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

1. As a further step in the establishment of true church government, Mrs. Eddy, on January 25, 1898, executed the Deed of Trust to the Christian Science Publishing Society as a "perpetual and irrevocable trust and confidence." With this act, she provided for the "irrevocable" and forever separation of the organization of the Publishing Society from the Church.

2. This Deed created a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees to whom Mrs. Eddy gave authority "to manage the business of the Publishing Society on its own responsibility without consulting her." (Deed of Trust of 1898).

3. However, in 1908, soon after Mrs. Eddy's passing in 1910, the claim of ecclesiasticism came out into the open culminating in the "Great Publishing House Litigation" of 1919-1920, which resulted in nullifying [breaching] the 1898 Deed of Trust and in making the Board of Trustees of the Publishing House subservient to the Board of Directors of the usurped Mother Church, who claim to be "the highest ecclesiastical court in the world."

4. Since 1920, until the present, this lie of ecclesiasticism -- this negative interpretation of true church government -- has assumed more and more of its self-appointed right to govern and control the Christian Science Movement, not only in disobedience to Mrs. Eddy"s plan of true government as outlined in the two foundational Deeds of Trust, but also in direct disobedience to many By-laws in the Manual.

5. And those today, who flagrantly disobey and "abandon" its By-laws, still admit to the God-inspired origin of the Manual.

6. For the first time, in 1901, Mrs. Eddy had her Manual By-laws established in such a form that obedience to them would automatically dissolve the Mother Church at the time of her passing by changing the provisions in the Manual so that no officer of the Mother Church could be elected or appointed without her approval or consent. In this way, Mrs. Eddy concentrated all the Mother Church government under the control of the Directors, and then by the use of the estoppel clauses, requiring her approval or consent for the functioning of the Mother Church, this control was automatically taken from them, when her approval or consent could no longer be obtained, after her passing.

7. There might be some misgiving regarding the dissolution of the "Mother Church" had not Mrs. Eddy left adequate provisions for carrying on the activities of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts," -- without central contro -- and the independent "Christian Science Publishing Society," in the 1892 and 1898 foundational Deeds of Trust. The second Deed provides for the publishing of Christian Science literature, separate and apart from the jurisdiction of the Church.

8. Other acts of Mrs. Eddy point unquestionably to the fact that it was her intention that the Mother Church government -- but not the government of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, -- should end at her passing.

9. In 1903, Mrs. Eddy changed the name of the "First Members" to "Executive Members" and at about the same time she changed her title from "Mother" to "Leader," forbidding anyone thereafter from calling her "Mother." (Man. Art. 22, Sec. 1).

10. All these incidents, from 1901 to 1910, illustrate Mrs. Eddy's steps all in line with, and leading up to the completion of her work at the time of her passing in 1910, and the dissolving of her Mother Church government.

11. The time from 1907 to the time when Mrs. Eddy passed on in 1910 was her final "withdrawal period." In 1907, she made her last general revision of Science and Health. After that time, the changes she made were confined to only individual statements of spiritual instruction.

12. Also by 1907, she was attacked in court by her own family and relatives who attempted to discredit her character and disprove her sanity, and the sanity of her Revelation to mankind. However, Mrs. Eddy was vindicated
in the judgement of the court and the world.

13. In February, 1908, Mrs. Eddy added to Science and Health the three lines closing the chapter on Christian Science Practice: "Christian Scientists, be a law unto yourselves that mental malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when awake" This admonition seems to indicate that she was soon to withdraw her personal guidance.

14. In the same year (1908), Mrs. Eddy abolished Communion in the Mother Church, but not in the 111 branch churches. With regard to this, Mrs. Eddy wrote:

"Beloved Christian Scientists: -- Take courage. God is leading you onward and upward. Relinquishing a material form of communion advances it spiritually. The material form is a 'Suffer it to be so now,' and is abandoned so soon as God's Wayshower, Christ, points the advanced step..." (My. 140).

15. In 1909, Mrs. Eddy had to rebuke actions in a New York branch church. She said, at the time, in part:

"I have crowned The Mother Church building with the spiritual modesty of Christian Science, which is its jewel. When my dear brethren in New York desire to build higher, they must begin on a wholly spiritual foundation than which there is no other ... only as they build upon the rock of Christ, the spiritual foundation. This will open the way, widely and impartially, to their never ending success." (My. 357).

16. Thus near the end of her forty-five years work of founding Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy here gives to every Church of Christ, Scientist, the exact recipe for its success in Christian Science, and the only foundation upon which it can build.

17. The passing of Mrs. Eddy on December 3rd, 1910, automatically brought to a close her second period of organization. It also automatically brought into operation her "Thou Shalt Nots" in the Manual, and closed out forever the centrally controlled government of the Mother Church.