Suffolk Probate and Family Court, 24 New Chardon Street, Boston Massachusetts
02114
Case No. 07e0072
DAVID E. ROBINSON, et al, pro se______________________ Plaintiff v. CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, et al______ Defendants
Exhibit XX When The Breach Is Repaired
1. Many Christian Scientists have never heard of the Litigation of 1919-1921,
since it took place almost 90 years ago. Nevertheless, there is no statute of Limitations
applicable to the removal of an erroneous condition. And the time for doers has come.
2.
The ecclesiastical Mother Church in Boston, as a Mother church, should have been
dissolved no later than mid 1912 with the passing of Directors Stephen A. Chase,
and The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., with its Board of 4
directing Trustees, should have then continued under its Deed of Trust of September
1, 1892. The estoppel clause in Art. 1, Sec. 5, page 26 of the Manual prevented the
filling of the vacancy on the passing of the fifth director.
3. The last link
between the Mother Church and the branch churches was dropped following the Annual
Meeting in 1906, when the extension was dedicated and no further meetings of the
Mother Church and branches were held.
4. No other than its officers are required
to be present at the Annual Meetings, Man. Art. 13, page 56, "for listening
to the reports of Treasurer, Clerk, and Committees, and general reports from the
Field."
5. The branches are branches of The First Church of Christ, Scientist,
which is a spiritual association eternally represented as the congregation. Thus
the presence or absence of the Mother Church has no effect on the branches. They
can continue as long as they are deemed necessary, "in consonance" (harmony)
with the church Manual of the congregation of the branches, to provide a service
to the community in which they are located.
6. "If the Pastor Emeritus,
Mrs. Eddy, should relinquish her place as the head of Leader of the Mother Church
of Christ, Scientist, each branch church (congregation) shall continue its present
form of government in consonance with the Mother Church Manual." (Man. page
72).
7. After Mrs. Eddy's passing, an estoppel clause prevents the annual
election of Lecturers without the approval of the pastor Emeritus being obtained.
When the centralized organization is dissolved, Christian Science censorship of lectures
will no longer occur and there will be an immediate resurgence of spiritual growth
in the Field.
8. Another estoppel prevents the election of Teachers to the
Board of Education without the approval of the Pastor Emeritus. (Man. p.88).
9.
There is no Department of Branches and Practitioners in the Church Manual. The land
Deeds of Trust do not extend to such a department, since the board established by
those 2 deeds is fiduciary in nature and its duties are confined to housekeeping
functions. This matter of official teachers, practitioners, and personal teaching
disappears or should have disappeared after the passing of Mrs. Eddy, since the election
of a teacher to the Board of Education is prohibited by the estoppel clause therein.
10.
The Christian Science Publishing Society has its own Deed of Trust, dated January
25, 1898, which was recognized by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in
its decision on November 23, 1921. That Deed is complete in and of itself.
11.
All portions of the Church Manual which concern the Publishing Society become inoperative
with the passing of Mrs. Eddy, through the estoppels which appear elsewhere concerning
the Directors. (See Article 25, pp.79-82, and Article 8, Sec, 14, p.44).
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