1. Why did Mary Baker G. Eddy leave her church in the control of five Board members and the Field with no recourse but to follow the dictates of the Board?

2. Maybe she did not!

3. Consider these important points:

4. The Mother Church is governed by the Manual of the Church. All members, including the members of the Board, freely accepted its provisions when they joined the church.

5. The fear of being delisted from the Christian Science Journal if one displeases the Directors, is very real throughout the Field in the thoughts of the officially approved practitioners, lecturers, and teachers. Even branch churches are afraid of being delisted from the Journal if they "rock-the-boat" or fail to heed the so-called "suggestions" of the Directors in Boston. Thought control and enforced conformity is not the way of Christian Science nor of Jesus Christ.

6. "When error confronts you, withhold not the rebuke or the explanation which destroys error." (Mary Baker Eddy at S&H, p.452).

7. I can think of no other organization or corporation outside of the Catholic hierarchy that fails or refuses to render to its members or stockholders a full detailed and point for point report of moneys received and spent, especially where the money comes from, nor of any good reason for such a refusal.

8. Full opportunity is thus afforded the lowest stockholder, even if he owns but one share, to delve into the most intimate dealing of the Company. He can and is invited to question management, openly, at the annual meeting about any item in the report, and criticize each item if he so desires. This right has never been questioned. It is ingrained by tradition, custom, and law. It is the American way.

9. Just as the stockholders collectively own the Company; and as the officers and board work for them, the members of the institution (comprise) and "own" the organization.

10. In this respect, each participant in good standing in the organization that has accepted his contributions or dues, earns a vested (invested) interested in the organization. Therefore, he is entitled to know to what use his contributions are put and whether they conform to the purposes for which the organization was established.

11. Any institution that refuses to disclose such information to its participants is repugnant to mutual good relations and leads inevitably to the suspicion that its resources are being poorly administered or squandered, or still worse, being partially employed to enrich its administrators who have been given power without the responsibility of accounting for what they do.

12. If the stewards of any treasury defiantly frustrate the right of the members to know exactly where and how their funds are being utilized and where they come from, the inference that they are hiding the truth cannot be ruled out. By withholding the truth they hold the participants in bondage to the lie.

13. The cavalier attitude of the current Board of Directors of the dissolved Mother Church indicates that they have forgotten that when Mrs. Eddy appointed their predecessors to that office of trust, she did not expect them or their successors to lose the humility and intense dedication that she herself reflected to the followers of her Cause.