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

1. The governing consideration of the Manual is that after Mrs. Eddy's demise in 1910, no appointment involving Mrs. Eddy's approval or consent could be carried out in accordance with the Manual, consequently the world-wide Mother Church ceased to exist, while The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts continued under its 1892 Deed of Trust.

2. The chief duty of its four Directors under the 1892 Deed of Trust is to "maintain public worship in accordance with the doctrines of Christian Science in said church" (para. 3, Man. 131) for which purpose "they are fully empowered to make any and all necessary rules and regulations."

3. Presumably the Clerk and Treasurer would be members of the four member Board of Trustees itself, as was the case in Mrs. Eddy's time, and two Readers and the officers and teachers of the Sunday School should be all that would be necessary for that purpose.

4. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston Massachusetts is to be a voluntary association without members, for "the congregation which shall worship in said church shall be styled 'The First Church of Christ, Scientist'"

5. Even the First Church of Christ, Scientist was not expected to continue indefinitely. Mrs. Eddy foreshadowed the time when it would be "inexpedient to maintain preaching, reading, and speaking in said church in accordance with the terms of this [1802] deed," after which the land and buildings were to be reconveyed to Mrs. Eddy's assigns who would be the four Director/Trustees who were to oversee her residuary estate under her Will.

6. The four member Christian Science Board of Directors would outlive The First Church of Christ, Scientist itself, to administer Mrs. Eddy's residuary estate.

7. No further Lecturers would be appointed. (Art. 31, Sect. 1). No further Teachers would be appointed. (Art. 28, Sect. 2). The Board of Education would be closed (Art. 28, Sect. 4) and since the signature of the President of the Board of Education is required on all certificates issued (Art. 30, Sect. 3), no certificates could be issued.

8. Once her supervision was removed, Mrs. Eddy arranged for the cessation of all personal exposition of her teachings under any official sanction of a headquarters, including that of the Christian Science Publishing Society, which would be monitored by all Christian Scientists who cared to do so.

9. "My published works are teachers and healers" (My 218); "You can well afford to give me up, since you have my last revised edition of Science and Health as you teacher and guide." (Misc. 136). Christian Scientist should turn to Mrs. Eddy's works alone for right instruction as to what Christian Science really teaches.

10. "The practitioner...should teach his students." (My. 364).

11. "The student who heals by teaching and teaches by healing, will graduate under divine honors, which are the only appropriate seals of Christian Science." (Misc. 315).

12. Every practitioner should teach, though not necessarily in regular formal classes. Mrs. Eddy allows "Christian Scientists all over the world, who are letterly fit and specially spiritually fitted for teachers to teach three classes annually." (Misc. 315).

13. The inference here is that Mrs. Eddy saw the need for personal instruction diminishing, and it is possible that she might have eventually stopped personal instruction if she had continued with us.

14. The disappearance of the Mother Church would involve the disappearance of the Committee on Publication for the Mother Church. The Committee on Publication is quite outside of the sphere of the duties assigned to the four Directors by the 1892 Deed of Trust.

15. There could no longer be a President of the Mother Church, and the annual meetings of the Mother Church would cease.

16. "The editors and the manager of The Christian Science Publishing Society" (Art. 1, Sect. 3) could not be elected by the Directors under the Manual, for "the consent of the Pastor Emeritus given in her own handwriting. is required for said election, nor under the 1892 Deed of Trust. They would therefore be appointed by the Trustees of the Christian Science Publishing Society under para. 6 of the 1898 Deed of Trust.

17. Trusteeships and Syndicates can no longer be formed subject to the approval of the Pastor Emeritus. (Art. 1, Sect. 8).

18. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts will maintain "a reading room." (Art. 21, Sect. 2).

19. Even though the maintaining of a Reading Room is not included among the duties of the Directors in para. 3 of their 1892 Deed of Trust, still the instruction in the Manual that .Each church of the Christian Science denomination shall have a Reading Room. would authorize this step, and justify the Directors in appointing a Librarian without obtaining Mrs. Eddy's consent. (Art. 21, Sect. 2).

20. To sum up what has been said above.

21. The Mother Church ceased to exist with Mrs. Eddy's passing, and the five-member Christian Science Board of Directors and the membership ceased to exist with the Mother Church.

22. The four-member Christian Science Board of Directors continue to exist, however, as Trustees under the 1892 Deed of Trust of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

23. As such, they would keep services going in the Extension of the original edifice of the Mother Church, for which purpose they would elect a Clerk and a Treasurer from their own number and two Readers and Officers and Teachers for the Sunday School from outside the Board; they would also appoint a Librarian for the local Reading Room.

24. They could no longer appoint Lecturers or Teachers, or a President for annual meetings which would cease to exist along with the world-wide material Mother Church.

25. The four-member Board of Directors would be the hosting body for the "congregation" that is "styled" The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts