1. Evolution, not revolution, is the true line of progress. When evolution is checked, revolution may be necessary. If Mrs. Eddy's instructions as given in the Manual and in the Deeds of Trust are obediently followed, the natural evolution of the Church of Christ, Scientist, is assured.

2. The Key to the situation lies in the first and the last bylaws of the Manual. The last bylaw provides that the Manual shall not be altered but read just as Mrs. Eddy left it. The first bylaw provides that "the officers of the Mother Church are to consist of the Pastor Emeritus, a Board of Directors, a President, a Clerk, A Treasurer, and two Readers." Ever since Mrs. Eddy's passing, therefore, the attempt has been made to carry on the Mother Church without its Chief Executive Office (CEO), the one officer to whom is given in the bylaws the supervision over all other officers, an office holder who can never be replaced!

3. It is clear, then, that the Mother Church, by which is meant the world-wide organization of that name, ceased to exist on Mrs. Eddy's passing, leaving Christian Scientists to demonstrate their membership of the one true Church governed solely by divine Principle, which is God.

4. But did this make it impossible to carry on the organization? No! The 1892 Deed of Trust on pages 128-134 of the Manual enables The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., to continue, although the powers of its directors, powers which in the deed are in no way subject to Mrs. Eddy.s supervision or approval, are limited to those specified in this Deed in 1892 and in the separate Deed of the Christian Science Publishing Society in 1898.

5. The branch churches could continue under Art. XXIII (23), Sect. 6, while the Christian Science Publishing Society can continue indefinitely under its own .perpetual and irrevocable. Deed of Trust which gives all necessary powers to the Trustees who, need not be members of the Mother Church, according to paragraph 9 of the Publishing Society Deed of Trust.

6. Thus it will be seen that instead of a highly centralized organization such as Mrs. Eddy deemed necessary during the pioneer stage of the movement, there would be an almost entirely decentralized one, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, being a special church and thus differing uniquely from the other churches, societies and meetings in the movement, while the Publishing Society would also be a thing apart.

7. Some people are liable to think that there would then be no further use for the Manual. Let them read it with the above points in view and they will find that only then will the Manual begin to unfold.

8. Like the Deeds of Trust, the Manual is also a legal instrument and not merely or simply a set of rules for the personal conduct of church members. Mrs. Eddy gave her Manual the status of a civil contract under the jurisdiction of the laws of the land when she repeated in it the estoppel on page 105 that .No new Tenet or By-Law shall be adopted, nor any Tenet or By-Law amended or annulled, without the written consent of Mary Baker Eddy, the author of our textbook, Science and Health.. (See this statement.s mirror image as phrased in the 1903 Deed of Trust reproduced in the Manual on pages 136-138).

9. What's more, the Manual is Mrs. Eddy's Legal Will for her Church since the provisions of her Will come under the wholly fiduciary 1892 Deed of Trust.

10. Mrs. Eddy's Will (1901-1904) and the Deed of Trust (September 1, 1892) are wholly outside of Church (September 23, 1892).

11. The extract of the Manual on page 3l indicates the true spirit in which Christian Scientists should regard the Manual. The bylaws are not "dictatorial demands, such as one person might impose on another," nor are they in the nature of "absolute doctrines destined for future generations," as so many people have been led to believe. They were intended to be a "help" that is designed "to maintain the dignity and defense of our Cause," and if they had been obeyed as Mrs. Eddy intended them to be, we should have been spared the spectacle of the lawsuits of recent years and the lawsuit of today.