1. Since a non-citizen of the United States could not be a board member, when
Mrs. Eddy left us in 1910, then a non-citizen cannot be a board member today without
changing the structure of the church government Mrs. Eddy devised. Why did the Board
wait for forty-five years, and the eleven Kerry letters before informing the Field
that they had changed the Manual?
2. Mrs. Eddy knew what the law was in 1892,
and right down through the date of her passing in 1910 she did not ask that the law
be changed. This she could have done, but did not do.
3. The Directors assert
that there has been "no change in the content of any of the Manual bylaws"
but they freely admit that there has been an "addition" (revision) in the
editor's note on page 130, at the bottom of the page.
4. Incidently, who is
the editor of the Manual that cannot be changed, and what is the source of his authority?
(quo warranto).
5. As far as the Field is concerned, a certain printed book
in its entirety between two covers constitutes the church Manual; and a majority
of the Field insists that not one word or one symbol anywhere between those covers,
whether in the bylaws or in the appendix or anywhere else, be added, deleted or changed
from the way it was when Mrs. Eddy passed on in 1910, regardless of a change in the
State statutes eight decades later, or in anything else.
6. No one could possibly
claim that the Manual.s most vital bylaws have not been annulled ever since the Board
of Directors elected all of the Officers of the Mother Church six months after Mrs.
Eddy's passing, in direct violation of the Manual's provision that the Clerk and
Treasurer of the Mother Church, together with the other Officers, could not be elected
without "the consent of the Pastor Emeritus given in her own handwriting."
Clerk and Treasurer. Sect. 3. Incumbents who have served one year or more,
may be reelected, or new officers elected, at the annual meeting for this purpose,
by a unanimous vote of the Christian Science Board of Directors and the consent of
the Pastor Emeritus given in her own handwriting.
7. Thus the Board of Directors
perpetuated the Manual change, despite the fact that Mrs. Eddy had dissolved that
five member Board by her prohibitive bylaws (estoppels) of 1901 through 1904.
8.
The expiration of each and all of their respective terms of office occurred simultaneously
on June, 1911, six months after the legal estoppels of the Manual provided for the
harmonious dissolution of the Mother Church. Its legal estoppels needed no aid or
human adjustment to accomplish the legal disposal of the Mother Church in its reversion
to being "the structure of Truth and Love" in its Founders eyes.
9.
Mrs. Eddy relinquished Motherhood when she forbade the future use of the title "Mother"
in the Manual, in 1893. (Art. 22, Sect. 1). She shortly followed this by removing
the title .Mother. in large mosaics at the door of Mother's Room in the Mother Church
and substituted her Name as Leader, therefore, before the laying of the cornerstone
of the Extension on her 82nd birthday, July 16, 1904.
10. Mrs. Eddy publicly
conveyed her "Leadership" to her "written and published rules"
(her legal Manual) when she said, "...I hereby publicly declare that I am not
personally involved in the affairs of the church in any way other than through my
written and published rules..." (My. 359, 8-11).