DAVID E. ROBINSON, et al, pro se______________________
Plaintiff
v.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, et al______
Defendants

1. In the Foreword to the Christian Science Pamphlet, Permanency of the Mother Church and its Manual, the Christian Science Board of Directors cite a sentence in a letter that Mrs. Eddy wrote to them, from her home in Concord, N.H., on February 27, 1903, as being what they refer to as "the consent or approval that would enable them to act, in the words of Matthew 8:9, .under authority.," -- it being:

"For I am a man under authority having soldiers under me and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it."

3. This citation gives the false impression that the Directors are specifically authorized to act by Mrs. Eddy herself.

4. The Directors go on to say that:

"By 1902 the most basic structural changes in the Church had been effected, and in that year she sent to the Christian Science Board of Directors the famous letter, to be found on pages 12-13 of this pamphlet, with its central message: "Never abandon the By-Laws no the denominational government of the Mother Church." In that same year she drew up a new By-Law requiring Christian Scientists to drop "the endearing term of Mother," which they had given her some years before and to substitute the term "Leader".

5. Further on the Directors state that:

"Science and Health would always be the authority for teaching and practicing Christian Science, while the Manual of the Mother Church would always be the authority for carrying on the activities of the Church of Christ, Scientist." Wrong.

6. The Directors should have correctly said that: "...the Manual of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, would always be the authority for carrying on the activities of the Mother Church."

7. The Directors cite what Mrs. Eddy wrote in the Christian Science Journal in 1909; one year before Mrs. Eddy's passing, in 1910:

"I approve the By-Laws of the Mother Church, and require the Christian Science Board of Directors to maintain them and sustain them. And I hereby publicly declare that I am not personally involved in the affairs of the Church in any other way than through my written and published rules, all of which can be read by the individual who desires to inform himself of the facts."

8. The Directors go on to say that:
"The continuity of her leadership was not to depend upon her personal presence. While actions taken under certain important By-Laws required her written or verbal consent, her most trusted legal advisor, Henry M. Baker, made clear that this would cause no legal problem when she was no longer available in person to give such consent."

"On the other hand, by leaving these 'consent' clauses in the By-Laws, our Leader indicated that the church officers responsible for administrating the Manual would be morally and spiritually responsible at all times for bringing their actions into strict accord with her .written and published rules. and with the letter and spirit of her published writings as a whole. This was the consent or approval . . ."

"Nowhere in Mrs. Eddy's writings has she given the slightest indication that she intended the Manual to become inoperative when she passed on. This is attested to by the following clauses in her last will, executed in 1901, and was in no way modified by two later codicils." Wrong.

9. The whole truth and nothing but the truth discloses the fallacy of the directors. position.

10. Before the 5-man ecclesiastical Board was established in 1903, Mrs. Eddy's Will, dated 1901, stated the beneficiary of her residuary estate to be "The Mother Church -- The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts." After the 5-man ecclesiastical Board of Directors was established in 1903, the Second Codicil to Mrs. Eddy's Will, dated 1904, stated the beneficiary of her residuary estate to be "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts," with no mention of the Mother Church in the Second Codicil at all.

11. Furthermore, in Mrs. Eddy's letter of February 27, 1903, to the Christian Science Board of Directors, she was essentially ordering them to "Never abandon the By-Laws of the denominational government of the Mother Church." ; not only the Field.

12. As an enabling clause to bind and confirm this order, she told them to "heed the teachings of St. Paul [which] are as useful today as when they were first written." And she told the Directors to "put this letter upon our church records." (Entered on page 85 of Church Record Book Vol. 3).

13. The teachings of St. Paul, of which Mrs. Eddy writes in her letter, which are to be as useful today as when they were first written, refers to 1 Corinthinans 6:1, where the Apostle Paul says, "Dare any of you, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?"

14. The phrase, "My instructions in the By-Laws" does not cover interpretations by others or setting aside the estoppels. The estoppels are the very basic instructions that she left.

15. The statement of Mrs. Eddy's most trusted legal advisor, Henry M. Baker,-- that actions taken under certain important By-Laws requiring her written or verbal consent would cause no legal problem when she was no longer available in person to give such consent -- would have held true, had the 5- man, ecclesiastical Board of Directors obeyed the Manual estoppel on page 26, and stepped aside in honor of the 4-man Board of Trustees under the 1892 Deed of Trust.