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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Manual of the Mother Church + The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts + +Author: Mary Baker Eddy + +Release Date: March 23, 2006 [EBook #18039] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MANUAL OF THE MOTHER CHURCH *** + + + + + + + + + + + +Eighty-Ninth edition + +Manual of The Mother Church + +The First Church of Christ + +Scientist + +In Boston, Massachusetts + +BY + +MARY BAKER EDDY + +Discoverer and founder of Christian Science +And author of Science and Health with +Key to the Scriptures + +PUBLISHED BY THE +TRUSTEES UNDER THE WILL OF MARY BAKER G. EDDY + +BOSTON, U.S.A. + + +Authorized literature of +The first Church of Christ, Scientist +In Boston, Massachusetts + + 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 + +PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA + + + + +EXTRACT FROM A LETTER IN "MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS" + +_By Mary Baker Eddy_ + + +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 not arbitrary opinions nor dictatorial demands, +such as one person might impose on another. They were impelled by +a power not one's own, were written at different dates, and as +the occasion required. They sprang from necessity, the logic of +events,--from the immediate demand for them as a help that must +be supplied to 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 do for the +race what absolute doctrines destined for future generations might +not accomplish. + + + + +TENETS + +_of The Mother Church_ + +_The First Church of Christ, Scientist_ + +_To be signed by those uniting with The First Church of Christ, +Scientist, in Boston, Mass._ + +1. As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as +our sufficient guide to eternal Life. + +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 God's image and likeness. + +3. We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin +and the spiritual understanding 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 evidence of divine, +efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity with God through Christ Jesus +the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, +through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet +in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death. + +5. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection +served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness +of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter. + +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 unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure. + +MARY BAKER EDDY + + + + +HISTORICAL SKETCH + + +In the spring of 1879, a little band of earnest seekers after Truth +went into deliberations over forming a church without creeds, to +be called the "CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST." They were members +of evangelical churches, and students of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy in +Christian Science, and were known as "Christian Scientists." + +At a meeting of the Christian Scientist Association, April 12, 1879, +on motion of Mrs. Eddy, it was voted,--To organize a church designed +to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should +reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing. + +Mrs. Eddy was appointed on the committee to 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 error, +heals the sick, and restores the lost Israel: for "the stone which +the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner." + +The charter for the Church was obtained June, 1879,[1] and the same +month the members, twenty-six in number, extended a call to Mary +Baker Eddy to become their pastor. She accepted the call, and was +ordained A. D. 1881. Although walking through deep waters, the little +Church went steadily on, increasing in numbers, and at every epoch +saying, + +"Hitherto hath the Lord helped us." + +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 +reorganized, under her jurisdiction, the Christian Science Church +and named it, THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST. + +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 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 By-Law adopted March 17, 1903, changed the title of +"First Members" to "Executive Members." (On July 8, 1908, the By-Laws +pertaining to "Executive Members" were repealed.) + +THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, IN BOSTON, MASS., is designed +to be built on the Rock, 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 degree the Church +Universal and Triumphant. + +[1] Steps were taken to promote the Church of Christ, Scientist, in +April, May and June; formal organization was accomplished and the +charter obtained in August, 1879. + + + + +CHURCH OFFICERS + + +Rev. MARY BAKER EDDY Pastor Emeritus + +GEORGE WENDELL ADAMS Christian Science Board of Directors +CHARLES E. HEITMAN +Mrs. NELVIA E. RITCHIE +FRANCIS LYSTER JANDRON +ALFRED PITTMAN + +Mrs. HELEN CHAFFEE ELWELL President + +THOMAS E. HURLEY First Reader + Conducts services and reads from + the Christian Science textbook, + "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE + SCRIPTURES" by Mary Baker Eddy + +Mrs. GEORGINA TENNANT Second Reader + Reads from the SCRIPTURES + +GORDON V. COMER Clerk, 107 Falmouth Street, + Boston, Mass. + +ROY GARRETT WATSON Treasurer, 107 Falmouth Street, + Boston, Mass. + +1947-1948 + + + + +CHURCH BY-LAWS + + +CHURCH OFFICERS + + +Article I--NAMES, ELECTION, AND DUTIES + +Names. SECTION 1. The Church officers shall consist of the Pastor +Emeritus, a Board of Directors, a President, a Clerk, a Treasurer, +and two Readers. + +President. SECTION 2. The President shall be elected, subject to the +approval of the Pastor Emeritus, by the Board of Directors[2] on +Monday preceding the annual meeting of the Church. The President +shall hold office for one year, and the same person is eligible for +election but once in three years. + +[2] See under "Deed of Trust" for incorporation of the "Christian +Science Board of Directors." + +Clerk and Treasurer. SECTION 3. The term of office for the Clerk and +the Treasurer of this Church (also for the editors and the manager +of The Christian Science Publishing Society, and the manager of the +general Committee on Publication in Boston) is one year each, dating +from the time of election to office. Incumbents 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 vote of the +Christian Science Board of Directors and the consent of the Pastor +Emeritus given in her own handwriting. + +Readers. SECTION 4. Every third year Readers shall be elected in The +Mother Church by the Board of Directors, which shall inform the +Pastor Emeritus of the names of its candidates before they are +elected; and if she objects, said candidates shall not be chosen. +The Directors shall fix the salaries of the Readers. + +Directors. SECTION 5. The Christian Science Board of Directors shall +consist of five members. 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 Mrs. Eddy shall dismiss a member. +Members shall neither report the discussions of this Board, nor those +with Mrs. Eddy. + +Church Business. SECTION 6. The business of The Mother Church shall +be transacted by its Christian Science Board of Directors. The +manager of the general Committee on Publication in the United States +shall order no special action to be taken by said Committee that is +not named in the Manual of this Church without consulting with the +full Board of Directors of The Mother Church and receiving the +written consent of said Board. + +Publishing Buildings. SECTION 7. It shall be the duty of the +Christian Science Board of Directors to provide a suitable building +for the publication of _The Christian Science Journal_, _Christian +Science Sentinel_, _Der Herold der Christian Science_, and all other +Christian Science literature published by The Christian Science +Publishing Society. It shall also be the duty of the Christian +Science Board of Directors to provide suitable rooms, conveniently +and pleasantly located in the same building, for the publication and +sale of the books of which Mary Baker Eddy is, or may be, the author, +and of other literature connected therewith. + +Trusteeships and Syndicates. SECTION 8. Boards of Trustees and +Syndicates may be formed by The Mother Church, subject to the +approval of the Pastor Emeritus. + +Duties of Church Officers. SECTION 9. Law constitutes government, +and disobedience to the laws of The Mother Church must ultimate +in annulling its Tenets and By-Laws. Without a proper system of +government and form of action, nations, individuals, and religion are +unprotected; hence the necessity of this By-Law and the warning of +Holy Writ: "That servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared +not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with +many stripes." + +It is the duty of the Christian Science Board of Directors to watch +and make sure that the officers of this Church perform the functions +of their several offices promptly and well. If an 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 +resign his place or to perform his office faithfully; then failing to +do either, said officer shall be dismissed from this Church, and his +dismissal 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 the First Reader of a church, to inform the +Board of Directors of the failure of the Committee 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 complainant. + +If the Christian Science Board of Directors fails to fulfil the +requirements of this By-Law, and a member of this Church or the +Pastor Emeritus shall complain thereof to the Clerk and the complaint +be found valid, the Directors shall resign their office or perform +their functions faithfully. Failing to do thus, the Pastor Emeritus +shall appoint five suitable members of this Church to fill the +vacancy. The salary of the members of the Board of Directors shall +be at present two thousand five hundred dollars each annually. + + +Article II--READERS OF THE MOTHER CHURCH + +Election. SECTION 1. The Readers for The 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. + +Eligibility. SECTION 2. The Directors shall select intelligible +Readers who are exemplary Christians and good English scholars. +They must be members of The Mother Church. + +Removal. SECTION 3. If a Reader in The 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 Directors and the consent of the +Pastor Emeritus, and the vacancy supplied. + +First Reader's Residence. SECTION 4. Unless Mrs. Eddy requests +otherwise, the First Reader of The Mother Church shall occupy, during +his term of Readership, the house of the Pastor Emeritus, No. 385 +Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. The Board of Directors shall pay from +the Church funds the taxes and rent on this property; the Board shall +attend to the insurance before it expires, suitably furnish the +house, and keep the property in good repair, so long as Mrs. Eddy +does not occupy the house herself and the occupants are satisfactory +to her. + + +Article III--DUTIES OF READERS OF THE MOTHER CHURCH AND OF ITS +BRANCH CHURCHES + +Moral Obligations. SECTION 1. The Readers of The Mother Church and of +all its branch 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 Christian Science largely depends. They +must keep themselves unspotted from the world,--uncontaminated with +evil,--that the mental atmosphere they exhale shall promote health +and holiness, even that spiritual _animus_ so universally needed. + +First Readers' Duties. SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the First +Readers to conduct the principal part of the Sunday services, and +the Wednesday evening meetings. + +Suitable Selections. SECTION 3. The First Readers shall read, as +a part of the Wednesday evening services, selections from the +SCRIPTURES, and from SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES. + +Order of Reading. SECTION 4. The First Readers in the Christian +Science churches shall read the correlative texts in SCIENCE AND +HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES; and the Second Readers shall read +the BIBLE texts. The readings from the SCRIPTURES shall precede the +readings from SCIENCE AND HEALTH. The Readers shall not read from +copies or manuscripts, but from the books. + +Naming Book and Author. SECTION 5. The Readers of SCIENCE AND HEALTH +WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, before commencing to read from this book, +shall distinctly announce the full title of the book and give the +author's name. Such announcement shall be made but once during the +lesson. + +Readers in Branch Churches. SECTION 6. These Readers shall be members +of The Mother Church. They shall read understandingly and be well +educated. They shall make no remarks explanatory of the LESSON-SERMON +at any time, but they shall read all notices and remarks that may be +printed in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE QUARTERLY. This By-Law applies to +Readers in all the branch churches. + +Enforcement of By-Laws. SECTION 7. It shall be the duty of every +member of The Mother Church, who is a First Reader in a Church of +Christ, Scientist, to enforce the discipline and by-laws of the +church in which he is Reader. + +A Reader not a Leader. SECTION 8. The Church Reader shall not be a +Leader, but he shall maintain the Tenets, Rules, and discipline of +the Church. A Reader shall not be a President of a church. + + + + +CHURCH MEMBERSHIP + + +Article IV--QUALIFICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP + +Believe in Christian Science. SECTION 1. To become a member of The +Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, +Mass., the applicant must be a believer in the doctrines of Christian +Science, according to the platform and teaching contained in the +Christian Science textbook, SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE +SCRIPTURES, by Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. The BIBLE, together with SCIENCE +AND HEALTH and other works by Mrs. Eddy, shall be his only textbooks +for self-instruction in Christian Science, and for teaching and +practising metaphysical healing. + +Free from Other Denominations. SECTION 2. This Church will receive +a member of another Church of Christ, Scientist, but not a church +member from a different denomination until that membership is +dissolved. + +Children when Twelve Years Old. SECTION 3. Children who have arrived +at the age of twelve years, who are approved, and whose applications +are countersigned by one of Mrs. Eddy's loyal students, by a +Director, or by a student of the Board of Education, may be admitted +to membership with The Mother Church. + + +Article V--APPLICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP + +Students of the College. SECTION 1. Applications for membership with +The Mother Church from students of the Massachusetts Metaphysical +College who studied with Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, shall be signed by the +Christian Science Board of Directors as evidence of the loyalty of +the applicants. + +Other Students. SECTION 2. Applicants for membership who have not +studied Christian Science with Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, can unite with +this Church only by approval from students of Mrs. Eddy, loyal to the +teachings of the textbook, SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE +SCRIPTURES, or from members of The Mother Church, as provided in +Article VI, Sect. 2, of these By-Laws. + +Students' Pupils. SECTION 3. Applications for membership with The +Mother Church, coming from pupils of loyal students who have taken +the Primary or Normal Course at the Massachusetts Metaphysical +College or in the Board of Education, or from pupils of those who +have passed an examination by the Board of Education, shall have the +approval and signature of their teachers, except in such cases as are +provided for in Sect. 4 of this Article. + +Exceptional Cases. SECTION 4. Loyal Christian Scientists whose +teachers are deceased, absent, or disloyal, or those whose teachers, +for insufficient cause, refuse to endorse their applications for +membership with The Mother Church,--can apply to the Clerk of this +Church, and present to him a recommendation signed by three members +thereof in good standing, after which, the unanimous vote of the +Board of Directors may admit said applicant to membership. + +Addressed to Clerk. SECTION 5. All applications for membership must +be addressed to the Clerk of the Church. + +Endorsing Applications. SECTION 6. A member of The Mother Church +shall not endorse nor countersign an application for membership +therewith until after the blank has been properly filled out by an +applicant. A member who violates this By-Law shall be disciplined. + +Notice of Rejection. SECTION 7. If an application for membership with +The First Church of 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 nor the Church shall be obliged to +report the cause for rejection. + + +Article VI--RECOMMENDATION AND ELECTION + +Pupils of Normal Students. SECTION 1. One Normal student cannot +recommend the pupil 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, Sect. 4. + +Members of The Mother Church. SECTION 2. Only members of The Mother +Church are qualified to approve for membership individuals who are +known to them to be Christians, and faithful, 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 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. + +Election. SECTION 3. Applicants for membership in this Church, whose +applications are correctly prepared, may be elected by majority vote +of the Christian Science Board of Directors at the semi-annual +meetings held for this purpose. + + +Article VII--PROBATIONARY MEMBERSHIP + +Members who once Withdrew. SECTION 1. Individuals who have heretofore +been members of this Church, or were members of the Church of Christ, +Scientist, organized in 1879 by Mary Baker Eddy, but who have +voluntarily withdrawn, may be received into this Church on one year's +probation, provided they are willing and anxious to live according to +its requirements and make application for membership according to +its By-Laws. If, at the expiration of said one year, they are found +worthy, they shall be received into full membership, but if not found +worthy their applications shall be void. + +Members once Dismissed. SECTION 2. A full member or a probationary +member, who has been excommunicated once, and who afterward, when +sufficient time has elapsed thoroughly to test his sincerity, gives +due evidence of having genuinely repented and of being radically +reformed, shall be eligible to probationary membership upon a +unanimous vote of the Christian Science Board of Directors. + +Ineligible for Probation. SECTION 3. If a member has been twice +notified of his excommunication, he shall not again be received into +this Church. + + + + +DISCIPLINE + + +Article VIII--GUIDANCE OF MEMBERS + +A Rule for Motives and Acts. SECTION 1. Neither animosity nor mere +personal attachment should impel the motives or acts of the members +of The Mother Church. In Science, divine Love alone governs man; +and a Christian Scientist reflects the sweet amenities of Love, in +rebuking sin, in true brotherliness, charitableness, and forgiveness. +The members of this Church should daily watch and pray to be +delivered from all evil, from prophesying, judging, condemning, +counseling, influencing or being influenced erroneously. + +To be Read in Church. SECTION 2. The above Church Rule shall be read +in The Mother 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 be read. + +Christ Jesus the Ensample. SECTION 3. He who dated the Christian era +is the Ensample in Christian Science. Careless comparison or +irreverent reference to Christ Jesus is abnormal in a Christian +Scientist, and is prohibited. When it is necessary to show the +great gulf between Christian Science and theosophy, hypnotism, or +spiritualism, do it, but without hard words. The wise man saith, +"A soft answer turneth away wrath." However despitefully used and +misrepresented by the churches or the press, in return employ no +violent invective, and do good unto your enemies when the opportunity +occurs. A departure from this rule disqualifies a member for office +in the Church or on the Board of Lectureship, and renders this member +liable to discipline and, possibly, dismissal from The Mother Church. + +Daily Prayer. SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of every member of this +Church to pray each 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 Word enrich the affections of all mankind, and +govern them! + +Prayer in Church. SECTION 5. The prayers in Christian Science +churches shall be offered for the congregations collectively and +exclusively. + +Alertness to Duty. SECTION 6. It shall be the duty of every member +of this Church to defend himself daily against aggressive mental +suggestion, and not be made to forget nor to neglect his duty to God, +to his Leader, and to mankind. By his works he shall be judged,--and +justified or condemned. + +One Christ. SECTION 7. In accordance with the Christian Science +textbooks,--the BIBLE, and SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE +SCRIPTURES,--and in accord with all of Mrs. 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 the Scripture +beareth testimony. + +No Malpractice. SECTION 8. Members will not intentionally or +knowingly mentally malpractise, inasmuch as Christian Science can +only be practised according to the Golden Rule: "All things +whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to +them." (Matt. 7:12.) + +A member of The Mother Church who mentally malpractises upon or +treats our Leader or her staff without her or their consent shall be +disciplined, and a second offense as aforesaid shall cause the name +of said member to be dropped forever from The Mother Church. + +Formulas Forbidden. SECTION 9. No member shall use written formulas, +nor permit his patients or pupils to use them, as auxiliaries to +teaching Christian Science or for healing the sick. Whatever is +requisite for either is contained in the books of the Discoverer and +Founder of Christian Science. Sometimes she may strengthen the faith +by a written text as no one else can. + +No Adulterating Christian Science. SECTION 10. A member of this +Church shall not publish profuse quotations from Mary Baker Eddy's +copyrighted works without her permission, and shall not plagiarize +her writings. This By-Law not only calls more serious attention to +the commandment of the Decalogue, but tends to prevent Christian +Science from being _adulterated_. + +No Incorrect Literature. SECTION 11. A member of this Church shall +neither buy, sell, nor circulate Christian Science literature which +is not correct in its statement of the divine Principle and rules and +the demonstration of Christian Science. Also the spirit in which the +writer has written his literature shall be definitely considered. +His writings must show strict adherence 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 schisms in our Church +and the possible loss, for a time, of Christian Science. + +Obnoxious Books. SECTION 12. A member of this Church shall not +patronize a publishing house or bookstore that has for sale obnoxious +books. + +Per Capita Tax. SECTION 13. Every member of The Mother Church shall +pay annually a per capita tax of not less than one dollar, which +shall be forwarded each year to the Church Treasurer. + +Church Periodicals. SECTION 14. It shall be the privilege and duty of +every member, who can 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 periodicals are ably edited and kept +abreast of the times. + +Church Organizations Ample. SECTION 15. Members of this Church shall +not unite with organizations which impede their progress in Christian +Science. God requires our whole heart, and he supplies within the +wide channels of The Mother Church dutiful and sufficient occupation +for all its members. + +Joining Another Society. SECTION 16. It shall be the duty of the +members of The Mother Church and of its branches to promote peace on +earth and good will toward men; but members of The Mother Church +shall not hereafter become members of other societies except those +specified in the Mother Church Manual, and they shall strive to +promote the welfare of all mankind by demonstrating the rules of +divine Love. + +Forbidden Membership. SECTION 17. A member of The First Church of +Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., shall not be a member of any +church whose Readers are not Christian Scientists and members of +The Mother Church. + +Officious Members. SECTION 18. A member of The Mother Church is not +entitled to hold office or read in branch churches of this +denomination except by invitation. + +Legal Titles. SECTION 19. Students of Christian Science must drop the +titles of Reverend and Doctor, except those who have received these +titles under the _laws_ of the _State_. + +Illegal Adoption. SECTION 20. No person shall be a member of this +Church who claims a spiritually adopted child or a spiritually +adopted husband or wife. There must be legal adoption and legal +marriage, which can be verified according to the laws of our land. + +Use of Initials "C.S." SECTION 21. A member of The Mother Church +shall not place the initials "C.S." after his name on circulars, +cards, or leaflets, which advertise his business or profession, +except as a Christian Science practitioner. + +Practitioners and Patients. SECTION 22. Members of this Church shall +hold in sacred confidence all private communications made to them by +their patients; also such information as may come to them by reason +of their relation of practitioner to patient. A failure to do this +shall subject the offender to Church discipline. + +A member of The Mother Church shall not, under pardonable +circumstances, sue his patient for recovery of payment for said +member's practice, on penalty of discipline and liability to have +his name removed from membership. 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 is a humanitarian; he +is benevolent, forgiving, long-suffering, and seeks to overcome +evil with good. + +Duty to Patients. SECTION 23. If a member of this Church has a +patient whom he does not heal, and whose case he cannot fully +diagnose, he may consult with an M. D. on the anatomy involved. And +it shall be the privilege of a Christian Scientist to confer with +an M. D. on Ontology, or the Science of being. + +Testimonials. SECTION 24. "Glorify God in 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 rehearsal +of blessings, it scales the pinnacle of praise and illustrates the +demonstration of Christ, "who healeth all thy diseases" (Psalm +103:3). This testimony, however, shall not include a description of +symptoms or of suffering, though the generic name of the disease may +be indicated. This By-Law applies to testimonials which appear in the +periodicals and to those which are given at the Wednesday evening +meeting. + +Charity to All. SECTION 25. While members of this Church do not +believe in the doctrines of theosophy, hypnotism, or spiritualism, +they cherish no enmity toward those who do believe in such doctrines, +and will not harm them. But 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. + +Uncharitable Publications. SECTION 26. A member of this Church +shall not publish, nor cause to be published, an article that is +uncharitable or impertinent towards religion, medicine, the courts, +or the laws of our land. + +The Golden Rule. SECTION 27. A member of 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 for such a purpose. + +Numbering the People. SECTION 28. Christian Scientists shall not +report for publication the number of the members of The Mother +Church, nor that of the branch churches. According to the Scripture +they shall turn away from personality and numbering the people. + +Our Church Edifices. SECTION 29. The periodicals of our denomination +do not publish descriptions of our church edifices, but they may +quote from other periodicals or give incidental narratives. + +No Monopoly. SECTION 30. A Scientist shall not endeavor to monopolize +the healing work in 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, and "by their fruits ye +shall know them." + +Christian Science Nurse. SECTION 31. A member of The Mother Church +who represents himself or herself as a Christian Science nurse +shall be one who has a demonstrable knowledge of Christian Science +practice, who thoroughly understands 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 _The Christian Science +Journal_ under rules established by the publishers. + + +Article IX--MARRIAGE AND DECEASE + +A Legal Ceremony. SECTION 1. If a Christian Scientist is to be +married, the ceremony shall be performed by a clergyman who is +legally authorized. + +Sudden Decease. SECTION 2. If a member of The Mother Church shall +decease suddenly, without previous injury or illness, and the +cause thereof be unknown, an autopsy shall be made by qualified +experts. When it is possible the body of a female shall be prepared +for burial by _one of her own sex_. + + +Article X--DEBATING IN PUBLIC + +No Unauthorized Debating. SECTION 1. A member of this Church shall +not debate on Christian Science in public debating assemblies, +without the consent of the Board of Directors. + + +Article XI--COMPLAINTS + +Departure from Tenets. SECTION 1. If a member of this Church shall +depart from the Tenets and be found having the name without the life +of a Christian Scientist, and another member in good standing shall +from Christian 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, put on probation, or excommunicated. + +Violation of By-Laws. SECTION 2. A member who is found violating any +of the By-Laws or Rules herein set forth, shall be admonished in +consonance with the Scriptural demand in 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 dropped from the roll +of Church membership. + +Violation of Christian Fellowship. SECTION 3. Any member who shall +unjustly aggrieve or vilify the Pastor Emeritus or another member, or +who does not live in Christian fellowship with members who are in +good and regular standing with this Church, shall either withdraw +from the Church or be excommunicated. + +Preliminary Requirement. SECTION 4. No church discipline shall ensue +until the requirements according to the Scriptures, in Matthew +18:15-17, have been strictly obeyed, unless a By-Law governing the +case provides for immediate action. + +Authority. SECTION 5. The Christian Science Board of Directors has +power to discipline, place on probation, remove from membership, or +to excommunicate members of The Mother Church. Only the members of +this Board shall be present at meetings for the examination of +complaints against church members; and they alone shall vote on cases +involving The Mother Church discipline. + +Members in Mother Church Only. SECTION 6. A complaint against a +member of The Mother Church, _if said member belongs to no branch +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 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 whereof he is accused and his previous character has +been good, his confession of his error and evidence of his compliance +with our Church Rules shall be deemed sufficient by the Board for +forgiveness for once, and the Clerk of the Church shall immediately +so inform him. But a second offense shall dismiss a member from the +Church. + +Working Against the Cause. SECTION 7. If a member of this Church +shall, mentally or otherwise, persist in working against the +interests of another member, or the interests of our Pastor Emeritus +and the accomplishment of what she understands is advantageous to +this Church and to the Cause of Christian Science, or shall influence +others thus to act, upon her complaint or the complaint of a member +for her or for himself, 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 from the roll of Church membership. + +No Unchristian Conduct. SECTION 8. If a member of this Church were +to treat the author of our textbook disrespectfully and cruelly, upon +her complaint that member should be excommunicated. If a member, +without her having requested the information, shall trouble her on +subjects unnecessarily and without her consent, it shall be +considered an offense. + +Not to Learn Hypnotism. SECTION 9. Members of this Church shall not +learn hypnotism on penalty of being excommunicated from this Church. +No member shall enter a complaint of mental malpractice for a +sinister purpose. If the author of SCIENCE AND HEALTH shall bear +witness to the offense of mental malpractice, it shall be considered +a sufficient evidence thereof. + +Publications Unjust. SECTION 10. If a member 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 Leader, and +if, upon complaint by another member, the Board of Directors finds +that the offense has been committed, the offender shall be suspended +for not less than three years from his or her office in this Church +and from Church membership. + +The Mother Church of Christ, Scientist, Tenets. SECTION 11. If a +member of The Mother 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--on complaint of Mrs. Eddy our Pastor +Emeritus--and this complaint being found valid, his or her name +shall be erased from The Mother Church and the branch church's list +of membership and the offender shall not be received into The Mother +Church or a branch church for twelve years. + +Special Offense. SECTION 12. If a member of this Church, either by +word or work, represents 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 name from membership in The +Mother Church. + +Members of Branch Churches. SECTION 13. A member of both The Mother +Church and a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, or a Reader, shall +not report nor send notices to The Mother Church, or to the Pastor +Emeritus, of errors of the members of their local church; but they +shall strive to overcome these errors. Each church shall separately +and independently discipline its own members,--if this sad necessity +occurs. + + +Article XII--TEACHERS + +Probation. SECTION 1. For sufficient reasons it may be decided that a +teacher has so 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 and retaining his membership, this weak member +shall not be counted loyal till after three years of exemplary +character. Then the Board of Directors may decide if his loyalty has +been proved by uniform maintenance of the life of a consistent, +consecrated Christian Scientist. + +Misteaching. SECTION 2. If a member of this Church is found trying to +practise or to teach Christian Science contrary to the statement +thereof in its textbook, SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE +SCRIPTURES, it shall be the duty of the Board of Directors to +admonish 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 of this Church. + + + + +MEETINGS + + +Article XIII--REGULAR AND SPECIAL MEETINGS + +Annual Meetings. SECTION 1. The regular meetings of The Mother Church +shall be held annually, on Monday following the first Sunday in June. +No other than its of officers are required to be present. These +assemblies shall be for listening to the reports of Treasurer, Clerk, +and Committees, and general reports from the Field. + +Meetings of Board of Directors. SECTION 2. The annual meeting of the +Christian Science Board of Directors, for electing officers and other +business, shall be held on Monday preceding the annual meeting of the +Church. Regular meetings for electing candidates to membership with +The Mother Church, and for the transaction of such other business as +may properly come before these meetings, shall be held on the Friday +preceding the first Sunday in June, and on the first Friday in +November of each year. Special meetings may be held at any time upon +the call of the Clerk. + +Called only by the Clerk. SECTION 3. Before 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 Directors and the Pastor +Emeritus of his intention, and to state definitely the purpose for +which the members are to convene. The Clerk must have the consent of +this Board and the Pastor Emeritus, before he can call said meeting. + + + + +CHURCH SERVICES + + +Article XIV--THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PASTOR + +Ordination. SECTION 1. I, Mary Baker Eddy, ordain the BIBLE, and +SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, Pastor over The +Mother Church,--The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, +Mass.,--and they will continue to preach for this Church and the +world. + +The Lesson-Sermon. SECTION 2. The subject 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 services on Sunday. +The correlative Biblical texts in the Lesson-Sermon shall extend from +Genesis to Revelation. + + +Article XV--READING IN PUBLIC + +Announcing Author's Name. SECTION 1. To pour into the ears +of listeners the sacred revelations of Christian Science +indiscriminately, or without characterizing their origin and thus +distinguishing them from the writings of authors who think at random +on this subject, is to lose some weight in the scale of right +thinking. Therefore it is the duty of every member of this Church, +when publicly reading or quoting from the books or poems of our +Pastor Emeritus, first to announce the name of the author. Members +shall also instruct their pupils to adopt the aforenamed method for +the benefit of our Cause. + + +Article XVI--WELCOMING STRANGERS + +The Leader's Welcome. SECTION 1. Mrs. Eddy welcomes to her seats in +the church, persons of all sects and denominations who come to listen +to the Sunday sermon and are not otherwise provided with seats. + +The Local Members' Welcome. SECTION 2. It shall be the duty and +privilege of the local members of The Mother Church to give their +seats, if necessary, to strangers who may come to attend the morning +services. + + +Article XVII--SERVICES UNINTERRUPTED + +Continued Throughout the Year. SECTION 1. The services of The Mother +Church shall be continued twelve months each year. One meeting on +Sunday during the months of July and August is sufficient. A +Christian Scientist is not fatigued by prayer, by reading the +Scriptures or the Christian Science textbook. Amusement or idleness +is weariness. Truth and Love rest the weary and heavy laden. + +Easter Observances. SECTION 2. In the United States there shall be no +special observances, festivities, nor gifts at the Easter season by +members of The Mother Church. Gratitude and love should abide in +every heart each day of all the years. Those sacred words of our +beloved Master, "Let the dead bury their dead," and "Follow thou me," +appeal to daily Christian endeavors for the living whereby to +exemplify our risen Lord. + +Laying a Corner Stone. SECTION 3. No large gathering of people nor +display shall be allowed when laying the Corner Stone of a Church of +Christ, Scientist. Let the ceremony be devout. No special trowel +should be used. (See SCIENCE AND HEALTH, page 140.) + +Overflow Meetings. SECTION 4. A Church of Christ, Scientist, shall +not hold two or more Sunday services at the same hour. + + +Article XVIII--COMMUNION + +No more Communion. SECTION 1. The Mother Church of Christ, Scientist, +shall observe no more Communion seasons. + +Communion of Branch Churches. SECTION 2. 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 of The Mother +Church are to be read. + + +Article XIX--MUSIC IN THE CHURCH + +Soloist and Organist. SECTION 1. The music in The Mother Church shall +not be operatic, but of an appropriate religious character and of a +recognized standard of musical excellence; it shall be played in a +dignified and suitable manner. Music from the organ alone should +continue about eight or nine minutes for the voluntary and six or +seven minutes for the postlude, the offertory conforming to the time +required to take the collection. The solo singer shall not neglect +to sing any special hymn selected by the Board of Directors. + + +Article XX--SUNDAY SCHOOL + +The Sunday School. SECTION 1. Pupils may 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 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 the age of +twenty. None except the officers, teachers, and pupils should attend +the Sunday School exercises. + +Teaching the Children. SECTION 2. The Sabbath School children shall +be taught the Scriptures, and they shall be instructed according to +their understanding or ability to grasp the simpler meanings of the +divine Principle that they are taught. + +Subject for Lessons. SECTION 3. The first lessons of the children +should be the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20: 3-17), the Lord's Prayer +(Matt. 6: 9-13), and its Spiritual Interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy, +Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5: 3-12). The next lessons consist of such +questions and answers as are adapted to a juvenile class, and may be +found in the Christian Science Quarterly Lessons, read in Church +services. The instruction given by the children's teachers must not +deviate from the absolute Christian Science contained in their +textbook. + + + + +READING ROOMS + + +Article XXI + +Establishment. SECTION 1. Each church of the Christian Science +denomination shall have a Reading Room, though two or more churches +may unite in having Reading Rooms, provided these rooms are well +located. + +Librarian. SECTION 2. The individuals who take charge of the Reading +Rooms of The Mother Church shall be elected by the Christian Science +Board of Directors, subject to the approval of Mary Baker Eddy. He or +she shall have no bad habits, shall have had experience in the Field, +shall be well educated, and a devout Christian Scientist.[3] + +Literature in Reading Rooms. SECTION 3. The literature sold or +exhibited in the reading rooms of Christian Science Churches shall +consist only of _Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures_, +by Mary Baker Eddy, and other writings by this author; also the +literature published or sold by The Christian Science Publishing +Society. + +[3] See also Article XXV, Sect. 7. + + + + +RELATION AND DUTIES OF MEMBERS TO PASTOR EMERITUS + + +Article XXII + +The Title of Mother Changed. SECTION 1. In the year eighteen hundred +and ninety-five, loyal Christian Scientists had given to the author +of their textbook, the Founder of Christian Science, the individual, +endearing term of Mother. At first Mrs. Eddy objected to being called +thus, but afterward consented on the ground that this appellative in +the Church meant nothing more 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 name, it is the duty of Christian +Scientists to drop the word _mother_ and to substitute Leader, +already used in our periodicals. + +A Member not a Leader. SECTION 2. A member of The First Church of +Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., shall not be called Leader by +members of this Church, when this term is used in connection with +Christian Science. + +Obedience Required. SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the officers +of this Church, of the editors of the _Christian Science Journal_, +_Sentinel_, and _Der Herold_, of the members of the Committees on +Publication, of the Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing +Society, and of the Board of Education promptly to comply with any +written order, signed by Mary Baker Eddy, which applies to their +official functions. Disobedience to this By-Law shall be sufficient +cause for the removal of the offending member from office. + +The vacancy shall be supplied by a majority vote of the Christian +Science Board of Directors, and the candidate shall be subject to +the approval of Mary Baker Eddy. + +Understanding Communications. SECTION 4. If the Clerk of this Church +shall receive a communication from the Pastor Emeritus which he does +not fully understand, he shall inform her of this fact before +presenting it to the Church and obtain a clear understanding of the +matter,--then act in accordance therewith. + +Interpreting Communications. SECTION 5. If at a meeting of this +Church a doubt or disagreement shall arise among the members as to +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 the vexed question and to await her explanation thereof. + +Reading and Attesting Letters. SECTION 6. 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 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 authority supposed to +come from her satisfactorily attested. + +Unauthorized Reports. SECTION 7. Members 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 of this Church. The +Pastor Emeritus is not to be consulted on cases of discipline, on the +cases of candidates for admission to this Church, or on the cases of +those on trial for dismissal from the Church. + +Private Communications. SECTION 8. A strictly private communication +from the Pastor Emeritus to a member of her Church shall not be made +public without her written consent. + +Unauthorized Legal Action. SECTION 9. A member of this Church shall +not employ an attorney, nor take legal action on a case not provided +for in its By-Laws--if said case relates to the person or to the +property of Mary Baker Eddy--without having personally conferred with +her on said subject. + +Duty to God. SECTION 10. Members of this Church who turn their +attention from the divine Principle of being to personality, sending +gifts, congratulatory despatches or letters to the Pastor Emeritus on +Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, or Easter, break a rule of this +Church and are amenable therefor. + +Opportunity for Serving the Leader. SECTION 11. At the written +request of the Pastor Emeritus, Mrs. Eddy, the Board of Directors +shall immediately notify a person who has been a member of this +Church at least three years to 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 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 be excommunicated from The Mother +Church. Members thus serving the Leader shall be paid semi-annually +at the rate of one thousand dollars yearly in addition to rent and +board. Those members whom she teaches the course in Divinity, and who +remain with her three consecutive years, receive the degree of the +Massachusetts Metaphysical College. + +Location. SECTION 12. Rev. Mary Baker Eddy calls to her home or +allows to visit or to locate therein only those individuals whom +she engages through the Christian Science Board of Directors of +the Mother Church. This By-Law takes effect on Dec. 15, 1908. + +Agreement Required. SECTION 13. When the Christian Science Board of +Directors calls a student in accordance with Article XXII, Sect. 11, +of our Church Manual to the home of their Leader, Mrs. Eddy, said +student shall come under a signed agreement to remain with Mrs. Eddy +if she so desires, during the time specified in the Church Manual. + +Incomplete Term of Service. SECTION 14. If a student who has been +called to serve our Leader in accordance with Article XXII, Sect. 11, +of the Church Manual leaves her before the expiration of the time +therein mentioned such student shall pay to Mrs. Eddy whatsoever she +may charge for