified of his excom-
18 munication, he shall not again be received into
this Church.

40 Church By-Laws Art. VIII

1 DISCIPLINE

Article VIII

3 GUIDANCE OF MEMBERS

A Rule for Motives and Acts. SECTION 1.
Neither animosity nor mere personal attachment
6 should impel the motives or acts of the members
of The Mother Church. In Science, divine Love
alone governs man; and a Christian Scientist
9 reflects the sweet amenities of Love, in rebuk-
ing sin, in true brotherliness, charitableness, and
forgiveness. The members of this Church should
12 daily watch and pray to be delivered from
all evil, from prophesying, judging, condemn-
ing, counseling, influencing or being influenced
15 erroneously.
To be Read in Church. SECT. 2. The
above Church Rule shall be read in The Mother
18 Church and in the branch churches by the First
Reader on the first Sunday of each month.
On Communion day the Church Tenets are to
21 be read.

Discipline 41

1 Christ Jesus the Ensample. SECT. 3. He
who dated the Christian era is the Ensample in
3 Christian Science. Careless comparison or irrev-
erent reference to Christ Jesus is abnormal in a
Christian Scientist, and is prohibited. When it is
6 necessary to show the great gulf between Chris-
tian Science and theosophy, hypnotism, or spirit-
ualism, do it, but without hard words. The wise
9 man saith, "A soft answer turneth away wrath."
However despitefully used and misrepresented
by the churches or the press, in return employ
12 no violent invective, and do good unto your
enemies when the opportunity occurs. A de-
parture from this rule disqualifies a member for
15 office in the Church or on the Board of Lec-
tureship, and renders this member liable to dis-
cipline and, possibly, dismissal from The Mother
18 Church.
Daily Prayer. SECT. 4. It shall be the duty
of every member of this Church to pray each
21 day: "Thy kingdom come;" let the reign of
divine Truth, Life, and Love be established in
me, and rule out of me all sin; and may Thy
24 Word enrich the affections of all mankind, and
govern them!

42 Church By-Laws Art. VIII

1 Prayer in Church. SECT. 5. The prayers in
Christian Science churches shall be offered for
3 the congregations collectively and exclusively.
Alertness to Duty. SECT. 6. It shall be the
duty of every member of this Church to defend
6 himself daily against aggressive mental sugges-
tion, and not be made to forget nor to neglect
his duty to God, to his Leader, and to mankind.
9 By his works he shall be judged, — and justified
or condemned.
One Christ. SECT. 7. In accordance with
12 the Christian Science textbooks, — the BIBLE,
and SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE
SCRIPTURES, — and in accord with all of Mrs.
15 Eddy's teachings, members of this Church shall
neither entertain a belief nor signify a belief in
more than one Christ, even that Christ whereof
18 the Scripture beareth testimony.
No Malpractice. SECT. 8. Members will not
intentionally or knowingly mentally malpractise,
21 inasmuch as Christian Science can only be prac-
tised according to the Golden Rule: "All things
whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,
24 do ye even so to them."(Matt. 7:12.)
A member of The Mother Church who men-
tally malpractises upon or treats our Leader or

Discipline 43

1 her staff without her or their consent shall be dis-
ciplined, and a second offense as aforesaid shall
3 cause the name of said member to be dropped
forever from The Mother Church.
Formulas Forbidden. SECT. 9. No member
6 shall use written formulas, nor permit his patients
or pupils to use them, as auxiliaries to teach-
ing Christian Science or for healing the sick.
9 Whatever is requisite for either is contained in
the books of the Discoverer and Founder of
Christian Science. Sometimes she may strengthen
12 the faith by a written text as no one else can.
No Adulterating Christian Science. SECT. 10.
A member of this Church shall not publish
15 profuse quotations from Mary Baker Eddy's
copyrighted works without her permission, and
shall not plagiarize her writings. This By-Law
18 not only calls more serious attention to the com-
mandment of the Decalogue, but tends to pre-
vent Christian Science from being adulterated.
21 No Incorrect Literature. SECT. 11. A mem-
ber of this Church shall neither buy, sell, nor cir-
culate Christian Science literature which is not
24 correct in its statement of the divine Principle
and rules and the demonstration of Christian
Science. Also the spirit in which the writer

44 Church By-Laws Art. VIII

1 has written his literature shall be definitely con-
sidered. His writings must show strict adher-
3 ence to the Golden Rule, or his literature shall
not be adjudged Christian Science. A departure
from the spirit or letter of this By-Law involves
6 schisms in our Church and the possible loss, for
a time, of Christian Science.
Obnoxious Books. SECT. 12. A member of
9 this Church shall not patronize a publishing
house or bookstore that has for sale obnoxious
books.
12 Per Capita Tax. SECT. 13. Every member
of The Mother Church shall pay annually a per
capita tax of not less than one dollar, which shall
15 be forwarded each year to the Church Treasurer.
Church Periodicals. SECT. 14. It shall be the
privilege and duty of every member, who can
18 afford it, to subscribe for the periodicals which
are the organs of this Church; and it shall be
the duty of the Directors to see that these period-
21 icals are ably edited and kept abreast of the
times.
Church Organizations Ample. SECT. 15.
24 Members of this Church shall not unite with
organizations which impede their progress in
Christian Science. God requires our whole heart,

Discipline 45

1 and He supplies within the wide channels of The
Mother Church dutiful and sufficient occupation
3 for all its members.
Joining Another Society. SECT. 16. It shall
be the duty of the members of The Mother
6 Church and of its branches to promote peace on
earth and good will toward men; but members
of The Mother Church shall not hereafter be-
9 come members of other societies except those
specified in The Mother Church Manual, and
they shall strive to promote the welfare of all
12 mankind by demonstrating the rules of divine
Love.
Forbidden Membership. SECT. 17. A mem-
15 ber of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in
Boston, Mass., shall not be a member of any
church whose Readers are not Christian Scientists
18 and members of The Mother Church.
Officious Members. SECT. 18. A member of
The Mother Church is not entitled to hold office
21 or read in branch churches of this denomination
except by invitation.
Legal Titles. SECT. 19. Students of Chris-
24 tian Science must drop the titles of Reverend and
Doctor, except those who have received these
titles under the laws of the State.

46 Church By-Laws Art. VIII

1 Illegal Adoption. SECT. 20. No person shall
be a member of this Church who claims a spirit-
3 ually adopted child or a spiritually adopted hus-
band or wife. There must be legal adoption and
legal marriage, which can be verified according
6 to the laws of our land.
Use of Initials "C.S." SECT. 21. A member
of The Mother Church shall not place the initials
9 "C.S." after his name on circulars, cards, or
leaflets, which advertise his business or profes-
sion, except as a Christian Science practitioner.
12 Practitioners and Patients. SECT. 22. Mem-
bers of this Church shall hold in sacred confi-
dence all private communications made to them
15 by their patients; also such information as may
come to them by reason of their relation of prac-
titioner to patient. A failure to do this shall sub-
18 ject the offender to Church discipline.
A member of The Mother Church shall not,
under pardonable circumstances, sue his patient
21 for recovery of payment for said member's
practice, on penalty of discipline and liability
to have his name removed from membership.
24 Also he shall reasonably reduce his price in
chronic cases of recovery, and in cases where
he has not effected a cure. A Christian Scientist

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1 is a humanitarian; he is benevolent, forgiving,
long-suffering, and seeks to overcome evil with
3 good.
Duty to Patients. SECT. 23. If a member of
this Church has a patient whom he does not heal,
6 and whose case he cannot fully diagnose, he
may consult with an M.D. on the anatomy in-
volved. And it shall be the privilege of a Chris-
9 tian Scientist to confer with an M.D. on Ontol-
ogy, or the Science of being.
Testimonials. SECT. 24. "Glorify God in
12 your body, and in your spirit, which are God's"
(St. Paul). Testimony in regard to the healing
of the sick is highly important. More than a mere
15 rehearsal of blessings, it scales the pinnacle of
praise and illustrates the demonstration of Christ,
"who healeth all thy diseases" (Psalm 103:3).
18 This testimony, however, shall not include a de-
scription of symptoms or of suffering, though the
generic name of the disease may be indicated.
21 This By-Law applies to testimonials which appear
in the periodicals and to those which are given
at the Wednesday evening meeting.
24 Charity to All. SECT. 25. While members
of this Church do not believe in the doctrines
of theosophy, hypnotism, or spiritualism, they

48 Church By-Laws Art. VIII

1 cherish no enmity toward those who do believe
in such doctrines, and will not harm them. But
3 whenever God calls a member to bear testimony
to Truth and to defend the Cause of Christ, he
shall do it with love and without fear.
6 Uncharitable Publications. SECT. 26. A
member of this Church shall not publish, nor
cause to be published, an article that is unchari-
9 table or impertinent towards religion, medicine,
the courts, or the laws of our land.
The Golden Rule. SECT. 27. A member of
12 The Mother Church shall not haunt Mrs. Eddy's
drive when she goes out, continually stroll by
her house, or make a summer resort near her
15 for such a purpose.
Numbering the People. SECT. 28. Christian
Scientists shall not report for publication the
18 number of the members of The Mother Church,
nor that of the branch churches. According to
the Scripture they shall turn away from person-
21 ality and numbering the people.
Our Church Edifices. SECT. 29. The period-
icals of our denomination do not publish de-
24 scriptions of our church edifices, but they may
quote from other periodicals or give incidental
narratives.

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1 No Monopoly. SECT. 30. A Scientist shall
not endeavor to monopolize the healing work in
3 any church or locality, to the exclusion of others,
but all who understand the teachings of Christian
Science are privileged to enter into this holy work,
6 and "by their fruits ye shall know them."
Christian Science Nurse. SECT. 31. A mem-
ber of The Mother Church who represents him-
9 self or herself as a Christian Science nurse shall
be one who has a demonstrable knowledge of
Christian Science practice, who thoroughly under-
12 stands the practical wisdom necessary in a sick
room, and who can take proper care of the sick.
The cards of such persons may be inserted in
15 The Christian Science Journal under rules estab-
lished by the publishers.

Article IX

18 MARRIAGE AND DECEASE

A Legal Ceremony. SECTION 1. If a Chris-
tian Scientist is to be married, the ceremony
21 shall be performed by a clergyman who is legally
authorized.
Sudden Decease. SECT. 2. If a member of
24 The Mother Church shall decease suddenly, with-
out previous injury or illness, and the cause

50 Church By-Laws Art. XI

1 thereof be unknown, an autopsy shall be made
by qualified experts. When it is possible the
3 body of a female shall be prepared for burial by
one of her own sex.

