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

1. Judge Smith concludes his initial paragraph, referred to in the previous post, with this sentence:

"From the time when she [Mrs. Eddy] founded The Mother Church all that she did and said evinced the intention that it should be permanent."

2. This sweeping statement seems to embrace the entire period from September 1, 1892 to December 3, 1910 when Mrs. Eddy passed on. But during this period, she added the 29 or so estoppel clauses which would bring a halt to The Mother Church, its officers, its various offices and its various functions.

3. She refers to her .instructions. in the Church Manual, in the letter dated February 27, 1903, reproduced in Judge Smith's article. Apparently, only Judge Clifford Smith, the Board of Directors, and the legal firms retained by the Board in the late 1920s, to confirm their assumption of control of the church government, were the only ones who could read within the Church Manual an interpretation that Mrs. Eddy intended for the human organization to go one forever. Why the big fuss?

4. Because those trustees under the 1892 Deed of Trust could fill their own vacancies without reference to anyone. And since the Deed was "perpetual" the legal phrase "and to their successors in office forever" is unquestioned.

5. Endeavoring, however, to grant perpetuity to the ecclesiastical Board of Directors, established in the Church Manual (see Article 1, Section 5, p.16), making them identical with the Board under the 1892 Deed of Trust, is an effort to annul the estoppel clause in Article 1, Section 5, which states, in part, "The Christian Science Board of Directors shall consist of five members. TheY shall fill a vacancy occurring on that Board after the candidate is approved by the Pastor Emeritus."

6. The whole effort of the Directors over the years has been to make the two Boards appear to be identical, and then to operate under the Deed of Trust provision whereby the fiduciary Board is perpetual. This is a direct violation of Article 35, Section 1 and 3 of the Church Manual.