what she has taught him or her during the time of such +service. + +Help. SECTION 15. If the author of the Christian Science textbook +call on this Board for household help or a handmaid, the Board shall +immediately appoint a proper member of this Church therefor, and the +appointee shall go immediately in obedience to the call. "He that +loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me." (Matt. +10:37.) + +Students with Mrs. Eddy. SECTION 16. Students employed by Mrs. Eddy +at her home shall not take care of their churches or attend to other +affairs outside of her house. + +Mrs. Eddy's Room. SECTION 17. The room in The Mother Church formerly +known as "Mother's Room" shall hereafter be closed to visitors. + +Pastor Emeritus to be Consulted. SECTION 18. The Mother Church shall +not make a church By-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 subject and adhering strictly to her +advice thereon. + + + + +THE MOTHER CHURCH AND BRANCH CHURCHES + + +Article XXIII + +Local Self-government. SECTION 1. The Mother Church of Christ, +Scientist, shall assume no general official control of other +churches, and it shall be controlled by none other. Each Church +of Christ, Scientist, shall have its own form of government. No +conference of churches shall be held, unless it be when our churches, +located in the same State, convene to confer on a statute of said +State, or to confer harmoniously on individual unity and action of +the churches in said State. + +Titles. SECTION 2. "The First Church of Christ, Scientist," is the +legal title of The Mother Church. Branch churches of The Mother +Church may take the title of First Church of Christ, Scientist; +Second Church of Christ, Scientist; and so on, where more than one +church is established in the same place; but the article "The" +must not be used before titles of branch churches, nor written on +applications for membership in naming such churches. + +Mother Church Unique. SECTION 3. In its relation to other Christian +Science churches, in its By-Laws and self-government, The Mother +Church stands alone; it occupies a position that no other church +can fill. Then for a branch church to assume such position would be +disastrous to Christian Science. Therefore, no Church of Christ, +Scientist, shall be considered loyal that has branch churches or +adopts The Mother Church's form of government, except in such cases +as are specially allowed and named in this Manual. + +Tenets Copyrighted. SECTION 4. Branch churches shall not write the +Tenets of The Mother Church in their church books, except they give +the name of their author and her permission to publish them as Tenets +of The Mother Church, copyrighted in SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO +THE SCRIPTURES. + +Manual. SECTION 5. Branch churches shall not adopt, print, nor +publish the Manual of The Mother Church. See Article XXXV, Sect. 1. + +Organizing Churches. SECTION 6. A member of this Church who obeys its +By-Laws and is a loyal exemplary Christian Scientist working in the +Field, is eligible to form a church in conformity with Sect. 7 of +this Article, and to have church services conducted by reading the +SCRIPTURES and the Christian Science textbook. This church shall be +acknowledged publicly as a Church of Christ, Scientist. Upon proper +application, made in accordance with the rules of The Christian +Science Publishing Society, the services of such a church may be +advertised in _The Christian Science Journal_. The branch churches +shall be individual, and not more than two small churches shall +consolidate under one church government. If the Pastor Emeritus, Mrs. +Eddy, should relinquish her place as the head or Leader of The Mother +Church of Christ, Scientist, each branch church shall continue its +present form of government in consonance with The Mother Church +Manual. + +Requirements for Organizing Branch Churches. SECTION 7. A branch +church of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass., shall +not be organized with less than sixteen loyal Christian Scientists, +four of whom are members of The Mother Church. This membership shall +include at least one active practitioner whose card is published in +the list of practitioners in _The Christian Science Journal_. + +Privilege of Members. SECTION 8. Members in good standing with +The Mother Church, who are members of the faculty, instructors, +or students organization. + +No Close Communion. SECTION 9. The Mother Church and the branch +churches shall not confine their membership to the pupils of one +teacher. + +No Interference. SECTION 10. A member of The Mother Church may be a +member of one branch Church of Christ, Scientist, or of one Christian +Science society holding public services, but he shall not be a member +of both a branch church and a society; neither shall he exercise +supervision or control over any other church. 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. + +Teachers' and Practitioners' Offices. SECTION 11. Teachers and +practitioners of Christian Science shall not have their offices or +rooms in the branch churches, in the reading rooms, nor in rooms +connected therewith. + +Recognition. SECTION 12. In order to be eligible to a card in _The +Christian Science Journal_, churches and societies are required to +acknowledge as such all other Christian Science churches and +societies advertised in said _Journal_, and to maintain toward them +an attitude of Christian fellowship. + + + + +GUARDIANSHIP OF CHURCH FUNDS + + +Article XXIV + +Church Edifice a Testimonial. SECTION 1. Whereas, on March 20, 1895, +the Christian Science Board of Directors, in behalf of The First +Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass., presented to Rev. Mary +Baker Eddy their church edifice as a Testimonial of this Church's +love and gratitude, and she, with grateful acknowledgments thereof, +declined to receive this munificent gift, she now understands the +financial situation between the Christian Science Board of Directors +and said Church to be as follows:-- + +Financial Situation. SECTION 2. The Christian Science Board of +Directors owns the church edifices, with the land whereon they stand, +legally; and the Church members own the aforesaid premises and +buildings, beneficially. After the first church was built, the +balance of the building funds, which remained in the hands of the +Directors, belonged to the Church, and not solely to the Directors. +The balance of the church building funds, which can be spared after +the debts are paid, should remain on safe deposit, to be hereafter +used for the benefit of this Church, as the right occasion may call +for it. The following indicates the proper management of the Church +funds:-- + +Report of Directors. SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the Christian +Science Board of Directors to have the books of the Church Treasurer +audited semi-annually, and to report at the annual Church meeting +the amount of funds which the Church has on hand, the amount of its +indebtedness and of its expenditures for the last year. + +Finance Committee. SECTION 4. There shall be a Committee on Finance, +which shall consist of three members of this Church in good standing. +Its members shall be appointed annually by the Christian Science +Board of Directors and with the consent of the Pastor Emeritus. They +shall hold quarterly meetings and keep themselves thoroughly informed +as to the real estate owned by this Church and the amount of funds +received by the Treasurer of The Mother Church, who is individually +responsible for said funds. They shall have the books of the +Christian Science Board of Directors and the books of the Church +Treasurer audited annually by an honest, competent accountant. +The books are to be audited on May first. + +Prior to paying bills against the Church, the Treasurer of this +Church shall submit them all to said committee for examination. +This committee shall decide thereupon by a unanimous vote, and its +endorsement of the bills shall render them payable. + +If it be found that the Church funds have not been properly managed, +it shall be the duty of the Board of Directors and the Treasurer to +be individually responsible for the performance of their several +offices satisfactorily, and for the proper distribution of the funds +of which they are the custodians. + +God's Requirement. SECTION 5. God requires wisdom, economy, and +brotherly love to characterize all the proceedings of the members +of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist. + +Provision for the Future. SECTION 6. In case of any possible future +deviation from duty, the Committee on Finance shall visit the Board +of Directors, and, in a Christian spirit and manner, demand that each +member thereof comply with the By-Laws of the Church. If any Director +fails to heed this admonition, he may be dismissed from office and +the vacancy supplied by the Board. + +Debt and Duty. SECTION 7. The Mother Church shall not be made legally +responsible for the debts of individuals except such debts as are +specified in its By-Laws. Donations from this Church shall not be +made without the written consent of the Pastor Emeritus. Also +important movements of the manager of the Committee on Publication +shall be sanctioned by the Board of Directors and be subject to the +approval of Mary Baker Eddy. (See Article I, Sect. 6.) + +Emergencies. SECTION 8. The Treasurer, personally, or through the +Clerk of the Church, 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 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 the first of the following month, +to the Board of Directors and the Committee on Finance, for their +approval. + +Committee on Business. SECTION 9. The Christian Science Board of +Directors shall elect annually a Committee on Business, which shall +consist of not less than three loyal members of The Mother Church, +who shall transact promptly and efficiently such business as Mrs. +Eddy, the Directors, or the Committee on Publication shall commit +to it. While the members of this Committee are engaged in the +transaction of the business assigned to them they shall be paid from +the Church funds. Before being eligible for office the names of the +persons nominated for said office shall be presented to Mrs. Eddy +for her written approval. + + + + +THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING SOCIETY + + +Article XXV + +Board of Trustees. SECTION 1. The Board of Trustees, constituted by a +Deed of Trust given by Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, the Pastor Emeritus of +this Church, on January twenty-fifth, 1898, shall hold and manage the +property therein conveyed, and conduct the business of "The Christian +Science Publishing Society" on a strictly Christian basis, for the +promotion of the interests of Christian Science. + +Disposal of Funds. SECTION 2. The net profits of the business shall +be paid over semi-annually to the Treasurer of The Mother Church. He +shall hold this money subject to the order of the Christian Science +Board of Directors, which is authorized to order its disposition only +in accordance with the By-Laws contained in this Manual. + +Vacancies in Trusteeship. SECTION 3. The Christian Science Board +of Directors shall have the power to declare vacancies in said +trusteeship, for such reasons as to the Board may seem expedient. + +Whenever a vacancy shall occur, the Pastor Emeritus reserves the +right to fill the same by appointment; but if she does not elect to +exercise this right, the remaining trustees shall fill the vacancy, +subject to her approval. + +Editors and Manager. SECTION 4. The term of office for the editors +and the manager of The Christian Science Publishing Society is one +year each, dating from the time of election to the office. Incumbents +who have served one year or more can be re-elected, or new