Article X

6 DEBATING IN PUBLIC

No Unauthorized Debating. SECTION 1. A
member of this Church shall not debate on Chris-
9 tian Science in public debating assemblies, with-
out the consent of the Board of Directors.

Article XI

12 COMPLAINTS

Departure from Tenets. SECTION 1. If a
member of this Church shall depart from the
15 Tenets and be found having the name without
the life of a Christian Scientist, and another
member in good standing shall from Christian
18 motives make this evident, a meeting of the Board
of Directors shall be called, and the offender's
case shall be tried and said member exonerated,
21 put on probation, or excommunicated.
Violation of By-Laws. SECT. 2. A member
who is found violating any of the By-Laws

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1 or Rules herein set forth, shall be admonished
in consonance with the Scriptural demand in
3 Matthew 18:15-17; and if he neglect to accept
such admonition, he shall be placed on probation,
or if he repeat the offense, his name shall be
6 dropped from the roll of Church membership.
Violation of Christian Fellowship. SECT. 3.
Any member who shall unjustly aggrieve or
9 vilify the Pastor Emeritus or another member,
or who does not live in Christian fellowship with
members who are in good and regular standing
12 with this Church, shall either withdraw from the
Church or be excommunicated.
Preliminary Requirement. SECT. 4. No
15 Church discipline shall ensue until the require-
ments according to the Scriptures, in Matthew
18:15-17, have been strictly obeyed, unless a
18 By-Law governing the case provides for imme-
diate action.
Authority. SECT. 5. The Christian Science
21 Board of Directors has power to discipline, place
on probation, remove from membership, or to
excommunicate members of The Mother Church.
24 Only the members of this Board shall be pres-
ent at meetings for the examination of com-
plaints against Church members; and they alone

52 Church By-Laws Art. XI

1 shall vote on cases involving The Mother Church
discipline.
3 Members in Mother Church Only. SECT. 6.
A complaint against a member of The Mother
Church, if said member belongs to no branch
6 church and if this complaint is not for mental
malpractice, shall be laid before this Board, and
within ten days thereafter, the Clerk of the
9 Church shall address a letter of inquiry to the
member complained of as to the validity of
the charge. If a member is found guilty of that
12 whereof he is accused and his previous character
has been good, his confession of his error and
evidence of his compliance with our Church
15 Rules shall be deemed sufficient by the Board
for forgiveness for once, and the Clerk of the
Church shall immediately so inform him. But
18 a second offense shall dismiss a member from
the Church.
Working Against the Cause. SECT. 7. If a
21 member of this Church shall, mentally or other-
wise, persist in working against the interests of
another member, or the interests of our Pastor
24 Emeritus and the accomplishment of what she
understands is advantageous to this Church and
to the Cause of Christian Science, or shall influ-

Discipline 53

1 ence others thus to act, upon her complaint or
the complaint of a member for her or for himself,
3 it shall be the duty of the Board of Directors
immediately to call a meeting, and drop forever
the name of the member guilty of this offense
6 from the roll of Church membership.
No Unchristian Conduct. SECT. 8. If a
member of this Church were to treat the author
9 of our textbook disrespectfully and cruelly, upon
her complaint that member should be excommu-
nicated. If a member, without her having re-
12 quested the information, shall trouble her on
subjects unnecessarily and without her consent,
it shall be considered an offense.
15 Not to Learn Hypnotism. SECT. 9. Mem-
bers of this Church shall not learn hypnotism
on penalty of being excommunicated from this
18 Church. No member shall enter a complaint of
mental malpractice for a sinister purpose. If
the author of SCIENCE AND HEALTH shall bear
21 witness to the offense of mental malpractice, it
shall be considered a sufficient evidence thereof.
Publications Unjust. SECT. 10. If a mem-
24 ber of The Mother Church publishes, or causes
to be published, an article that is false or unjust,
hence injurious, to Christian Science or to its

54 Church By-Laws Art. XI

1 Leader, and if, upon complaint by another mem-
ber, the Board of Directors finds that the offense
3 has been committed, the offender shall be sus-
pended for not less than three years from his
or her office in this Church and from Church
6 membership.
The Mother Church of Christ, Scientist,
Tenets. SECT. 11. If a member of The Mother
9 Church of Christ, Scientist, or a member of a
branch of this Church break the rules of its
Tenets as to unjust and unmerciful conduct —
12 on complaint of Mrs. Eddy our Pastor Emeritus
— and this complaint being found valid, his or
her name shall be erased from The Mother
15 Church and the branch church's list of mem-
bership and the offender shall not be received
into The Mother Church or a branch church
18 for twelve years.
Special Offense. SECT. 12. If a member of
this Church, either by word or work, represents
21 falsely to or of the Leader and Pastor Emeritus,
said member shall immediately be disciplined, and
a second similar offense shall remove his or her
24 name from membership in The Mother Church.
Members of Branch Churches. SECT. 13. A
member of both The Mother Church and a branch

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1 Church of Christ, Scientist, or a Reader, shall not
report nor send notices to The Mother Church,
3 or to the Pastor Emeritus, of errors of the mem-
bers of their local church; but they shall strive
to overcome these errors. Each church shall
6 separately and independently discipline its own
members, — if this sad necessity occurs.

Article XII

9 TEACHERS

Probation. SECTION 1. For sufficient rea-
sons it may be decided that a teacher has so
12 strayed as not to be fit for the work of a Reader
in church or a teacher of Christian Science.
Although repentant and forgiven by the Church
15 and retaining his membership, this weak member
shall not be counted loyal till after three years
of exemplary character. Then the Board of
18 Directors may decide if his loyalty has been
proved by uniform maintenance of the life of
a consistent, consecrated Christian Scientist.
21 Misteaching. SECT. 2. If a member of this
Church is found trying to practise or to teach
Christian Science contrary to the statement
24 thereof in its textbook, SCIENCE AND HEALTH

56 Church By-Laws Art. XIII

1 WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, it shall be the
duty of the Board of Directors to admonish
3 that member according to Article XI, Sect. 4.
Then, if said member persists in this offense,
his or her name shall be dropped from the roll
6 of this Church.

MEETINGS

Article XIII

9 REGULAR AND SPECIAL MEETINGS

Annual Meetings. SECTION 1. The regular
meetings of The Mother Church shall be held
12 annually, on Monday following the first Sunday
in June. No other than its officers are required
to be present. These assemblies shall be for
15 listening to the reports of Treasurer, Clerk, and
Committees, and general reports from the Field.
Meetings of Board of Directors. SECT. 2.
18 The annual meeting of the Christian Science
Board of Directors, for electing officers and
other business, shall be held on Monday preced-
21 ing the annual meeting of the Church. Regular
meetings for electing candidates to membership

Discipline 57

1 with The Mother Church, and for the transac-
tion of such other business as may properly come
3 before these meetings, shall be held on the Fri-
day preceding the first Sunday in June, and on
the first Friday in November of each year. Spe-
6 cial meetings may be held at any time upon the
call of the Clerk.
Called only by the Clerk. SECT. 3. Before
9 calling a meeting of the members of this Church
(excepting its regular sessions) it shall be the
duty of the Clerk to inform the Board of Di-
12 rectors and the Pastor Emeritus of his intention,
and to state definitely the purpose for which the
members are to convene. The Clerk must have
15 the consent of this Board and the Pastor Emer-
itus, before he can call said meeting.

58 Church By-Laws Art. XV

1 CHURCH SERVICES

Article XIV

3 THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PASTOR

Ordination. SECTION 1. I, Mary Baker
Eddy, ordain the BIBLE, and SCIENCE AND
6 HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, Pastor
over The Mother Church, — The First Church
of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., — and
9 they will continue to preach for this Church
and the world.
The Lesson-Sermon. SECT. 2. The subject
12 of the Lesson-Sermon in the morning service of
The Mother Church, and of the branch Churches
of Christ, Scientist, shall be repeated at the other
15 services on Sunday. The correlative Biblical
texts in the Lesson-Sermon shall extend from
Genesis to Revelation.

18 Article XV

READING IN PUBLIC

Announcing Author's Name. SECTION 1.
21 To pour into the ears of listeners the sacred

Church Services 59

1 revelations of Christian Science indiscriminately,
or without characterizing their origin and thus
3 distinguishing them from the writings of authors
who think at random on this subject, is to
lose some weight in the scale of right think-
6 ing. Therefore it is the duty of every member
of this Church, when publicly reading or quot-
ing from the books or poems of our Pastor
9 Emeritus, first to announce the name of the
author. Members shall also instruct their pupils
to adopt the aforenamed method for the benefit
12 of our Cause.

Article XVI

WELCOMING STRANGERS

15 The Leader's Welcome. SECTION 1. Mrs.
Eddy welcomes to her seats in the church,
persons of all sects and denominations who
18 come to listen to the Sunday sermon and are
not otherwise provided with seats.
The Local Members' Welcome. SECT. 2. It
21 shall be the duty and privilege of the local mem-
bers of The Mother Church to give their seats, if
necessary, to strangers who may come to attend
24 the morning services.

60 Church By-Laws Art. XVII

1 Article XVII

SERVICES UNINTERRUPTED

3 Continued Throughout the Year. SECTION 1.
The services of The Mother Church shall be
continued twelve months each year. One meet-
6 ing on Sunday during the months of July and
August is sufficient. A Christian Scientist is
not fatigued by prayer, by reading the Scriptures
9 or the Christian Science textbook. Amusement
or idleness is weariness. Truth and Love rest
the weary and heavy laden.
12 Easter Observances. SECT. 2. In the United
States there shall be no special observances,
festivities, nor gifts at the Easter season by
15 members of The Mother Church. Gratitude
and love should abide in every heart each day
of all the years. Those sacred words of our
18 beloved Master, "Let the dead bury their dead,"
and "Follow thou me," appeal to daily Christian
endeavors for the living whereby to exemplify
21 our risen Lord.
Laying a Corner Stone. SECT. 3. No large
gathering of people nor display shall be allowed
24 when laying the Corner Stone of a Church of
Christ, Scientist. Let the ceremony be devout.

Church Services 61

1 No special trowel should be used.(See SCIENCE
AND HEALTH, page 140.)
3 Overflow Meetings. SECT. 4. A Church of
Christ, Scientist, shall not hold two or more
Sunday services at the same hour.

6 Article XVIII

COMMUNION

No more Communion. SECTION 1. The
9 Mother Church of Christ, Scientist, shall observe
no more Communion seasons.
Communion of Branch Churches. SECT. 2.
12 The Communion shall be observed in the branch
churches on the second Sunday in January and
July of each year, and at this service the Tenets
15 of The Mother Church are to be read.

Article XIX

MUSIC IN THE CHURCH

18 Soloist and Organist. SECTION 1. The music
in The Mother Church shall not be operatic, but
of an appropriate religious character and of a
21 recognized standard of musical excellence; it
shall be played in a dignified and suitable man-
ner. Music from the organ alone should con-
24 tinue about eight or nine minutes for the

62 Church By-Laws Art. XX

1 voluntary and six or seven minutes for the post-
lude, the offertory conforming to the time re-
3 quired to take the collection. The solo singer
shall not neglect to sing any special hymn selected
by the Board of Directors.

6 Article XX

SUNDAY SCHOOL

The Sunday School. SECTION 1. Pupils may
9 be received in the Sunday School classes of any
Church of Christ, Scientist, up to the age of
twenty years, and by transfer from another
12 Church of Christ, Scientist, up to that age, but
no pupil shall remain in the Sunday School of
any Church of Christ, Scientist, after reaching
15 the age of twenty. None except the officers,
teachers, and pupils should attend the Sunday
School exercises.
18 Teaching the Children. SECT. 2. The
Sabbath School children shall be taught the
Scriptures, and they shall be instructed ac-
21 cording to their understanding or ability to grasp
the simpler meanings of the divine Principle that
they are taught.
24 Subject for Lessons. SECT. 3. The first
lessons of the children should be the Ten Com-

Reading Rooms 63

1 mandments (Exodus 20:3-17), the Lord's
Prayer (Matt. 6:9-13), and its Spiritual In-
3 terpretation by Mary Baker Eddy, Sermon on
the Mount (Matt. 5:3-12). The next les-
sons consist of such questions and answers as
6 are adapted to a juvenile class, and may be
found in the Christian Science Quarterly Lessons,
read in Church services. The instruction given
9 by the children's teachers must not deviate from
the absolute Christian Science contained in their
textbook.

12 READING ROOMS

Article XXI

Establishment. SECTION 1. Each church of
15 the Christian Science denomination shall have
a Reading Room, though two or more churches
may unite in having Reading Rooms, provided
18 these rooms are well located.
Librarian. SECT. 2. The individuals who
take charge of the Reading Rooms of The
21 Mother Church shall be elected by the Christian
Science Board of Directors, subject to the ap-
proval of Mary Baker Eddy. He or she shall
24 have no bad habits, shall have had experience in

64 Church By-Laws Art. XXII

1 the Field, shall be well educated, and a devout
Christian Scientist.¹
3 Literature in Reading Rooms. SECT. 3. The
literature sold or exhibited in the Reading Rooms
of Christian Science Churches shall consist only
6 of Science and Health with Key to the Scrip-
tures, by Mary Baker Eddy, and other writings
by this author; also the literature published or
9 sold by The Christian Science Publishing Society.

RELATION AND DUTIES OF MEMBERS
TO PASTOR EMERITUS

12 Article XXII

The Title of Mother Changed. SECTION 1.
In the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five,
15 loyal Christian Scientists had given to the author
of their textbook, the Founder of Christian Sci-
ence, the individual, endearing term of Mother.
18 At first Mrs. Eddy objected to being called thus,
but afterward consented on the ground that this
appellative in the Church meant nothing more
21 than a tender term such as sister or brother. In
the year nineteen hundred and three and after,
owing to the public misunderstanding of this
24 name, it is the duty of Christian Scientists to

¹See also Article XXV, Sect. 7.

Relation of Members to Pastor Emeritus 65

1 drop the word mother and to substitute Leader,
already used in our periodicals.
3 A Member not a Leader. SECT. 2. A
member of The First Church of Christ, Sci-
entist, in Boston, Mass., shall not be called
6 Leader by members of this Church, when this
term is used in connection with Christian
Science.
9 Obedience Required. SECT. 3. It shall be
the duty of the officers of this Church, of the
editors of the Christian Science Journal, Sen-
12 tinel, and Der Herold, of the members of the
Committees on Publication, of the Trustees of
The Christian Science Publishing Society, and
15 of the Board of Education promptly to comply
with any written order, signed by Mary Baker
Eddy, which applies to their official functions.
18 Disobedience to this By-Law shall be sufficient
cause for the removal of the offending member
from office.
21 The vacancy shall be supplied by a majority
vote of the Christian Science Board of Direc-
tors, and the candidate shall be subject to the
24 approval of Mary Baker Eddy.
Understanding Communications. SECT. 4.
If the Clerk of this Church shall receive a com-

66 Church By-Laws Art. XXII

1 munication from the Pastor Emeritus which he
does not fully understand, he shall inform her
3 of this fact before presenting it to the Church
and obtain a clear understanding of the matter,
— then act in accordance therewith.
6 Interpreting Communications. SECT. 5. If
at a meeting of this Church a doubt or dis-
agreement shall arise among the members as to
9 the signification of the communications of the
Pastor Emeritus to them, before action is taken
it shall be the duty of the Clerk to report to her
12 the vexed question and to await her explanation
thereof.
Reading and Attesting Letters. SECT. 6.
15 When a letter or a message from the Pastor
Emeritus is brought before a meeting of this
Church, or she is referred to as authority for
18 business, it shall be the duty of the Church to
inquire if all of the letter has been read, and to
require all of it to be read; also to have any
21 authority supposed to come from her satisfac-
torily attested.
Unauthorized Reports. SECT. 7. Members
24 of this Church shall not report on authority an
order from Mrs. Eddy that she has not sent,
either to the Boards or to the executive bodies

Relation of Members to Pastor Emeritus 67

1 of this Church. The Pastor Emeritus is not to
be consulted on cases of discipline, on the cases
3 of candidates for admission to this Church, or
on the cases of those on trial for dismissal from
the Church.
6 Private Communications. SECT. 8. A strictly
private communication from the Pastor Emeritus
to a member of her Church shall not be made
9 public without her written consent.
Unauthorized Legal Action. SECT. 9. A
member of this Church shall not employ an at-
12 torney, nor take legal action on a case not pro-
vided for in its By-Laws — if said case relates
to the person or to the property of Mary Baker
15 Eddy — without having personally conferred
with her on said subject.
Duty to God. SECT. 10. Members of this
18 Church who turn their attention from the divine
Principle of being to personality, sending gifts,
congratulatory despatches or letters to the Pastor
21 Emeritus on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year,
or Easter, break a rule of this Church and are
amenable therefor.
24 Opportunity for Serving the Leader. SECT.
11. At the written request of the Pastor Emeri-
tus, Mrs. Eddy, the Board of Directors shall

68 Church By-Laws Art. XXII

1 immediately notify a person who has been a
member of this Church at least three years to
3 go in ten days to her, and it shall be the duty
of the member thus notified to remain with Mrs.
Eddy three years consecutively. A member who
6 leaves her in less time without the Directors'
consent or who declines to obey this call to
duty, upon Mrs. Eddy's complaint thereof shall
9 be excommunicated from The Mother Church.
Members thus serving the Leader shall be paid
semi-annually at the rate of one thousand dol-
12 lars yearly in addition to rent and board. Those
members whom she teaches the course in Divin-
ity, and who remain with her three consecutive
15 years, receive the degree of the Massachusetts
Metaphysical College.
Location. SECT. 12. Rev. Mary Baker Eddy
18 calls to her home or allows to visit or to locate
therein only those individuals whom she engages
through the Christian Science Board of Direc-
21 tors of The Mother Church. This By-Law takes
effect on Dec. 15, 1908.
Agreement Required. SECT. 13. When the
24 Christian Science Board of Directors calls a stu-
dent in accordance with Article XXII, Sect. 11,
of our Church Manual to the home of their

Relation of Members to Pastor Emeritus 69

1 Leader, Mrs. Eddy, said student shall come under
a signed agreement to remain with Mrs. Eddy
3 if she so desires, during the time specified in the
Church Manual.
Incomplete Term of Service. SECT. 14. If a
6 student who has been called to serve our Leader
in accordance with Article XXII, Sect. 11, of
the Church Manual leaves her before the expira-
9 tion of the time therein mentioned such student
shall pay to Mrs. Eddy whatsoever she may
charge for what she has taught him or her dur-
12 ing the time of such service.
Help. SECT. 15. If the author of the Chris-
tian Science textbook call on this Board for
15 household help or a handmaid, the Board shall
immediately appoint a proper member of this
Church therefor, and the appointee shall go im-
18 mediately in obedience to the call. "He that lov-
eth father or mother more than me is not worthy
of me."(Matt. 10:37.)
21 Students with Mrs. Eddy. SECT. 16. Stu-
dents employed by Mrs. Eddy at her home shall
not take care of their churches or attend to other
24 affairs outside of her house.
Mrs. Eddy's Room. SECT. 17. The room in
The Mother Church formerly known as "Mother's
27 Room" shall hereafter be closed to visitors.

70 Church By-Laws Art. XXIII

1 Pastor Emeritus to be Consulted. SECT. 18.
The Mother Church shall not make a church By-
3 Law, nor enter into a business transaction with a
Christian Scientist in the employ of Rev. Mary
Baker Eddy, without first consulting her on said
6 subject and adhering strictly to her advice thereon.

THE MOTHER CHURCH AND
BRANCH CHURCHES

9 Article XXIII

Local Self-government. SECTION 1. The
Mother Church of Christ, Scientist, shall assume
12 no general official control of other churches, and
it shall be controlled by none other.
Each Church of Christ, Scientist, shall have its
15 own form of government. No conference of
churches shall be held, unless it be when our
churches, located in the same State, convene to
18 confer on a statute of said State, or to confer
harmoniously on individual unity and action of
the churches in said State.
21 Titles. SECT. 2. "The First Church of
Christ, Scientist," is the legal title of The Mother

The Mother Church and Branch Churches 71

1 Church. Branch churches of The Mother Church
may take the title of First Church of Christ,
3 Scientist; Second Church of Christ, Scientist;
and so on, where more than one church is es-
tablished in the same place; but the article
6 "The" must not be used before titles of branch
churches, nor written on applications for mem-
bership in naming such churches.
9 Mother Church Unique. SECT. 3. In its
relation to other Christian Science churches, in
its By-Laws and self-government, The Mother
12 Church stands alone; it occupies a position that
no other church can fill. Then for a branch
church to assume such position would be disas-
15 trous to Christian Science. Therefore, no Church
of Christ, Scientist, shall be considered loyal
that has branch churches or adopts The Mother
18 Church's form of government, except in such cases
as are specially allowed and named in this Manual.
Tenets Copyrighted. SECT. 4. Branch
21 churches shall not write the Tenets of The
Mother Church in their church books, except
they give the name of their author and her
24 permission to publish them as Tenets of The
Mother Church, copyrighted in SCIENCE AND
HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES.

