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

1. In the Literature Litigation of 1919-1921, both parties claimed that the other party was entirely wrong in their reading of the following article in the Manual:

"The Christian Science Board of Directors shall have the power to declare vacancies in said trusteeship [of the Christian Science Publishing Society] for such reason as to the Board may seem expedient." (Article 35, Section 3).

2. The Trustees read this By-Law as stating that if a vacancy should occur, the Directors could state that a vacancy has occurred.

3. The Directors themselves read this By-Law as stating that they have the power to dismiss any Trustee, and that Mrs. Eddy's intended purpose was not to keep the Christian Science Publishing Society as a separate branch, but to make it an integral part and activity of the Mother Church, because the powers of the First Members are vested in the Board of Directors, and therefore according to the Manual, the Board has power to dismiss any of the Trustees.

4. The Board of Directors state that "such an interpretation as the Trustees claim to the contrary would give only such duties as is conferred on any other member of the church."

5. The Directors erroneous claims overlook the fact that the 1898 Deed of Trust was irrevocable and nonamendable, even by Mrs. Eddy herself, and that the first five By-Laws in the Manual terminated their office as ecclesiastical Directors, after Mrs. Eddy.s demise of 1910.

6. Furthermore, Although the five-man, ecclesiastical Board of Directors were authorized by the Manual to be able to dismiss a Trustee of the Publishing Society .for good cause shown. (a legal expression), only the remaining two Trustees were authorized by Mrs. Eddy to appoint a replacement. At no time were the Directors of the Mother Church authorized to dismiss all of the Trustees at once, for there would be no Trustees left to appoint replacements in the Trusteeship.

7. This check and balance which Mrs. Eddy established, remained, until the five-man, ecclesiastical Board of Directors ceased to exist.