officers +elected, by a unanimous vote of the Christian Science Board of +Directors, and the consent of the Pastor Emeritus given in her own +handwriting. + +Suitable Employees. SECTION 5. A person who is not accepted by the +Pastor Emeritus and the Christian Science Board of Directors as +suitable, shall in no manner be connected with publishing her books, +nor with editing or publishing _The Christian Science Journal_, +_Christian Science Sentinel_, _Der Herold der Christian Science_, +nor with The Christian Science Publishing Society. + +Periodicals. SECTION 6. Periodicals which shall at any time be +published by The Christian Science Publishing Society, shall be +copyrighted and conducted according to the provisions in the Deed +of Trust relating to _The Christian Science Journal_. + +Rule of Conduct. SECTION 7. No objectionable pictures shall be +exhibited in the rooms where the Christian Science textbook is +published or sold. No idle gossip, no slander, no mischief-making, +no evil speaking shall be allowed. + +Books to be Published. SECTION 8. Only the Publishing Society of +The Mother Church selects, approves, and publishes the books and +literature it sends forth. If Mary Baker Eddy disapproves of +certain books or literature, the Society will not publish them. The +Committees on Publication are in no manner connected with these +functions. A book or an article of which Mrs. Eddy is the author +shall not be published nor republished by this Society without her +knowledge or written consent. + +Removal of Cards. SECTION 9. No cards shall be removed from our +periodicals without the request 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 examination of complaints. + +Members of this Church who practise other professions or pursue +other vocations, shall not advertise as healers, excepting those +members who are officially engaged in the work of Christian Science, +and they must devote ample time for faithful practice. + + + + +TEACHING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE + + +Article XXVI--TEACHERS + +Motive in Teaching. SECTION 1. Teaching Christian Science shall not +be a question of money, but of morals and religion, healing and +uplifting the race. + +Care of Pupils. SECTION 2. Christian Scientists who are teachers +shall carefully select for pupils such only as have good past records +and promising proclivities toward Christian Science. A teacher shall +not assume personal control of, or attempt to dominate his pupils, +but he shall hold himself morally obligated to promote their progress +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 and practical in Christian Science. He shall persistently +and patiently counsel his pupils in conformity with the unerring laws +of God, and shall enjoin them habitually to study the Scriptures and +SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES as a help thereto. + +Defense against Malpractice. SECTION 3. Teachers shall instruct their +pupils how to defend 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 unto others, but to themselves. + +Number of Pupils. SECTION 4. The teachers of Christian Science shall +teach but one class yearly, 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 exceeding thirty pupils. + +Pupil's Tuition. SECTION 5. A student's price for teaching Christian +Science shall not exceed $100.00 per pupil. + +Associations. SECTION 6. The associations of the pupils of loyal +teachers shall convene annually. The pupils shall be guided by the +BIBLE, and SCIENCE AND HEALTH, not by their teachers' personal views. +Teachers shall not call their pupils together, or assemble a selected +number of them, for more frequent meetings. + +A Single Field of Labor. SECTION 7. A loyal teacher of Christian +Science shall not teach another loyal teacher's pupil, except it +be in the Board of Education. Outside of this Board each student +occupies only his own field of labor. Pupils may visit each other's +churches, and by invitation attend each other's associations. + +Caring for Pupils of Strayed Members. SECTION 8. A loyal teacher of +Christian Science 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 provisions of Article XII, Sect. 1, not ready +to lead his pupils. + +Teachers must have Certificates. SECTION 9. 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 has taken a Normal +Course at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College or in the Board of +Education. + +Such members who have not been continuously active and loyal +Christian Scientists since receiving instruction as above, shall +not teach Christian Science without the approval of The Christian +Science Board of Directors. + + +Article XXVII--PUPILS + +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 +the personal instruction of Mrs. Eddy, he is no longer under the +jurisdiction of his former teacher. + +Without Teachers. SECTION 2. Those beloved brethren whose teacher has +left them, can elect an experienced Christian Scientist, who is not +in charge of an association of students and who is ready for this +high calling, to conduct the meetings of their association. + +Basis for Teaching. SECTION 3. The teachers of the Normal class shall +teach from the chapter Recapitulation in SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY +TO THE SCRIPTURES, and from the Christian Science Platform, beginning +on page 330 of the revised editions since 1902, and they shall teach +nothing contrary thereto. The teachers of the Primary class shall +instruct their pupils from the said chapter on "Recapitulation" only. + +Church Membership. SECTION 4. Neither the Pastor Emeritus nor a +member of this Church shall teach Roman Catholics Christian Science, +except it be with the written consent of the authority of their +Church. Choice of patients is left to the wisdom of the practitioner, +and Mrs. Eddy is not to be consulted on this subject. + +Class Teaching. SECTION 5. Members of The 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 +classes. No member of this Church shall advise against class +instruction. + +Teachers of Christian Science must have the necessary moral and +spiritual qualifications to elucidate the Principle and rule of +Christian Science, through the higher meaning of the Scriptures. +"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 both teacher and student." (Retrospection and Introspection, +page 84.) + + + + +BOARD OF EDUCATION + + +Article XXVIII--ORGANIZATION + +Officers. SECTION 1. There shall be a Board of Education, under +the auspices of Mary Baker Eddy, President of the Massachusetts +Metaphysical College, consisting of three members, a president, +vice-president, and teacher of Christian Science. Obstetrics will +not be taught. + +Election. SECTION 2. The vice-president shall be elected annually by +the Christian Science 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 approval of the Pastor Emeritus. + +President not to be Consulted. SECTION 3. The President is not to be +consulted by students on the question of applying for admission to +this Board nor on their course or conduct. The students can confer +with their teachers on subjects essential to their progress. + +Presidency of College. SECTION 4. Should the President resign +over her own signature or vacate her office of President of the +Massachusetts Metaphysical College, a meeting of the Christian +Science Board of Directors shall immediately be called, and the +vice-president of the Board of Education being found worthy, on +receiving her approval shall be elected to fill the vacancy. + + +Article XXIX--APPLICANTS AND GRADUATES + +Normal Teachers. SECTION 1. Loyal students who have been taught in +a Primary class by Mrs. Eddy and have practised Christian Science +healing acceptably three years, and who present such credentials as +are required to verify this fact, are eligible to receive the degree +of C.S.D. + +Qualifications. SECTION 2. Loyal Christian Scientists' pupils who so +desire may apply to the Board of Education for instruction; and if +they have practised Christian Science healing successfully three +years and will furnish evidence of their eligibility therefor, they +are eligible to enter the Normal class. All members of this class +must be thorough English scholars. + +Certificates. SECTION 3. Students are examined and given certificates +by this Board if found qualified to receive them. + + +Article XXX--ACTION OF THE BOARD + +Sessions. SECTION 1. The term of the Massachusetts Metaphysical +College will open with the Board of Education on the first Wednesday +of December. The sessions will continue not over one week. None but +the teacher and members of the College class shall be present at the +sessions, and no Primary classes shall be taught under the auspices +of this Board. + +Special Instruction. SECTION 2. Not less than two thorough lessons by +a well qualified teacher shall be given to each Normal class on the +subject of mental practice and _malpractice_. One student in the +class shall prepare a paper on said subject that shall be read to +the class, thoroughly discussed, and understood; this paper shall be +given to the teacher, and he shall not allow it or a copy of it to +remain, but shall destroy this paper. + +Signatures. SECTION 3. The signature of the teacher and of the +President of the College shall be on all certificates issued. + +Remuneration and Free Scholarship. SECTION 4. Tuition of class +instruction in the Board of Education shall be $100.00. The bearer of +a card of free scholarship from the President, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, +shall be entitled to a free course in this department on presentation +of the card to the teacher. Only the President gives free admission +to classes. + +Surplus Funds. SECTION 5. Any surplus funds left in the hands of the +Board of Education shall be paid over annually to the Treasurer of +The Mother Church. + +Primary Students. SECTION 6. Students of Christian Science, duly +instructed therein and with good moral records, not having the +certificate of C.S.D. may enter the Normal class in the Board of +Education, which will be held once in three years beginning A. D. +1907; provided their diplomas are for three _consecutive_ years +under Mrs. Eddy's daily conversation on Christian Science, or from +the Massachusetts Meta-physical College Board of Education. + +Healing Better than Teaching. SECTION 7. Healing the sick and the +sinner with Truth demonstrates what we affirm of Christian Science, +and nothing can substitute this demonstration. I recommend that each +member of this Church shall strive to demonstrate by his or her +practice, that Christian Science heals the sick quickly and wholly, +thus proving this Science to be all that we claim for it. + +If both husband and wife are found duly qualified to teach Christian +Science, either one, not both, should teach yearly one class. + +Not Members of The Mother Church. SECTION 8. No person shall receive +instructions in Christian Science in any class in the Massachusetts +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, +Mass. + +Only those persons who are members of this Church and possessed +of the qualifications named in Sect. 9 of Article XXVI of these +By-Laws shall be deemed loyal teachers of Christian Science. + + + + +BOARD OF LECTURESHIP + + +Article XXXI--ORGANIZATION AND DUTIES + +Election. SECTION 1. This Church shall maintain a Board of +Lectureship, the members of which shall be elected annually on Monday +preceding the Annual Meeting, subject to the approval of the Pastor +Emeritus. The lecture year shall begin July 1 of each year. + +Duty of Lecturers. SECTION 2. It is the duty of the Board of +Lectureship to include in each lecture a true and just reply to +public topics condemning Christian Science, and to bear testimony to +the facts pertaining to the life of the Pastor Emeritus. Each member +shall