Exhibit SS The Litigation Of 1919-1921 Was Never Settled
1. The Litigation of 1919-1921 has never been satisfactorily settled; and the
periodicals of the years 1920-1922 are often missing from Reading Room files.
2.
The usurpation of Mrs. Eddy's church by the 1910 Directors of the Mother Church was
a deliberate act to retain ecclesiastical control over the students of Mary Baker
Eddy's teachings, world-wide.
3. Mrs. Eddy passed on December 3, 1910, and
her 1910 Directors issued a new Church Manual, the 89th Edition, 14 days later on
December 17, 1910, with the year 1911 stamped on the cover and the words "and
Branch Churches" added to the headings on pages 120 and 127, which previously
stated "Present Order of Services in The Mother Church" and "Order
of Exercises for the Sunday School of the Mother Church" respectively. But this
change was not made in the Appendix section on page 14 of the Church Manual.
4.
In reply to the question, "Why was Mrs. Eddy's name removed from the Church
Manual as Pastor Emeritus on page 21, when she specifically stated that no change
in the Manual was to be made?" John V. Dittemore, Clerk and a Board member of
the Mother Church before Mrs. Eddy passed on, said that "The names of officers
of the church published in the front of the Manual have always been removed from
this page when they have passed away." (Boston-Journal, December 31, 1910).
"The death of Mrs. Eddy means little or nothing to us. This church is run as
a plain business proposition, and its future will be directed in accordance with
plain business principles." (The New York world, January 6, 1911).
5.
So much for the principles of Christianity and of God, in the face of so-called business.
6.
Furthermore, the publishing of the revised 89th Church Manual had not been announced
in the way prescribed by Mrs. Eddy. The Christian Science Sentinel always included
the statement, "Each New Edition of the Church Manual containing the By-Laws
of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts,
will have special notice in the Sentinel."
7. The last such notice, which
announced the 1910 88th Edition of the Church Manual, had been published in the September
3, 1910 issue 3 months, to the day before Mrs. Eddy passed on.
8. This advisory
statement continued to appear in the Sentinel up to and including the issue of January
14 in 1911 but no formal notice of the 89th Edition was ever given.
9. Other
questions were raised concerning bylaws that required Mrs. Eddy's consent before
vital church appointments and functions could be carried out. Such consent provisions
are called "estoppel clauses" in law.