1. There are controversial statements in the "Church Manual of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts," which require Mrs. Eddy's approval in one form of another, in order that certain actions can be carried out under the requirements of the Manual.

2. Over the years since Mrs. Eddy's passing, on December 3, 1910, questions have been raised by the Field concerning these statements in the church Manual By-Laws. These undercurrents from the Field have resulted in a series of pamphlets published by the Boston church authorities, stressing the "Permanency of The Mother church and its Manual."

3. To many of the members of the Mother Church, the appearance of these pamphlets is surprising. The need to justify the continuance of the church organization seems unnecessary. To other members of the Mother Church, it is another evidence of dissatisfaction in the Field reaching those in authority in Boston.

4. If Mary Baker Eddy formed the church and intended it to continue forever, why is it necessary to present pamphlets presenting opinions and interpretations from hired legal advisers to justify its continued existence?

5. On the other hand, if Mrs. Eddy did not intend the church organization to continue forever, why is there such a concerted effort by the Boston church authorities to stubbornly continue the church organization in the face of Mrs. Eddy's instructions?

6. The church Manual is the governing body of the church organization.

7. Mrs. Eddy left explicit written instructions to dissolve the material organization, -- and these instructions are known in the legal sense as "estoppel clauses."

8. At a meeting of the Christian Scientist Association, April 12, 1879, it moved to organize a church, "designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing."

9. This Church was chartered under civil law [1879], and thus its first allegiance would be to civil law. Changes in civil law over the years could have adverse effects on the Church.

10. Ten years later, in 1889, Mrs. Eddy dissolved this first organization and her Massachusetts Metaphysical College "at the pinnacle of prosperity." Here we see the early appearance, in the second organization, of her estoppels, by Mrs. Eddy's following statement at that time:

"When students have fulfilled all the good ends of organization, and are convinced that by leaving the material forms thereof a higher spiritual unity is won, then is the time to follow the example of the Alma Mata. Material organization is requisite in the beginning; but when it has done its work, the purely Christly method of teaching and preaching must be adopted."

11. Here is clear evidence that our Leader did not intend that a material church organization should continue forever.

12. She wrote that, "In the year 1889, to gain a higher hope for the race, I closed my College [and my Church] in the midst of unprecedented property, left Boston, and sought in solitude and silence a higher understanding of the absolute scientific unity which must exist between the teaching and letter of Christianity and the spirit of Christianity, dwelling forever in the divine Mind or Principle of man.s being and revealed thorough the human character."

"Our Master said: 'What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter,' and the spirit of his mission, the wisdom of his words, and the immortality of his works are the same to-day as yesterday and forever."

13. Granted, the citations quoted above, from My. 246, were written before the founding of the second church organization on September 23, 1892, but Judge Smith was an astute lawyer who hedged his statements well. He excluded Mrs. Eddy statements which were occasioned by the dissolving of the first organization.

14. Even so, a careful reading of these statement reveals that Mrs. Eddy did not limit them to the dissolved first organization, but couched them in broad terms to cover a future organization as well as the branches yet to be formed. Not only that, but we see that she made these statements even more explicit and positive by incorporating estoppel clauses in the Manual to govern the Mother Church and its members.

15. Following the complete dissolution of the entire first organization in 1889, Mrs. Eddy retired from public view, and brought our a completely revised edition of Science and Health, the 50th edition, in 1891.

16. During this period her students urged her to re-form the church a second time. She was reluctant in the extreme to go back to a position outgrown, but she wrote that, "This church may find it wisdom to organize a second time to complete its history. This, however, is left to the providence of God."

17. Then on September 1, 1892, Mrs. Eddy executed a Deed of Trust which gave land to four grantees, who were trustees of the Trust, to build a church edifice. And she identified the congregation which would worship in this edifice to be built, as "The First Church of Christ, Scientis". (Item 6, 1892 Deed of Trust).