mail to the Clerk of this Church copies of his lectures before +delivering them. + +No Disruption of Branch Churches. SECTION 3. The Board of Lectureship +is not allowed in anywise to meddle with nor to disrupt the +organization of branch churches. The lecturer can invite churches +within the city whither he is called to unite in their attendance on +his lecture, and so make for their churches a less lecture fee; but +the churches shall decide their action. + +Receptions. SECTION 4. As a rule there should be no receptions nor +festivities after a lecture on Christian Science, but there may occur +exceptions. If there be an individual who goes to hear and deride +truth, he should go away contemplating truth; and he who goes to seek +truth should have the opportunity to depart in quiet _thought_ on +that subject. + +Circuit Lecturer. SECTION 5. Upon the written 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 shall +lecture in the United States, in Canada, in Great Britain and +Ireland. + +A member shall neither resign nor transfer this sacred office. + + +Article XXXII--CALLS FOR LECTURES + +The Directors. SECTION 1. When the need is apparent, the Christian +Science Board of Directors of The Mother Church may call on any +member of this Board of Lectureship to lecture at such places and +at such times as the cause of Christian Science demands. + +From Branch Churches. SECTION 2. The branch Churches of Christ, +Scientist, may apply through their clerks to a member of this Board +of Lectureship for a speaker, and one shall be assigned them by the +Board. + +From Societies. SECTION 3. If called for, a member of the Board may +lecture for a Society. + +Annual Lectures. SECTION 4. The Mother Church and the branch churches +shall call on the Board of Lectureship annually for one or more +lectures. + +No Lectures by Readers. SECTION 5. No lecture shall be given by a +Reader during his term of Readership. The duties alone of a Reader +are ample. + +No Wednesday Evening Lectures. SECTION 6. The Board of Lectureship +shall not appoint a lecture for Wednesday evening. + +Lecture Fee. SECTION 7. The lecture fee shall be left to the +discretion of the lecturer. + +Expenses. SECTION 8. The lecturer's traveling expenses and the cost +of hall shall be paid by the church that employs him. + +Exceptional Cases. SECTION 9. If a lecturer receive a call to lecture +in a place where he sees there is special need, and the local church +is unable to meet the expense, he is at liberty to supply that need +and trust to contributions for his fee. + + + + +COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION + + +Article XXXIII + +In The Mother Church. SECTION 1. There shall be appointed by The +Mother Church a Committee on Publication, which shall consist of +one loyal Christian Scientist who lives in Boston, and he shall +be manager of the Committees on Publication throughout the United +States, Canada, Great Britain and Ireland. He shall be elected +annually by a unanimous vote of the Christian Science Board of +Directors and the consent of the Pastor Emeritus given in her own +handwriting, and shall receive an annual salary, paid quarterly, +of not less than four thousand dollars. + +Duties. SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the Committee on +Publication to correct in a Christian manner impositions on the +public in regard to Christian Science, injustices done Mrs. Eddy +or members of this Church by the daily press, by periodicals or +circulated literature of any sort. This Committee on Publication +shall be responsible for correcting or having corrected a false +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 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 correction shall appear, this Committee shall +immediately apply for aid to the Committee on Business. Furthermore, +the Committee on Publication 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 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 have published each year +in a leading Boston newspaper the letter sent to the Pastor Emeritus +by the Church members in annual meeting assembled. The State +Committees on Publication act under the direction of this Committee +on Publication. + +In Branch Churches. SECTION 3. The Readers of the three largest +branch churches in each State of the United States and in Canada +shall annually and alternately appoint a Committee on Publication to +serve in their localities. For the purposes 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. Each county of +Great Britain and Ireland, except as hereinafter specified, through +the Readers of its three largest branch churches, shall annually +and alternately appoint a Committee on Publication to serve in +its locality. Each church is not necessarily confined to its own +members in selecting this Committee, but if preferred, can appoint +a Committee on Publication who is in good fellowship with another +Church of Christ, Scientist. + +This By-Law applies to all States except Massachusetts, in which the +Committee on Publication is elected only by the Christian Science +Board of Directors. The Committee for the counties in which London, +England, is situated shall be appointed by the Christian Science +Board of Directors, and he shall, in addition to his other duties, +act as District Manager of the Committees on Publication for Great +Britain and Ireland. + +Appointment. SECTION 4. The Committees on Publication shall consist +of men generally. Each State Committee shall be appointed by the +First and Second Readers of the church employing said Committee. +If prior to the meeting of the church for the election of officers, +Mrs. Eddy shall send to the First Reader of the church the name of +a candidate for its Committee on Publication, the Readers shall +appoint said candidate. Or if she shall send a special request to any +Committee on Publication, the request shall be carried out according +to her directions. + +Removal from Office. SECTION 5. If the Committee on Publication +neglects to fulfil the obligations of his office according to these +By-Laws, and this becomes apparent to the Christian Science Board +of Directors, it shall be the duty of the Directors immediately to +act upon this important matter in accordance with said By-Laws. + +The Christian Science Board of Directors may notify any Church of +Christ, Scientist, to remove its Committee on Publication and to +appoint another Committee to fill the vacancy; and it shall be the +duty of that church to comply with this 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 Board shall be elected by +the branch church. + +Case of Necessity. SECTION 6. If a suitable man is not obtainable for +Committee on Publication, a suitable woman shall be elected. If at +any time the Christian Science Board of Directors shall determine +that the manager of the general Committee on Publication needs an +assistant, the Board shall, with the approval of the Pastor Emeritus, +appoint an assistant manager, who shall receive an adequate salary +from The Mother Church. + + + + +CHURCH-BUILDING + + +Article XXXIV + +Building Committee. SECTION 1. There shall be a Building Committee +consisting of not less than three members, and this committee shall +not be dissolved until the new church edifice is completed. This +committee shall elect, dismiss, or supply a vacancy of its members +by a majority vote. + +Designation of Deeds. SECTION 2. All deeds of further purchases of +land for The First 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. 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 there shall be incorporated in all +such deeds the phrase, "Mary Baker Eddy's Church, The Mother Church +or The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass." + +The Mother Church Building. SECTION 3. The edifice erected in 1894 +for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., shall +neither be demolished, nor removed from the site where it was built, +without the written consent of the Pastor Emeritus, Mary Baker Eddy. + + + + +CHURCH MANUAL + + +Article XXXV + +For The Mother Church Only. SECTION 1. The Church Manual of The First +Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., written by Mary Baker +Eddy and copyrighted, is adapted to The Mother Church only. It stands +alone, uniquely adapted to form the budding thought and hedge it +about with divine Love. This Manual shall not be revised without the +written consent of its author. + +Seventy-third Edition the Authority. SECTION 2. The Board of +Directors, the Committee on Bible Lessons, and the Board of Trustees +shall each 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, these editions shall be cited as authority. + +Amendment of By-Laws. SECTION 3. 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, the author of our textbook, +SCIENCE AND HEALTH. + + + + +Appendix + + +Special Instructions Regarding Applications for Church Membership + + +1. Loyal members of The Mother Church are eligible to approve +candidates to unite with this Church. + +2. No persons are eligible to countersign applications except +loyal students of Mrs. Eddy, Directors, and students of the Board +of Education who have been given a degree, and are members of The +Mother Church. + +3. Those who approve applicants should have applications returned +to them after being filled out by the applicants, as required by +Article V, Sect. 6, and should compare them with the forms here +given, and see that names are legibly written, before sending +them to the Clerk of the Church. If not correct, the applicant +will be notified, and new applications will be required, as +none will be returned that are not correctly made out. This +requirement is to prevent applications being duplicated and the +confusion that might result therefrom. It is important that these +seemingly strict conditions 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 thereof. + +4. All names, whether of applicants, signers, or countersigners, +must be plainly 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 or Mrs. before their names as the +case may be. + +All names must be written the same in all places where they are +required. + + + + +TO APPLICANTS + + +1. In filling out the application blank, one of the Christian +names must be written in full. Initials alone will not be +received. + +2. If the applicant is a married woman she must sign her own +Christian name, not her husband's, and prefix her signature with +"Mrs;" unmarried women must sign "Miss." + +3. There are two regular forms of application. 1. For those who +have studied Christian Science with an authorized teacher; 2. For +those who have not studied Christian Science with a teacher. + +Applicants will find the chief points of these instructions +illustrated in Form 1 and Form 2, on pages 114 and 118. + +4. Those whose teachers are deceased, absent, or disloyal, or +those whose teachers refuse, without sufficient cause, to sign +applications (see Art. V, Sect. 4), will be furnished special +forms on application to the Clerk. + +5. When branch churches are designated by number, as First Church, +Second Church, etc., the number must be written First, Second, +as shown on page 118. The article "the" either capitalized (The), +or small (the), must not be used before titles of branch churches. +See Article XXIII, Sect. 2. + +6. If the applicant is not a member of a branch church, he should +fill out his application in this respect according to the form on +page 114. + + + + +APPLICATION FORMS + + +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 Massachusetts 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._ + + Gordon V. Comer 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. + + +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: + + +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 Massachusetts 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._ + + Gordon V. Comer 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 ........................ + + +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: + + +Application II + +SIGNED, ENDORSED, AND COUNTERSIGNED, + +ACCORDING TO ARTICLE VI, SECT. 2 + + +If you have not been taught by a loyal student who has taken a degree at +the Massachusetts 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._ + + Gordon V. Comer 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. + + +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 the 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: + + + + +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 spiritual 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 the first Section of the Lesson, the First Reader +makes the following announcement: "As announced 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 according to I John 3:1-3. + +14. Pronouncing Benediction. + +The services should be preceded and followed by organ or piano music +of an appropriate character 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. + + +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 repetition of the Lord's +Prayer, its spiritual interpretation 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 character in all cases where this is possible. + + +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 spiritual 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. + +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 character in all cases where this is possible. + + +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 +makes the following announcement: "As announced 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 congregation 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 according 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 character in all cases where this is possible. + + +Order of Exercises for the Sunday School of the Mother Church.[4] + +1. Call to order by the Superintendent. + +2. Hymn. + +3. Subject of the lesson announced; Golden Text repeated by the +children; Responsive Reading. + +4. Silent prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's +Prayer in unison. + +5. Instruction in classes, in accordance with Sections 2 and 3 of +Article XX of the Manual of The Mother Church. + +6. Entire school reassembles. + +7. Hymn. + +8. Scientific Statement of Being read by the Superintendent. + +9. School dismissed. + +[4] If a collection is taken, it should be taken in the classes +before they reassemble. + + +Deed of Trust + +_The following is a Copy of the Deed of Trust_ +_Conveying Land for Church Edifice_ + +KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, + +That I Mary Baker G. Eddy of Concord in the County of Merrimack and +State of New Hampshire in consideration of one dollar to me paid by +Ira O. Knapp of Boston, Massachusetts, William B. Johnson of Boston, +Massachusetts, Joseph S. Eastaman of Chelsea, Massachusetts, and +Stephen A. Chase of Fall River, Massachusetts, the receipt whereof is +hereby acknowledged, and, also in consideration of the trusts and +uses hereinafter mentioned and established, do hereby give, bargain, +sell, and convey to the said Ira O. Knapp, William B. Johnson, Joseph +S. Eastaman, and Stephen A. Chase as trustees as hereinafter provided +and to their legitimate successors in office forever, a certain +parcel of land situate on Falmouth street in said Boston, bounded and +described as follows: + +Beginning at the junction of Falmouth street, and a forty-foot street +now called Caledonia street; thence running Southwest on said +Falmouth street one hundred and sixteen and eighty-eight hundredths +feet; thence Northwest at a right angle to a point where a line drawn +at right angles to said forty-foot street at a point thereon one +hundred and sixteen and fifty-five hundredths feet Northwest from +the point of beginning meets the said boundary at right angles to +Falmouth street, sixty-six and seventy-eight hundredths feet; 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 +street; thence Southeasterly on said forty-foot street one hundred +and sixteen and fifty-five hundredths feet to the point of beginning; +containing seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight square +feet more or less, and subject to the agreements and restrictions +mentioned in a deed recorded in Suffolk Registry of Deeds Lib. 1719, +Fol 83 so far as the same are now legally operative. + +This deed of conveyance is made upon the following express trusts +and conditions which the said grantees by accepting this deed agree +and covenant for themselves and their successors in office to fully +perform and fulfil. + +1. Said grantees shall be known as the "Christian Science Board of +Directors," and shall constitute a perpetual body or corporation +under and in accordance with section one, Chapter 39 of the Public +Statutes of Massachusetts.[5] Whenever a vacancy occurs in said +Board the remaining members shall within thirty days fill the same +by election; but no one shall be eligible to that office who is not +in the opinion of the remaining members 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 Baker G. Eddy +beginning with the seventy-first edition thereof. + +[5] The deacons, church wardens, or other similar officers of +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 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 the and their successors, or to their respective churches, or to +the poor of their churches. + +2. Said Board shall within five years from the date hereof build or +cause to be built upon said lot of land a suitable and convenient +church edifice, the cost of which shall not be less than fifty +thousand dollars. + +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 Scientist; they shall maintain public worship in accordance +with the doctrines of Christian Science in said church, and for this +purpose they are fully empowered to make any and all necessary rules +and regulations. + +4. Said Board of Directors shall not suffer 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 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 permit in said church +building any preaching or other religious services which shall not be +consonant and in strict harmony with the doctrines and practice of +Christian Science as taught and explained by Mary Baker G. Eddy in +the seventy-first edition of her book entitled "SCIENCE AND HEALTH," +which is soon to be issued, and in any subsequent edition thereof. + +6. The congregation which shall worship in said church shall be +styled "The First Church of Christ, Scientist." + +7. Said Directors shall not sell or mortgage the land hereby +conveyed; but they shall see that all taxes and legal assessments +on said property are promptly paid. + +8. Said church building shall not be removed from said lot except +for the purpose of rebuilding thereon a more expensive or a more +convenient structure in which said doctrines of Christian 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 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 of the new edifice. If said building is burned, the +Directors shall forthwith proceed to rebuild the church. + +9. Said Directors shall maintain regular preaching, reading or +speaking in said church on each Sabbath, and an omission to have +and maintain such preaching, reading or speaking for one year in +succession shall be deemed a breach of this condition. + +10. Whenever said Directors shall determine that it is inexpedient to +maintain preaching, reading or speaking in said church in accordance +with the terms of this deed, they are authorized and required to +reconvey forthwith said lot of land with the building thereon to Mary +Baker G. Eddy, her heirs and assigns forever by a proper deed of +conveyance. + +11. The omission or neglect on the part of said Directors to strictly +comply with any of the conditions herein contained shall constitute +a breach thereof, and the title hereby conveyed shall revert to the +grantor Mary Baker G. Eddy, her heirs and assigns forever, upon +her entry upon said land and taking possession thereof for such +breach. + +To Have and to Hold the above granted premises with all the +privileges and appurtenances thereon belonging to said grantees and +their successors in office to the uses and trusts above described +forever. + +And the said grantor for herself and her heirs, executors and +administrators covenants with the said grantees and their successors +in office that she is lawfully seized in fee simple of the aforesaid +premises, that they are free from all incumbrances 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 +as aforesaid, and that she will and her heirs, executors, and +administrators shall, warrant and defend the same to the said +grantees and their successors in office forever against the lawful +claims and demands of all persons. + +In witness whereof I the said Mary Baker G. Eddy have hereto set +my hand and seal this 1st day of September, 1892. + + MARY BAKER G. EDDY. + +Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of + LAURA E. SARGENT. + R. E. WALKER. + +September 1st, 1892. + +STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, MERRIMACK. + +Then personally appeared the above named Mary Baker G. Eddy and +acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be her free act and deed, + +Before me + R. E. WALKER. + _Notary Public._ + +September 2, 1892. +SUFFOLK REGISTRY OF DEEDS, Lib. 2081, Fol. 257. + +Deed Conveying Land for Church Purposes + +METCALE _to_ KNAPP _et al. Trs._ +Libro 2886, Fol. 521. + +KNOW ALL MEN, + +That I, Albert Metcalf, the grantor in a certain deed given to Ira O. +Knapp and others dated October 23, 1896, and recorded with Suffolk +Deeds, Book 2591, page 398, do hereby declare that the land conveyed +by said deed was conveyed to the grantees therein, as they are the +Christian Science Board of Directors, upon the trusts, but not +subject to the conditions mentioned in the deed creating said Board +given by Mary Baker G. Eddy to Ira O. Knapp and others, dated +September 1st, 1892, and recorded with Suffolk Deeds, Book 2081, page +257. In addition to the trusts contained in said deed of September 1, +1892, from Mary Baker G. Eddy, this property is conveyed on the +further trusts that no new Tenet or By-Law shall be adopted, 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 "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES," be given +therefor, or unless at the written request of Mrs. Eddy the Executive +Members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, (formally called +the "First Members,") by a two-thirds vote of all their number, +decide so to do. 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. And in consideration of one dollar to me +paid by said Ira O. Knapp, William B. Johnson, Joseph Armstrong and +Stephen A. Chase, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, I do +hereby confirm the deed as above mentioned, and do grant and release +unto them, their heirs, successors and assigns in trust as aforesaid, +the premises therein described. + +In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this +nineteenth day of March, A. D. nineteen hundred and three. + +ALBERT METCALF. [Seal] + +COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS +SUFFOLK March 20th, 1903 + +Then said Albert Metcalf acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be +his free act and deed. + +Before me + MALCOLM McLOUD. + _Justice of the Peace._ + +March 20, 1903. at twelve o'clock and sixteen minutes P.M. + Received, Entered and Examined. + Attest: THOS. F. TEMPLE, _Reg_. + +A true copy from the RECORDS OF DEEDS for the COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, Lib. +2886, Fol. 521. + +Attest: CHAS. W. KIMBALL, _Asst. 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