72 Church By-Laws Art. XXIII

1 Manual. SECT. 5. Branch churches shall
not adopt, print, nor publish the Manual of The
3 Mother Church. See Article XXXV, Sect. 1.
Organizing Churches. SECT. 6. A member
of this Church who obeys its By-Laws and is a
6 loyal exemplary Christian Scientist working in
the Field, is eligible to form a church in con-
formity with Sect. 7 of this Article, and to
9 have church services conducted by reading the
SCRIPTURES and the Christian Science textbook.
This church shall be acknowledged publicly as a
12 Church of Christ, Scientist. Upon proper appli-
cation, made in accordance with the rules of The
Christian Science Publishing Society, the serv-
15 ices of such a church may be advertised in The
Christian Science Journal. The branch churches
shall be individual, and not more than two small
18 churches shall consolidate under one church gov-
ernment. If the Pastor Emeritus, Mrs. Eddy,
should relinquish her place as the head or Leader
21 of The Mother Church of Christ, Scientist, each
branch church shall continue its present form of
government in consonance with The Mother
24 Church Manual.
Requirements for Organizing Branch
Churches. SECT. 7. A branch church of The
27 First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass.,

The Mother Church and Branch Churches 73

1 shall not be organized with less than sixteen loyal
Christian Scientists, four of whom are members
3 of The Mother Church. This membership shall
include at least one active practitioner whose card
is published in the list of practitioners in The
6 Christian Science Journal.
Privilege of Members. SECT. 8. Members
in good standing with The Mother Church, who
9 are members of the faculty, instructors, or stu-
dents in any university or college, can form and
conduct a Christian Science organization at such
12 university or college, provided its rules so permit.
Also members in good standing with The Mother
Church, who are graduates of said university
15 or college, may become members of the organ-
ization by application to, and by the unanimous
vote of, the active members present, if the rules
18 of the university or college so permit. When
called for, a member of the Board of Lecture-
ship may lecture for said university or college
21 organization.
No Close Communion. SECT. 9. The
Mother Church and the branch churches shall
24 not confine their membership to the pupils of
one teacher.
No Interference. SECT. 10. A member of The
27 Mother Church may be a member of one branch

74 Church By-Laws Art. XXIII

1 Church of Christ, Scientist, or of one Christian
Science society holding public services, but he
3 shall not be a member of both a branch church
and a society; neither shall he exercise super-
vision or control over any other church. In
6 Christian Science each branch church shall be
distinctly democratic in its government, and no
individual, and no other church shall interfere
9 with its affairs.
Teachers' and Practitioners' Offices. SECT. 11.
Teachers and practitioners of Christian Science
12 shall not have their offices or rooms in the branch
churches, in the Reading Rooms, nor in rooms
connected therewith.
15 Recognition. SECT. 12. In order to be eli-
gible to a card in The Christian Science Journal,
churches and societies are required to acknowl-
18 edge as such all other Christian Science churches
and societies advertised in said Journal, and to
maintain toward them an attitude of Christian
21 fellowship.

Guardianship of Church Funds 75

1 GUARDIANSHIP OF CHURCH FUNDS

Article XXIV

3 Church Edifice a Testimonial. SECTION 1.
Whereas, on March 20, 1895, the Christian Sci-
ence Board of Directors, in behalf of The
6 First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass.,
presented to Rev. Mary Baker Eddy their
church edifice as a Testimonial of this Church's
9 love and gratitude, and she, with grateful ac-
knowledgments thereof, declined to receive this
munificent gift, she now understands the finan-
12 cial situation between the Christian Science
Board of Directors and said Church to be as
follows: —
15 Financial Situation. SECT. 2. The Christian
Science Board of Directors owns the church edi-
fices, with the land whereon they stand, legally;
18 and the Church members own the aforesaid
premises and buildings, beneficially. After the
first church was built, the balance of the build-
21 ing funds, which remained in the hands of the
Directors, belonged to the Church, and not solely
to the Directors. The balance of the church

76 Church By-Laws Art. XXIV

1 building funds, which can be spared after the
debts are paid, should remain on safe deposit,
3 to be hereafter used for the benefit of this
Church, as the right occasion may call for it.
The following indicates the proper management
6 of the Church funds: —
Report of Directors. SECT. 3. It shall be
the duty of the Christian Science Board of Di-
9 rectors to have the books of the Church Treas-
urer audited semi-annually, and to report at the
annual Church meeting the amount of funds
12 which the Church has on hand, the amount of
its indebtedness and of its expenditures for the
last year.
15 Finance Committee. SECT. 4. There shall
be a Committee on Finance, which shall consist of
three members of this Church in good standing.
18 Its members shall be appointed annually by the
Christian Science Board of Directors and with
the consent of the Pastor Emeritus. They shall
21 hold quarterly meetings and keep themselves
thoroughly informed as to the real estate owned
by this Church and the amount of funds received
24 by the Treasurer of The Mother Church, who is
individually responsible for said funds. They
shall have the books of the Christian Science

Guardianship of Church Funds 77

1 Board of Directors and the books of the Church
Treasurer audited annually by an honest, com-
3 petent accountant. The books are to be audited
on May first.
Prior to paying bills against the Church, the
6 Treasurer of this Church shall submit them all
to said committee for examination. This com-
mittee shall decide thereupon by a unanimous
9 vote, and its endorsement of the bills shall render
them payable.
If it be found that the Church funds have not
12 been properly managed, it shall be the duty of
the Board of Directors and the Treasurer to be
individually responsible for the performance of
15 their several offices satisfactorily, and for the
proper distribution of the funds of which they
are the custodians.
18 God's Requirement. SECT. 5. God requires
wisdom, economy, and brotherly love to char-
acterize all the proceedings of the members of
21 The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ,
Scientist.
Provision for the Future. SECT. 6. In case
24 of any possible future deviation from duty, the
Committee on Finance shall visit the Board of
Directors, and, in a Christian spirit and manner,

78 Church By-Laws Art. XXIV

1 demand that each member thereof comply with
the By-Laws of the Church. If any Director
3 fails to heed this admonition, he may be dis-
missed from office and the vacancy supplied by
the Board.
6 Debt and Duty. SECT. 7. The Mother Church
shall not be made legally responsible for the debts
of individuals except such debts as are specified
9 in its By-Laws. Donations from this Church
shall not be made without the written consent
of the Pastor Emeritus. Also important move-
12 ments of the manager of the Committee on Pub-
lication shall be sanctioned by the Board of
Directors and be subject to the approval of Mary
15 Baker Eddy.(See Article I, Sect. 6.)
Emergencies. SECT. 8. The Treasurer, per-
sonally, or through the Clerk of the Church,
18 may pay from the funds of the Church bills of
immediate necessity not exceeding $200 for any
one transaction, and he may keep on deposit the
21 sum of $500 with the Clerk, as a petty cash
fund, to be used by him for the payment of
such bills. Such payments shall be reported, on
24 the first of the following month, to the Board
of Directors and the Committee on Finance, for
their approval.

The Christian Science Publishing Society 79

1 Committee on Business. SECT. 9. The Chris-
tian Science Board of Directors shall elect
3 annually a Committee on Business, which shall
consist of not less than three loyal members
of The Mother Church, who shall transact
6 promptly and efficiently such business as Mrs.
Eddy, the Directors, or the Committee on Pub-
lication shall commit to it. While the mem-
9 bers of this Committee are engaged in the
transaction of the business assigned to them
they shall be paid from the Church funds.
12 Before being eligible for office the names of the
persons nominated for said office shall be pre-
sented to Mrs. Eddy for her written approval.

15 THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
PUBLISHING SOCIETY

Article XXV

18 Board of Trustees. SECTION 1. The Board
of Trustees, constituted by a Deed of Trust
given by Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, the Pastor
21 Emeritus of this Church, on January twenty-
fifth, 1898, shall hold and manage the property
therein conveyed, and conduct the business of

80 Church By-Laws Art. XXV

1 "The Christian Science Publishing Society" on
a strictly Christian basis, for the promotion of
3 the interests of Christian Science.
Disposal of Funds. SECT. 2. The net profits
of the business shall be paid over semi-annually
6 to the Treasurer of The Mother Church. He
shall hold this money subject to the order of
the Christian Science Board of Directors, which
9 is authorized to order its disposition only in
accordance with the By-Laws contained in this
Manual.
12 Vacancies in Trusteeship. SECT. 3. The
Christian Science Board of Directors shall have
the power to declare vacancies in said trusteeship,
15 for such reasons as to the Board may seem ex-
pedient.
Whenever a vacancy shall occur, the Pastor
18 Emeritus reserves the right to fill the same by
appointment; but if she does not elect to exer-
cise this right, the remaining trustees shall fill
21 the vacancy, subject to her approval.
Editors and Manager. SECT. 4. The term
of office for the editors and the manager of The
24 Christian Science Publishing Society is one year
each, dating from the time of election to the
office. Incumbents who have served one year or

The Christian Science Publishing Society 81

1 more can be re-elected, or new officers elected,
by a unanimous vote of the Christian Science
3 Board of Directors, and the consent of the Pastor
Emeritus given in her own handwriting.
Suitable Employees. SECT. 5. A person
6 who is not accepted by the Pastor Emeritus and
the Christian Science Board of Directors as
suitable, shall in no manner be connected with
9 publishing her books, nor with editing or pub-
lishing The Christian Science Journal, Christian
Science Sentinel, Der Herold der Christian Sci-
12 ence, nor with The Christian Science Publishing
Society.
Periodicals. SECT. 6. Periodicals which
15 shall at any time be published by The Christian
Science Publishing Society, shall be copyrighted
and conducted according to the provisions in the
18 Deed of Trust relating to The Christian Science
Journal.
Rule of Conduct. SECT. 7. No objectionable
21 pictures shall be exhibited in the rooms where the
Christian Science textbook is published or sold.
No idle gossip, no slander, no mischief-making,
24 no evil speaking shall be allowed.
Books to be Published. SECT. 8. Only the
Publishing Society of The Mother Church selects,

82 Church By-Laws Art. XXV

1 approves, and publishes the books and litera-
ture it sends forth. If Mary Baker Eddy disap-
3 proves of certain books or literature, the Society
will not publish them. The Committees on Publi-
cation are in no manner connected with these
6 functions. A book or an article of which Mrs.
Eddy is the author shall not be published nor
republished by this Society without her knowl-
9 edge or written consent.
Removal of Cards. SECT. 9. No cards shall
be removed from our periodicals without the re-
12 quest of the advertiser, except by a majority vote
of the Christian Science Board of Directors at
a meeting held for this purpose or for the exam-
15 ination of complaints.
Members of this Church who practise other
professions or pursue other vocations, shall not
18 advertise as healers, excepting those members
who are officially engaged in the work of Chris-
tian Science, and they must devote ample time
21 for faithful practice.

