Suffolk Probate and Family Court, 24 New Chardon Street, Boston Massachusetts
02114
Case No. 07e0072
DAVID E. ROBINSON, et al, pro se______________________ Plaintiff v. CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, et al______ Defendants
Exhibit AAAA Changes Made In The Church Manual
These are the changes made by the Directors of the dissolved Mother Church after
the last official 88th edition of the "Church Manual of The First Church
of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts", September 14, 1910. The revised
89th edition of the Church Manual came out on December 17, 1910, exactly two weeks
after Mary Baker Eddy passed-on, on December 3, 1910. The changes shown below cover
from 1910-1975. -- "Christian Science Our Glorious Heritage Where Has It
Gone", by C. Anderson, C.S.
YEAR [PAGE] CHANGE
1. 1910 [p.21]
Removed "Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Pastor Emeritus" from list of Church Officers.
(This removal was restored in 1924.)
2. 1910 [p.20] Added the unauthorized
phrase "and Branch Churches" to the end of the title.
3. 1910 [p.27]
Added the unauthorized phrase "and Branch Churches" to the end of the title.
4.
1910 [p.27] Added the footnote, "If a collection is taken..."
5.
1910 [title page] Added the descriptive title under the author's name.
6.
1912 [p.110] Added "exactly" before "compiled with."
7.
1912 [p.110] Changed "signers" to "approvers."
8. 1913
[pp.115,116,117] Removed "Yours in Truth and Love."
9. 1913 [pp.116,117]
Added, "I was formerly a member of ... denomination, but have definitely severed
my connection with,..."
10. 1914 [cover] Omitted the year of the edition.
11.
1914 [title page] Capitalized "the" to read "The Mother Church".
18. 1916 [p.17] Capitalized "th" in "The Mother
Church."
19. 1916 [p.127] Capitalized "the. in "The Mother
Church."
20. 1918 [cover] Added the author's name.
21. 1918 [title
page] Subsituted "The Christian Science Publishing Society" for the name
"Allison V. Stewart."
22. 1919 [p.68] Capitalized "the"
in "The Mother Church."
23. 1923 [title page] Substituted "For
the Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy" for "The Christian Science
Publishing Society."
24. 1924 [p.21] Restored "Rev. Mary Baker Eddy,
Pastor Emeritus" to list of church Officers.
25. 1925 [p.139] Added eleven
page Topical Index. This Topical Index did not list every By-Law nor every reference to
the selected word. The names of some By-Laws were changed as in "Local self-government,
pg.70." It is simply "Local Government" in the body of the text of
the Church Manual.
28. 1931 [p.18] Added the footnote: "The Charter itself
bears the date August 23, 1879."
29. 1933 [p.18] The above footnote (28)
is removed.
20. 1933 [p.19] Added and expanded footnote (from pg.18).
29.
1933 [cover] Added "Authorized Edition" to some editions.
30. 1933
[title page] Added "Reg. Pat" to some editions.
31. 1934 [p.45]
Capitalized "the" in "The Mother Church Manual."
33. 1934
[p.49] Italicized "The Christian Science Journal"
34. 1934 [p.51]
Capitalized "church". in "No Church discipline."
35. 1934
[p.51] Capitalized "church" in "Church member"
36. 1934
[p.64] Capitalized "reading rooms" to read "Reading Rooms."
37.
1934 [p.70] Capitalized "law" in "By-Law."
38. 1934 [p.74]
Capitalized "reading rooms" to read "Reading Rooms."
43. 1934 [item 14 p.126] Changed
capitalization and removed quotation marks from "The scientific statement of
being" to become,"the Scientific Statement of Being."
44. 1934
[p.110] Added quotation marks to Miss. and Mrs.
45. 1938 [cover] All wording
was removed leaving only the seal to some editions.
46. 1940 [title page]
Date of each edition removed.
47. 1940-41 [p.21] Date of current "Church
Officers" added to bottom of page.
48. 1943-44 [title page] Signature
of Mary Baker Eddy added, Registered US Patent Office omitted.
49. 1951-52
[item 9 p.120] Capitalized "selection" to read Selection.
50. 1951-52
[item 10 p.125] Capitalized and changed"selection" to "Scriptural
Selection."
51. 1952-53 Removed eleven page topical index.
52.
1972-73 [p.130] Editor's Note: changed the qualification "citizen" to "resident"
(Who is the editor of the unrevisable Manual?)
53. 1973-74 [title page] Changed
"Published by" from "Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy"
to "The First Church of Christ, Scientist"
54. 1973-74 [copyright
page] Removed "Authorized Literature"; Changed trademark notice from "Trustees
under the Will" to "The Christian Science Board of Directors."
55.
1973-74 [p.15] Added the footnote regarding the special copyright.
56. 1981
[p.17] Changed the day date from April 19 to 12.
NOTE 1: ....this property
is conveyed on the further thrusts that no new...By-Law shall be adopted, nor any...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,..." (1903-04 Trust Agreements, Manual p.137).
NOTE
2: These dates have been verified by the particular original "Manual of the
Mother Church The First Church of Christ Scientist In Boston, Massachusetts By
Mary Baker Eddy, Eighty-eigth Edition, 1910" the year indicated either on the
title page or after 1940 on page 21, "Church Officers."
NOTE 3:
The "Cross & Crown seal" was added to the cover of the Manual, in 1916,
in violation of Mrs. Eddy's intent, to change it in appearance to look like an ecclesiastical
rule book instead of the legal document that it is.
CSCourtCase.info, 96 Maine Street #108, Brunswick, Maine 04011