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

The Chief Justice of the Full Bench found the Directors of TMC and their attorney, Clifford P. Smith, guilty of acting in contempt of the Master's injunction and required them to pay a fine or go to jail. (Christian Science Today,
by Charles S. Braden, pages 81, 82).

The honorable Charles Evens Hughes -- who later became Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court -- saw the issue clearly and in his summary argument for the Publishing Society, said: "There are two concepts of harmony. One concept is the harmony produced by obedience to despotic power; the other concept is the harmony that results from the unity of ideas and common views of a religious truth. It seems to us most unjust to Mrs. Eddy, most contrary to her teachings, to assume for one moment that she relied upon the exercise of the despotic power which these Directors have arrogated to themselves. The unity which these [Directors] wish to maintain -- the unity of despotic power; the absolute control of the entire government of Christian Science in the church, and in the publications, and everywhere else -- is the unity which might well destroy the very faith of the organization established to propagate the faith to which they profess to be devoted..