Teaching Christian Science 83

1 TEACHING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Article XXVI

3 TEACHERS

Motive in Teaching. SECTION 1. Teaching
Christian Science shall not be a question of
6 money, but of morals and religion, healing and
uplifting the race.
Care of Pupils. SECT. 2. Christian Scientists
9 who are teachers shall carefully select for pupils
such only as have good past records and promis-
ing proclivities toward Christian Science. A
12 teacher shall not assume personal control of, or
attempt to dominate his pupils, but he shall hold
himself morally obligated to promote their prog-
15 ress in the understanding of divine Principle, not
only during the class term but after it, and to
watch well that they prove sound in sentiment
18 and practical in Christian Science. He shall per-
sistently and patiently counsel his pupils in con-
formity with the unerring laws of God, and shall
21 enjoin them habitually to study the Scriptures
and SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE
SCRIPTURES as a help thereto.

84 Church By-Laws Art. XXVI

1 Defense against Malpractice. SECT. 3.
Teachers shall instruct their pupils how to de-
3 fend themselves against mental malpractice,
never to return evil for evil, but to know the
truth that makes free, and thus to be a law, not
6 unto others, but to themselves.
Number of Pupils. SECT. 4. The teachers of
Christian Science shall teach but one class yearly,
9 which class shall consist of not more than thirty
pupils. After 1907, the Board of Education shall
have one class triennially, a Normal class not
12 exceeding thirty pupils.
Pupil's Tuition. SECT. 5. A student's price
for teaching Christian Science shall not exceed
15 $100.00 per pupil.
Associations. SECT. 6. The associations of the
pupils of loyal teachers shall convene annually.
18 The pupils shall be guided by the BIBLE, and
SCIENCE AND HEALTH, not by their teachers'
personal views. Teachers shall not call their
21 pupils together, or assemble a selected number of
them, for more frequent meetings.
A Single Field of Labor. SECT. 7. A loyal
24 teacher of Christian Science shall not teach an-
other loyal teacher's pupil, except it be in the
Board of Education. Outside of this Board each

Teaching Christian Science 85

1 student occupies only his own field of labor.
Pupils may visit each other's churches, and by
3 invitation attend each other's associations.
Caring for Pupils of Strayed Members.
SECT. 8. A loyal teacher of Christian Science
6 may teach and receive into his association the
pupils of another member of this Church who
has so strayed as justly to be deemed, under the
9 provisions of Article XII, Sect. 1, not ready to
lead his pupils.
Teachers must have Certificates. SECT. 9.
12 A member of this Church shall not teach pupils
Christian Science unless he has a certificate to
show that he has been taught by Mrs. Eddy or
15 has taken a Normal Course at the Massachu-
setts Metaphysical College or in the Board of
Education.
18 Such members who have not been continu-
ously active and loyal Christian Scientists since
receiving instruction as above, shall not teach
21 Christian Science without the approval of The
Christian Science Board of Directors.

86 Church By-Laws Art. XXVII

1 Article XXVII

PUPILS

3 Authorized to Teach. SECTION 1. After a
student's pupil has been duly authorized to be
a teacher of Christian Science, or has been under
6 the personal instruction of Mrs. Eddy, he is no
longer under the jurisdiction of his former
teacher.
9 Without Teachers. SECT. 2. Those be-
loved brethren whose teacher has left them,
can elect an experienced Christian Scientist,
12 who is not in charge of an association of
students and who is ready for this high call-
ing, to conduct the meetings of their asso-
15 ciation.
Basis for Teaching. SECT. 3. The teachers
of the Normal class shall teach from the chapter
18 "Recapitulation" in SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH
KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, and from the Chris-
tian Science Platform, beginning on page 330 of
21 the revised editions since 1902, and they shall
teach nothing contrary thereto. The teachers
of the Primary class shall instruct their pupils
24 from the said chapter on "Recapitulation" only.

Teaching Christian Science 87

1 Church Membership. SECT. 4. Neither the
Pastor Emeritus nor a member of this Church
3 shall teach Roman Catholics Christian Science,
except it be with the written consent of the
authority of their Church. Choice of patients is
6 left to the wisdom of the practitioner, and Mrs.
Eddy is not to be consulted on this subject.
Class Teaching. SECT. 5. Members of The
9 Mother Church who are authorized by its By-
Laws to teach Christian Science, shall not solicit,
or cause or permit others to solicit, pupils for their
12 classes. No member of this Church shall advise
against class instruction.
Teachers of Christian Science must have the
15 necessary moral and spiritual qualifications to
elucidate the Principle and rule of Christian Sci-
ence, through the higher meaning of the Scrip-
18 tures. "The less the teacher personally controls
other minds, and the more he trusts them to the
divine Truth and Love, the better it will be for
21 both teacher and student."(Retrospection and
Introspection, page 84.)

88 Church By-Laws Art. XXVII

1 BOARD OF EDUCATION

Article XXVIII

3 ORGANIZATION

Officers. SECTION 1. There shall be a Board
of Education, under the auspices of Mary Baker
6 Eddy, President of the Massachusetts Metaphysi-
cal College, consisting of three members, a presi-
dent, vice-president, and teacher of Christian
9 Science. Obstetrics will not be taught.
Election. SECT. 2. The vice-president shall
be elected annually by the Christian Science
12 Board of Directors. Beginning with 1907, the
teacher shall be elected every third year by said
Board, and the candidate shall be subject to the
15 approval of the Pastor Emeritus.
President not to be Consulted. SECT. 3. The
President is not to be consulted by students
18 on the question of applying for admission to this
Board nor on their course or conduct. The stu-
dents can confer with their teachers on subjects
21 essential to their progress.

Board of Education 89

1 Presidency of College. SECT. 4. Should the
President resign over her own signature or va-
3 cate her office of President of the Massachusetts
Metaphysical College, a meeting of the Christian
Science Board of Directors shall immediately be
6 called, and the vice-president of the Board of
Education being found worthy, on receiving her
approval shall be elected to fill the vacancy.

9 Article XXIX

APPLICANTS AND GRADUATES

Normal Teachers. SECTION 1. Loyal stu-
12 dents who have been taught in a Primary class
by Mrs. Eddy and have practised Christian Sci-
ence healing acceptably three years, and who pre-
15 sent such credentials as are required to verify
this fact, are eligible to receive the degree of
C.S.D.
18 Qualifications. SECT. 2. Loyal Christian
Scientists' pupils who so desire may apply to the
Board of Education for instruction; and if they
21 have practised Christian Science healing success-
fully three years and will furnish evidence of
their eligibility therefor, they are eligible to enter

90 Church By-Laws Art. XXX

1 the Normal class. All members of this class must
be thorough English scholars.
3 Certificates. SECT. 3. Students are examined
and given certificates by this Board if found
qualified to receive them.

6 Article XXX

ACTION OF THE BOARD

Sessions. SECTION 1. The term of the
9 Massachusetts Metaphysical College will open
with the Board of Education on the first
Wednesday of December. The sessions will
12 continue not over one week. None but the
teacher and members of the College class shall
be present at the sessions, and no Primary
15 classes shall be taught under the auspices of
this Board.
Special Instruction. SECT. 2. Not less than
18 two thorough lessons by a well qualified teacher
shall be given to each Normal class on the
subject of mental practice and malpractice. One
21 student in the class shall prepare a paper on
said subject that shall be read to the class,
thoroughly discussed, and understood; this paper

Board of Education 91

1 shall be given to the teacher, and he shall not
allow it or a copy of it to remain, but shall
3 destroy this paper.
Signatures. SECT. 3. The signature of the
teacher and of the President of the College
6 shall be on all certificates issued.
Remuneration and Free Scholarship. SECT. 4.
Tuition of class instruction in the Board of
9 Education shall be $100.00. The bearer of a
card of free scholarship from the President,
Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, shall be entitled to
12 a free course in this department on presenta-
tion of the card to the teacher. Only the
President gives free admission to classes.
15 Surplus Funds. SECT. 5. Any surplus funds
left in the hands of the Board of Education
shall be paid over annually to the Treasurer of
18 The Mother Church.
Primary Students. SECT. 6. Students of
Christian Science, duly instructed therein and
21 with good moral records, not having the certifi-
cate of C.S.D. may enter the Normal class in
the Board of Education, which will be held once
24 in three years beginning A.D. 1907; provided
their diplomas are for three consecutive years
under Mrs. Eddy's daily conversation on Chris-

92 Church By-Laws Art. XXX

1 tian Science, or from the Massachusetts Meta-
physical College Board of Education.
3 Healing Better than Teaching. SECT. 7.
Healing the sick and the sinner with Truth dem-
onstrates what we affirm of Christian Science,
6 and nothing can substitute this demonstration.
I recommend that each member of this Church
shall strive to demonstrate by his or her practice,
9 that Christian Science heals the sick quickly and
wholly, thus proving this Science to be all that
we claim for it.
12 If both husband and wife are found duly quali-
fied to teach Christian Science, either one, not
both, should teach yearly one class.
15 Not Members of The Mother Church. SECT. 8.
No person shall receive instructions in Chris-
tian Science in any class in the Massachusetts
18 Metaphysical College, nor receive the degree of
C.S.B. or C.S.D., who is not a member of The
First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,
21 Mass.
Only those persons who are members of this
Church and possessed of the qualifications named
24 in Sect. 9 of Article XXVI of these By-Laws
shall be deemed loyal teachers of Christian
Science.

