The responsibility of the typical Branch had always been placed by Mrs. Eddy upon the shoulders of the branches to prepare them for the final prophesied “half a time” of Motherhood. (Rev. 12:14).

This prophesy of the unpreparedness of the branches to bear the government upon their shoulders after the passing of Motherhood on the threshold of the 20th Century is expressed in the first three verses of Revelation Chapter 13, which reads,

“And I . . . saw a beast rise up our of the sea (the confusion after the passing away of Motherhood in 1908), having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns (symbols of victory), . . . and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death (by the first challenge of its authority in the litigation of 1919); and his deadly wound was healed (its authority was seemingly justified).”

This “beast” (governing authority) is the Uzziah-like would-be helpfulness, which kills, demanded by the dragon of Old Theology, which arises to steady the tottering Ark of the Covenant, but changes the purpose of the church from that of a demonstrable Science back to the religiousity of the Father Church founded by Mary Baker Eddy at Boston in 1879 on Jesus, which Mrs. Eddy dissolved ten years later in 1889, as historically recorded in the church Manual on p.17.

Three years later, the Father Church was reorganized as the Mother Church, upon the basis of an entirely changed mission, “designed to be built on the Rock, Christ; . . . healing and saving the world (beyond individual healing) from sin and death.” (Man., p.19).

Thus when Mrs. Eddy permitted the building of the Extension to The little Mother Church (which started with the preparation of the ground in 1903) she forbade, via the Manual, the further use of the title “Mother” as applicable to herself, substituting therefore the title of “Leader.”

She reminded The Mother Church in her Message at the dedication of the Extension in 1906, that the room of its “Leader” still “remains in the beginning of this (little Mother Church) edifice, the Mother Church as “the Cross” as distinguished from the Extension as its “Crown.”

For her own students — pledged to life membership in the “Assembly of Christians” (Christianity) — needed the aid of her further Leadership during their passage from Motherhood to Branch. The branches that built the Extension had their pattern of Leadership in the impersonal, second Concord Branch.

Had Mrs. Eddy’s students seen this vital step to Branch and ceased to call her “Mother” (which they continued to do until her passing), this might have overruled the prophecy of the passing of Motherhood at the point of its finished “half a time” of the consciousness of Bride, typed by the Branch-idea.

Mrs. Eddy students, at her request, formed, built, and governed The Mother church through and under her leadership until she took the reins of government into her own hands, in 1903, in preparation for the final “half-time of Motherhood.

Only the branches (or those who have seen their spiritual significance) will reach the full measure of the “Promised Land” of Church demonstration.

One must not necessarily be a member of a branch church or society to do so, but he must identify this last associated step in Christian Science understandingly in his own life; understanding the “New Jerusalem” and “the Kingdom of Heaven, or reign of harmony on earth," which can be attained only “in some degree” and which must be reached by the branches.

The symbolism of the Bible must be understood by the branches and its spirit incorporated into one’s life in order to bring the full measure of freedom for which they were divinely revealed, and for which Mrs. Eddy has left a definite procedure (process) by which this can be done in or out of church organization. This spiritual understanding, itself, is the Branch of Zechariah 6:12.

“Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is the BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place (out of the Motherhood of the Mother Church), and he shall build the temple of the Lord.”