Board of Lectureship 93

1 BOARD OF LECTURESHIP

Article XXXI

3 ORGANIZATION AND DUTIES

Election. SECTION 1. This Church shall
maintain a Board of Lectureship, the members of
6 which shall be elected annually on Monday pre-
ceding the Annual Meeting, subject to the ap-
proval of the Pastor Emeritus. The lecture year
9 shall begin July 1 of each year.
Duty of Lecturers. SECT. 2. It is the duty
of the Board of Lectureship to include in each
12 lecture a true and just reply to public topics
condemning Christian Science, and to bear testi-
mony to the facts pertaining to the life of the
15 Pastor Emeritus. Each member shall mail to
the Clerk of this Church copies of his lectures
before delivering them.
18 No Disruption of Branch Churches. SECT. 3.
The Board of Lectureship is not allowed in any-
wise to meddle with nor to disrupt the organiza-

94 Church By-Laws Art. XXXI

1 tion of branch churches. The lecturer can invite
churches within the city whither he is called to
3 unite in their attendance on his lecture, and so
make for their churches a less lecture fee; but
the churches shall decide their action.
6 Receptions. SECT. 4. As a rule there should
be no receptions nor festivities after a lecture on
Christian Science, but there may occur excep-
9 tions. If there be an individual who goes to hear
and deride truth, he should go away contemplat-
ing truth; and he who goes to seek truth should
12 have the opportunity to depart in quiet thought
on that subject.
Circuit Lecturer. SECT. 5. Upon the written
15 request of Mrs. Eddy, The Mother Church shall
appoint a Circuit Lecturer. His term of office, if
approved, shall not be less than three years. He
18 shall lecture in the United States, in Canada, in
Great Britain and Ireland.
A member shall neither resign nor transfer
21 this sacred office.

Board of Lectureship 95

1 Article XXXII

CALLS FOR LECTURES

3 From the Directors. SECTION 1. When the
need is apparent, the Christian Science Board of
Directors of The Mother Church may call on
6 any member of this Board of Lectureship to
lecture at such places and at such times as the
cause of Christian Science demands.
9 From Branch Churches. SECT. 2. The
branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, may apply
through their clerks to a member of this Board
12 of Lectureship for a speaker, and one shall be
assigned them by the Board.
From Societies. SECT. 3. If called for, a
15 member of the Board may lecture for a Society.
Annual Lectures. SECT. 4. The Mother
Church and the branch churches shall call on
18 the Board of Lectureship annually for one or
more lectures.
No Lectures by Readers. SECT. 5. No lec-
21 ture shall be given by a Reader during his term
of Readership. The duties alone of a Reader are
ample.

96 Church By-Laws Art. XXXII

1 No Wednesday Evening Lectures. SECT. 6.
The Board of Lectureship shall not appoint a
3 lecture for Wednesday evening.
Lecture Fee. SECT. 7. The lecture fee shall
be left to the discretion of the lecturer.
6 Expenses. SECT. 8. The lecturer's traveling
expenses and the cost of hall shall be paid by
the church that employs him.
9 Exceptional Cases. SECT. 9. If a lecturer
receive a call to lecture in a place where he sees
there is special need, and the local church is un-
12 able to meet the expense, he is at liberty to supply
that need and trust to contributions for his fee.

Committee on Publication 97

1 COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION

Article XXXIII

3 In The Mother Church. SECTION 1. There
shall be appointed by The Mother Church a Com-
mittee on Publication, which shall consist of one
6 loyal Christian Scientist who lives in Boston, and
he shall be manager of the Committees on Pub-
lication throughout the United States, Canada,
9 Great Britain and Ireland. He shall be elected
annually by a unanimous vote of the Christian
Science Board of Directors and the consent of
12 the Pastor Emeritus given in her own handwrit-
ing, and shall receive an annual salary, paid quar-
terly, of not less than four thousand dollars.
15 Duties. SECT. 2. It shall be the duty of the
Committee on Publication to correct in a Chris-
tian manner impositions on the public in regard
18 to Christian Science, injustices done Mrs. Eddy
or members of this Church by the daily press,
by periodicals or circulated literature of any sort.

98 Church By-Laws Art. XXXIII

1 This Committee on Publication shall be respon-
sible for correcting or having corrected a false
3 newspaper article which has not been replied to
by other Scientists, or which has been forwarded
to this Committee for the purpose of having him
6 reply to it. If the correction by the Committee
on Publication is not promptly published by the
periodical in which it is desirable that this cor-
9 rection shall appear, this Committee shall im-
mediately apply for aid to the Committee on
Business. Furthermore, the Committee on Pub-
12 lication shall read the last proof sheet of such
an article and see that it is published according
to copy; he shall circulate in large quantities
15 the papers containing such an article, sending a
copy to the Clerk of the Church. It shall also
be the duty of the Committee on Publication to
18 have published each year in a leading Boston
newspaper the letter sent to the Pastor Emeritus
by the Church members in annual meeting as-
21 sembled. The State Committees on Publication
act under the direction of this Committee on
Publication.
24 In Branch Churches. SECT. 3. The Readers
of the three largest branch churches in each State
of the United States and in Canada shall annually

Committee on Publication 99

1 and alternately appoint a Committee on Publi-
cation to serve in their localities. For the pur-
3 poses of this By-Law, the State of California shall
be considered as though it were two States, the
dividing line being the 36th parallel of latitude.
6 Each county of Great Britain and Ireland, except
as hereinafter specified, through the Readers of
its three largest branch churches, shall annually
9 and alternately appoint a Committee on Publica-
tion to serve in its locality. Each church is not
necessarily confined to its own members in select-
12 ing this Committee, but if preferred, can appoint
a Committee on Publication who is in good fel-
lowship with another Church of Christ, Scientist.
15 This By-Law applies to all States except Mas-
sachusetts, in which the Committee on Publica-
tion is elected only by the Christian Science Board
18 of Directors. The Committee for the counties
in which London, England, is situated shall be
appointed by the Christian Science Board of
21 Directors, and he shall, in addition to his other
duties, act as District Manager of the Committees
on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland.
24 Appointment. SECT. 4. The Committees on
Publication shall consist of men generally. Each
State Committee shall be appointed by the First
27 and Second Readers of the church employing

100 Church By-Laws Art. XXXIII

1 said Committee. If prior to the meeting of the
church for the election of officers, Mrs. Eddy
3 shall send to the First Reader of the church the
name of a candidate for its Committee on Publi-
cation, the Readers shall appoint said candidate.
6 Or if she shall send a special request to any
Committee on Publication, the request shall be
carried out according to her directions.
9 Removal from Office. SECT. 5. If the Com-
mittee on Publication neglects to fulfil the obli-
gations of his office according to these By-Laws,
12 and this becomes apparent to the Christian Sci-
ence Board of Directors, it shall be the duty of
the Directors immediately to act upon this im-
15 portant matter in accordance with said By-Laws.
The Christian Science Board of Directors may
notify any Church of Christ, Scientist, to remove
18 its Committee on Publication and to appoint an-
other Committee to fill the vacancy; and it shall
be the duty of that church to comply with this
21 request. In such cases it shall be the privilege
of this Board to name the Committee if it so
desires, and any Committee so named by the
24 Board shall be elected by the branch church.
Case of Necessity. SECT. 6. If a suitable
man is not obtainable for Committee on Publica-
27 tion, a suitable woman shall be elected. If at

Committee on Publication 101

1 any time the Christian Science Board of Direc-
tors shall determine that the manager of the
3 general Committee on Publication needs an as-
sistant, the Board shall, with the approval of the
Pastor Emeritus, appoint an assistant manager,
6 who shall receive an adequate salary from The
Mother Church.

102 Church By-Laws Art. XXXIV

1 CHURCH-BUILDING

Article XXXIV

3 Building Committee. SECTION 1. There
shall be a Building Committee consisting of
not less than three members, and this committee
6 shall not be dissolved until the new church
edifice is completed. This committee shall elect,
dismiss, or supply a vacancy of its members by
9 a majority vote.
Designation of Deeds. SECT. 2. All deeds
of further purchases of land for The First
12 Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.,
shall have named in them all the trusts mentioned
in the deeds given by Albert Metcalf and E.
15 Noyes Whitcomb in March, 1903; but this rule
shall not apply to land purchased for any purpose
other than the erection of a church edifice. Also
18 there shall be incorporated in all such deeds
the phrase, "Mary Baker Eddy's Church, The

Church Building 103

1 Mother Church or The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, in Boston, Mass."
3 The Mother Church Building. SECT. 3. The
edifice erected in 1894 for The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., shall neither
6 be demolished, nor removed from the site where
it was built, without the written consent of the
Pastor Emeritus, Mary Baker Eddy.

104 Church By-Laws Art. XXXV

1 CHURCH MANUAL

Article XXXV

3 For The Mother Church Only. SECTION 1.
The Church Manual of The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., written by
6 Mary Baker Eddy and copyrighted, is adapted
to The Mother Church only. It stands alone,
uniquely adapted to form the budding thought
9 and hedge it about with divine Love. This
Manual shall not be revised without the written
consent of its author.
12 Seventy-third Edition the Authority. SECT. 2.
The Board of Directors, the Committee on Bible
Lessons, and the Board of Trustees shall each
15 keep a copy of the Seventy-third Edition and of
subsequent editions of the Church Manual; and
if a discrepancy appears in any revised edition,
18 these editions shall be cited as authority.

Church Building 105

1 Amendment of By-Laws. SECT. 3. No new
Tenet or By-Law shall be adopted, nor any
3 Tenet or By-Law amended or annulled, with-
out the written consent of Mary Baker Eddy, the
author of our textbook, SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

Appendix

1 Special Instructions
Regarding Applications for Church Membership

3 1. Loyal members of The Mother Church are
eligible to approve candidates to unite with this
Church.
6 2. No persons are eligible to countersign ap-
plications except loyal students of Mrs. Eddy,
Directors, and students of the Board of Educa-
9 tion who have been given a degree, and are mem-
bers of The Mother Church.
3. Those who approve applicants should have
12 applications returned to them after being filled
out by the applicants, as required by Article
V, Sect. 6, and should compare them with
15 the forms here given, and see that names are
legibly written, before sending them to the
Clerk of the Church. If not correct, the appli-
18 cant will be notified, and new applications will

110 Appendix

1 be required, as none will be returned that are
not correctly made out. This requirement is to
3 prevent applications being duplicated and the
confusion that might result therefrom. It is
important that these seemingly strict conditions
6 be exactly complied with, as the names of the
members of The Mother Church will be recorded
in the history of the Church and become a part
9 thereof.
4. All names, whether of applicants, ap-
provers, or countersigners, must be plainly
12 written, and one, at least, of the given names of
each, written in full. Initials only of first names
will not be received. Women must sign "Miss"
15 or "Mrs." before their names as the case may be.
All names must be written the same in all
places where they are required.

Instructions to Applicants 111

1 TO APPLICANTS

1. In filling out the application blank, one
3 of the Christian names must be written in full.
Initials alone will not be received.
2. If the applicant is a married woman she
6 must sign her own Christian name, not her hus-
band's, and prefix her signature with "Mrs;"
unmarried women must sign "Miss."
9 3. There are two regular forms of applica-
tion. 1. For those who have studied Christian
Science with an authorized teacher; 2. For those
12 who have not studied Christian Science with a
teacher.
Applicants will find the chief points of these
15 instructions illustrated in Form 1 and Form 2,
on pages 114 and 118.
4. Those whose teachers are deceased, absent,
18 or disloyal, or those whose teachers refuse, with-
out sufficient cause, to sign applications (see
Art. V, Sect. 4), will be furnished special forms
21 on application to the Clerk.

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1 5. When branch churches are designated by
number, as First Church, Second Church, etc.,
3 the number must be written First, Second, as
shown on page 118. The article "the" either
capitalized (The), or small (the), must not be
6 used before titles of branch churches. See Ar-
ticle XXIII, Sect. 2.
6. If the applicant is not a member of a
9 branch church, he should fill out his applica-
tion in this respect according to the form on
page 114.

Application Forms

114 Appendix

Application I

PROPERLY SIGNED AND ENDORSED,
ACCORDING TO ARTICLE V, SECT. 2

If you have been taught by a loyal student who has taken a degree at the Massachu-
setts Metaphysical College, or by one who has passed an examination by the
Board of Education, fill this blank.

FORM 1.

The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., is designed to be built on the rock of Christ — Truth and Life — and to reflect the Church Triumphant.
One who is not a member of any church, excepting a branch church of Christ, Scientist, who loves Christian Science, and reads understandingly the Bible, and SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES by Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, and other works by this author, and who is Christianly qualified and can enter into full fellowship with the Tenets and Rules of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., is eligible to membership.

To The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.

William B. Johnson, C.S.B., Clerk.

I hereby make application for membership, and subscribe to the Tenets and the By-Laws of the Church.
My teacher in Christian Science is

__________James B. Brown, C.S.D. ______________

I am not a member of any church.

Instructions to Applicants 115

Application I — (Continued)

PROPERLY SIGNED AND ENDORSED
ACCORDING TO ARTICLE V, SECT. 2

FORM 1, — (Continued.)
I was formerly a member of the______________________
___________________________________ denomination,
but have definitely severed my connection therewith.
Name__________Mrs. Jennie W. Field, C.S.____________
Street and Number____________18 Forest St.,__________
Town or City_______________________Chicago,________
State___________________________________Ill._______ Date_____________________Jan. 2nd, 1901.___________

I cordially approve the applicant.

(a)___________________James B. Brown, C.S.D._______

Countersigned by__________________________________

DO NOT DETACH.

TO THE APPLICANT: Name________________Mrs. Jennie W. Field, C.S.,______
Please fill out the Street and Number__________________18 Forest St.,_____
following for the use Town or City__________________________Chicago,______
of the Treasurer of State________________________________Ill.___________
the Church:

116 Appendix

Application I

PROPERLY SIGNED AND ENDORSED,
ACCORDING TO ARTICLE V, SECT. 2

If you have been taught by a loyal student who has taken a degree at the Massachu-
setts Metaphysical College, or by one who has passed an examination by the
Board of Education, fill this blank.

FORM 1.

To The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.

William B. Johnson, C.S.B., Clerk.

I hereby make application for membership, and subscribe to the Tenets and the By-Laws of the Church.
My teacher in Christian Science is

__________James B. Brown, C.S.D. ______________

I am not a member of any church, excepting _________
Church of Christ, Scientist, at _____________________

Instructions to Applicants 117

Application I — (Continued)

PROPERLY SIGNED AND ENDORSED
ACCORDING TO ARTICLE V, SECT. 2

I cordially approve the applicant.

(a)___________________James B. Brown, C.S.D._______

Countersigned by__________________________________

DO NOT DETACH.

118 Appendix

Application II

PROPERLY SIGNED AND ENDORSED,
ACCORDING TO ARTICLE V, SECT. 2

If you have been taught by a loyal student who has taken a degree at the Massachu-
setts Metaphysical College, or by one who has passed an examination by the
Board of Education, fill this blank.

FORM 2.

One who is not a member of any church, excepting a branch church of Christ, Scientist, who loves Christian Science, and reads understandingly the Bible, AND SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, by Reverend
Mary Baker Eddy, and other works by this author, and who
is Christianly qualified and can enter into full fellowship
with the Tenets and Rules of The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, in Boston, Mass., is eligible to membership.

To The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.

William B. Johnson, C.S.B., Clerk.

I hereby make application for membership, and subscribe
to the Tenets and the By-Laws of the Church. I have not studied Christian Science with a teacher, and am not a
member of any church excepting Second Church of Christ,
Scientist, at New York, N. Y.

I was formerly a member of the____________________
___________________________________ denomination,

but have definitely severed my connection therewith.

Instructions to Applicants 119

Application II — (Continued)

SIGNED, ENDORSED, AND COUNTERSIGNED
ACCORDING TO ARTICLE V, SECT. 2

FORM 2, — (Continued.)

Name_________________Miss Emma L. French_________

Street and Number__________293 Emerson St.,_________

Town or City_____________________New York_________

State______________________________N. Y. _________

Date__________________Jan. 2nd, 1901.______________

I cordially approve this applicant.

(a)__________________Miss Mary E. Grant, C.S.________

Countersigned by_______James B. Brown, C.S.D.________

DO NOT DETACH.

TO THE APPLICANT: Name____________________Miss Emma L. French,______

Please fill out the Street and Number_______________ 293 Emerson St.,_____

following for the use Town or City_________________________ New York ,_____
of the Treasurer of State___________________________________N. Y. ._____
the Church:

120 Appendix

Present Order of Services in
The Mother Church and Branch Churches
Republished from the Sentinel

SUNDAY SERVICES

1. Hymn.
2. Reading a Scriptural Selection.
3. Silent Prayer, followed by the audible
repetition of the Lord's Prayer with its spirit-
ual interpretation.
4. Hymn.
5. Announcing necessary notices.
6. Solo.
7. Reading the Explanatory Note on first leaf
of Quarterly.
8. Announcing the subject of the Lesson-
Sermon, and reading the Golden Text.
9. Reading the Scriptural Selection, entitled
"Responsive Reading," alternately by the First
Reader and the congregation.
10. Reading the Lesson-Sermon. (After the
Second Reader reads the BIBLE references of

Order of Services 121

the first Section of the Lesson, the First Reader
makes the following announcement: "As an-
nounced in the explanatory note, I shall now
read correlative passages from the Christian
Science textbook, SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH
KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, by Mary Baker Eddy.")
11. Collection.
12. Hymn.
13. Reading the Scientific Statement of
Being, and the correlative SCRIPTURE accord-
ing to I John 3:1-3.
14. Pronouncing Benediction.

The services should be preceded and followed
by organ or piano music of an appropriate char-
acter in all cases where this is possible.
On the first Sunday of each month Article VIII,
Sect. 1, A Rule for Motives and Acts, is to be
read.

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WEDNESDAY MEETINGS

1. Hymn.
2. Reading from the BIBLE, and correlative
passages from SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY
TO THE SCRIPTURES.
3. Silent Prayer, followed by the audible repe-
tition of the Lord's Prayer, its spiritual interpre-
tation being omitted.
4. Hymn.
5. Announcing necessary notices.
6. Experiences, testimonies, and remarks on
Christian Science.
7. Closing Hymn.

The services should be preceded and followed
by organ or piano music of an appropriate char-
acter in all cases where this is possible.

Order of Services 123

THANKSGIVING DAY

Order of Service for The Mother Church and
Branch Churches

1. Hymn.
2. Reading the Thanksgiving Proclamation
of the President of the United States, or the
Governor of the state, or both.
3. Reading a Scriptural Selection.
4. Silent Prayer, followed by the audible
repetition of the Lord's Prayer with its spirit-
ual interpretation.
5. Hymn.
6. Reading the Explanatory Note on the
first leaf of the Quarterly.
7. Announcing the subject of the Lesson-
Sermon, and reading the Golden Text.
8. Responsive Reading by the First Reader
and the congregation.

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9. Reading the Lesson-Sermon prepared by
the Bible Lesson Committee.
10. Solo.
11. Testimonies by Christian Scientists,
appropriate for the occasion.
12. Hymn.
13. Reading the Scientific Statement of
Being, and the correlative SCRIPTURE according
to I John 3:1-3.
14. Pronouncing Benediction.

No collection is to be taken at this service.

The services should be preceded and followed
by organ or piano music of an appropriate char-
acter in all cases where this is possible.

Order of Services 125

Present Order of Communion Services
in Branch Churches

1. Hymn.
2. Reading a Scriptural Selection.
3. Silent Prayer, followed by the audible
repetition of the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual
interpretation.
4. Hymn.
5. Announcing necessary notices.
6. Reading Tenets of The Mother Church.
7. Collection and Solo.
8. Reading the Explanatory Note on first leaf
of Quarterly.
9. Announcing the subject of the Lesson-
Sermon, and reading the Golden Text.
10. Reading the Scriptural Selection entitled
"Responsive Reading" alternately by the First
Reader and the congregation.
11. Reading the Lesson-Sermon. (After the
Second Reader reads the BIBLE references of the
first Section of the Lesson, the First Reader

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makes the following announcement: "As an-
nounced in the explanatory note, I shall now read
correlative passages from the Christian Science
textbook, SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO
THE SCRIPTURES, by Mary Baker Eddy.")
12. The First Reader briefly invites the con-
gregation to kneel in silent Communion. This is
concluded by the audible repetition of the Lord's
Prayer (spiritual interpretation omitted).
13. Singing the Doxology:

"Be Thou, O God, exalted high;
And as Thy glory fills the sky,
So let it be on earth displayed,
Till Thou art here and now obeyed."

14. Reading the Scientific Statement of
Being and the correlative SCRIPTURE accord-
ing to I John 3:1-3.
15. Pronouncing Benediction.

The Church Tenets shall be read at this service.
The services should be preceded and followed
by organ or piano music of an appropriate char-
acter in all cases where this is possible.

Order of Exercises 127

Order of Exercises for the Sunday
School of The Mother Church
and Branch Churches¹

1. Call to order by the Superintendent.
2. Hymn.
6 3. Subject of the lesson announced; Golden
Text repeated by the children; Responsive
Reading.
9 4. Silent prayer, followed by the audible
repetition of the Lord's Prayer in unison.
5. Instruction in classes, in accordance with
12 Sections 2 and 3 of Article XX of the Manual
of The Mother Church.
6. Entire school reassembles.
15 7. Hymn.
8. Scientific Statement of Being read by the
Superintendent.
18 9. School dismissed.

¹If a collection is taken, it should be taken in the
classes before they reassemble.

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1 DEED OF TRUST

The following is a Copy of the Deed of Trust
3 Conveying Land for Church Edifice

Know all Men by these Presents,

That I Mary Baker G. Eddy of Concord in
6 the County of Merrimack and State of New
Hampshire in consideration of one dollar to
me paid by Ira O. Knapp of Boston, Mas-
9 sachusetts, William B. Johnson of Boston,
Massachusetts, Joseph S. Eastaman of Chel-
sea, Massachusetts, and Stephen A. Chase of
12 Fall River, Massachusetts, the receipt whereof
is hereby acknowledged, and, also in consider-
ation of the trusts and uses hereinafter men-
15 tioned and established, do hereby give, bargain,
sell, and convey to the said Ira O. Knapp, Wil-
liam B. Johnson, Joseph S. Eastaman, and
18 Stephen A. Chase as trustees as hereinafter
provided and to their legitimate successors in

Deed of Trust 129

1 office forever, a certain parcel of land situate
on Falmouth street in said Boston, bounded and
3 described as follows: Beginning at the junction
of Falmouth street, and a forty-foot street now
called Caledonia street; thence running South-
6 west on said Falmouth street one hundred and
sixteen and eighty-eight hundredths feet; thence
Northwest at a right angle to a point where a
9 line drawn at right angles to said forty-foot
street at a point thereon one hundred and six-
teen and fifty-five hundredths feet Northwest
12 from the point of beginning meets the said
boundary at right angles to Falmouth street,
sixty-six and seventy-eight hundredths feet;
15 thence at an obtuse angle on said line at right
angles to said forty-foot street sixty-seven and
thirty-five hundredths feet to said forty-foot
18 street; thence Southeasterly on said forty-foot
street one hundred and sixteen and fifty-five
hundredths feet to the point of beginning;
21 containing seven thousand eight hundred and
twenty-eight square feet more or less, and sub-
ject to the agreements and restrictions men-
24 tioned in a deed recorded in Suffolk Registry
of Deeds Lib. 1719, Fol. 83 so far as the same
are now legally operative.

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1 This deed of conveyance is made upon the
following express trusts and conditions which
3 the said grantees by accepting this deed agree
and covenant for themselves and their succes-
sors in office to fully perform and fulfil.

6 1. Said grantees shall be known as the "Chris-
tian Science Board of Directors," and shall con-
stitute a perpetual body or corporation under and
9 in accordance with section one, Chapter 39 of the
Public Statutes of Massachusetts.¹ Whenever a
vacancy occurs in said Board the remaining mem-
12 bers shall within thirty days fill the same by elec-
tion; but no one shall be eligible to that office
who is not in the opinion of the remaining mem-
15 bers of the Board a firm and consistent believer
in the doctrines of Christian Science as taught in
a book entitled "SCIENCE AND HEALTH," by Mary
18 Baker G. Eddy beginning with the seventy-first
edition thereof.

¹The deacons, church wardens, or other similar officers of
21 churches or religious societies, and the trustees of the
Methodist Episcopal churches, appointed according to the
discipline and usages thereof, shall, if citizens of this
24 commonwealth, be deemed bodies corporate for the purpose of
taking and holding in succession all grants and donations,
whether of real or personal estate, made either to them and
27 their successors, or to their respective churches, or to the
poor of their churches.
Editor's note: In May 1971, this statute (renumbered
30 section one of Chapter 68) was amended by substituting
"residents" for "citizens."

Deed of Trust 131

1 2. Said Board shall within five years from the
date hereof build or cause to be built upon said
3 lot of land a suitable and convenient church edi-
fice, the cost of which shall not be less than fifty
thousand dollars.

6 3. When said church building is completed
said Board shall elect a pastor, reader or speaker
to fill the pulpit who shall be a genuine Christian
9 Scientist; they shall maintain public worship in
accordance with the doctrines of Christian Sci-
ence in said church, and for this purpose they
12 are fully empowered to make any and all neces-
sary rules and regulations.

4. Said Board of Directors shall not suffer
15 or allow any building to be erected upon said
lot except a church building or edifice, nor shall
they allow said church building or any part
18 thereof to be used for any other purpose than
for the ordinary and usual uses of a church.

5. Said Board of Directors shall not allow or
21 permit in said church building any preaching or
other religious services which shall not be con-
sonant and in strict harmony with the doctrines
24 and practice of Christian Science as taught and
explained by Mary Baker G. Eddy in the seventy-

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1 first edition of her book entitled "SCIENCE AND
HEALTH," which is soon to be issued, and in any
3 subsequent edition thereof.

6. The congregation which shall worship in
said church shall be styled "The First Church
6 of Christ, Scientist."

7. Said Directors shall not sell or mortgage
the land hereby conveyed; but they shall see
9 that all taxes and legal assessments on said
property are promptly paid.

8. Said church building shall not be removed
12 from said lot except for the purpose of rebuild-
ing thereon a more expensive or a more conven-
ient structure in which said doctrines of Christian
15 Science only shall be preached and practised. If
said church building is removed for either of
the purposes above set forth, any and all tablets
18 and inscriptions which are or shall be upon said
church building at the time of removal shall be
removed therefrom and placed upon the walls
21 of the new edifice. If said building is burned,
the Directors shall forthwith proceed to rebuild
the church.

24 9. Said Directors shall maintain regular
preaching, reading or speaking in said church

Deed of Trust 133

1 on each Sabbath, and an omission to have and
maintain such preaching, reading or speaking
3 for one year in succession shall be deemed a
breach of this condition.

10. Whenever said Directors shall determine
6 that it is inexpedient to maintain preaching,
reading or speaking in said church in accord-
ance with the terms of this deed, they are
9 authorized and required to reconvey forthwith
said lot of land with the building thereon to
Mary Baker G. Eddy, her heirs and assigns
12 forever by a proper deed of conveyance.

11. The omission or neglect on the part of
said Directors to strictly comply with any of
15 the conditions herein contained shall constitute
a breach thereof, and the title hereby conveyed
shall revert to the grantor Mary Baker G. Eddy,
18 her heirs and assigns forever, upon her entry
upon said land and taking possession thereof
for such breach.
21 To Have and to Hold the above granted
premises with all the privileges and appurte-
nances thereon belonging to said grantees and
24 their successors in office to the uses and trusts
above described forever.

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1 And the said grantor for herself and her heirs,
executors and administrators covenants with the
3 said grantees and their successors in office that
she is lawfully seized in fee simple of the afore-
said premises, that they are free from all incum-
6 brances not herein mentioned or referred to, that
she has good right to sell and convey the same
to the said grantees and their successors in office
9 as aforesaid, and that she will and her heirs,
executors, and administrators shall, warrant and
defend the same to the said grantees and their
12 successors in office forever against the lawful
claims and demands of all persons.
In witness whereof I the said Mary Baker G.
15 Eddy have hereto set my hand and seal this 1st
day of September, 1892.
MARY BAKER G. EDDY.

18 Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of
Laura E. Sargent.
R. E. Walker.
21 September 1st, 1892.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, ] ss.
MERRIMACK. ]
24 Then personally appeared the above named
Mary Baker G. Eddy and acknowledged the

Deed of Trust 135

1 foregoing instrument to be her free act and
deed,
3 Before me
R.E. WALKER.
Notary Public.
6 September 2, 1892.

SUFFLOK REGISTRY OF DEEDS, Lib. 2081, Fol. 257.

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1 DEED CONVEYING LAND FOR
CHURCH PURPOSES

3 METCALF to KNAPP et al. Trs.
Libro 2886, Fol. 521.

Know all Men,

6 That I, Albert Metcalf, the grantor in a cer-
tain deed given to Ira O. Knapp and others
dated October 23, 1896, and recorded with Suf-
9 folk Deeds, Book 2591, page 398, do hereby de-
clare that the land conveyed by said deed was
conveyed to the grantees therein, as they are the
12 Christian Science Board of Directors, upon the
trusts, but not subject to the conditions men-
tioned in the deed creating said Board given by
15 Mary Baker G. Eddy to Ira O. Knapp and
others, dated September 1st, 1892, and recorded
with Suffolk Deeds, Book 2081, page 257. In
18 addition to the trusts contained in said deed of
September 1, 1892, from Mary Baker G. Eddy,

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1 this property is conveyed on the further trusts
that no new Tenet or By-Law shall be adopted,
3 nor any Tenet or By-Law amended or annulled
by the grantees unless the written consent of said
Mary Baker G. Eddy, the author of the textbook
6 "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIP-
TURES," be given therefor, or unless at the writ-
ten request of Mrs. Eddy the Executive Members
9 of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, (for-
merly called the "First Members,") by a two-
thirds vote of all their number, decide so to do.
12 And that the same inscription which is on the
outside of the present church edifice shall be
placed on any new church erected on said lot.
15 And in consideration of one dollar to me paid
by said Ira O. Knapp, William B. Johnson,
Joseph Armstrong and Stephen A. Chase, the
18 receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, I do
hereby confirm the deed as above mentioned, and
do grant and release unto them, their heirs, suc-
21 cessors and assigns in trust as aforesaid, the
premises therein described.
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my
24 hand and seal this nineteenth day of March, A. D.
nineteen hundred and three.

ALBERT METCALF. [Seal]

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1 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ] ss. MARCH 20th, 1903.
SUFFOLK ]

3 Then said Albert Metcalf acknowledged the
foregoing instrument to be his free act and
deed.

6 Before me
MALCOLM MCCLOUD.
Justice of the Peace.

9 March 20, 1903, at twelve o'clock and sixteen minutes P.M.
Received, Entered and Examined.

Attest: THOS. F. TEMPLE, Reg.

12 A true copy from the RECORDS OF DEEDS FOR THE COUNTY
OF SUFFOLK, Lib. 2886, Fol. 521.

Attest: CHAS. W. KIMBALL, Asst. Reg.
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