DAVID E. ROBINSON, et al, pro se______________________
Plaintiff
v.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, et al______
Defendants

"Take heed...unto yourselves.... For...after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock ...of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them." -- Acts 20:28-30.

1. This is what happened after the departure of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.

2. While Mrs. Eddy was with us, her five-member ecclesiastical Board of Directors asked her to change or remove the by-law in the church Manual on page 26 (Article 1, Section 5) that required her approval -- as the Pastor Emeritus of her Church -- of "that Board" (Ibid, line 21); but she refused.

3. Lacking her approval, that Board and the Mother Church were to dissolve at Mrs. Eddy passing. In effect, she had refused to appoint them to be her successor. Her four-member fiduciary Board had been given control of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and its real estate, as a stipulation of the use of the land it occupied.

4. This report calls on students of Christian Science to choose between obeying an officious board who claims to be Mrs. Eddy's successor, as they have claimed since 1910, or obeying the church Manual that our Leader authorized and wrote.

5. Mary Baker Eddy brought us the Second Coming of the Christ.

6. The great need of the hour is to see Mrs. Eddy in her rightful place in world consciousness. This will again .reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing. (Manual, p.17, line 12), as it was presented by Jesus Christ.

7. Mrs. Eddy said, in a letter to Judge Septimus J. Hanna, "The truth about your Leader heals the sick and restores harmony."

8. Only as the world acknowledges her, as it now acknowledges Jesus, who said that "greater works" than his would be done (John 14:12), will quick and certain Christian healing be restored in these "latter days."

9. When the world acknowledges Mrs. Eddy again, as it did before she left us in 1910, the healing power that prevailed in her time -- and for a few decades after she left, on the momentum she built up -- will be revived.

A MATERIAL CHURCH ORGANIZATION

10. After discovering Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy and six of her students organized the first Christian Scientist Association on the fourth of July, 1876, the centennial anniversary of our Nation's Declaration of Independence (Ret. 43:21-23), and three years later, at a meeting on April 19, 1879, they voted to organize a church without creed, to be called the "Church of Christ, Scientist" (Ibid, 23-5 n.p.). Its Charter was obtained in June of that year (Man. 18, lines 3,4).

11. This Christian Science Church exercised no centralized control over other Christian Science Churches, nor Christian Scientists. And when the time came for the Church to go forward in spiritual association alone, Mrs. Eddy dissolved its material organization, in 1889, after ten years of more or less chaos due to inter-organizational strife.

A SECOND CHURCH ORGANIZATION

"Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is above rubies. She considereth a field and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard." -- Prov. 31:10, 16.

12. Three years after Mrs. Eddy dissolved the material organization of her church -- after three years of great prosperity and progress while dissolved and to accommodate her students desire for a fixed place of worship -- Mrs. Eddy conveyed, by legal Deed of Trust, a transfer of land "for Church Edifice" (Man. 128) to four Trustees "to be known as the Christian Science board of Directors...a perpetual body or corporation." (Ibid, Man. 130).

13. .This deed of conveyance [was] made upon the following express trusts and conditions. (restrictive
covenants), one of which stipulated that "Said Board shall within five years...build upon said lot of land...a suitable and convenient church edifice" (covenant #2). A further restrictive covenant required that "said Board...shall maintain public worship...in said church, and...make any and all necessary rules and regulations...for this purpose" (covenant #3).

14. These restrictive covenants had to be strictly obeyed as the conditions of the congregation.s use of the land on which the church edifice was to be built.

15. A further restrictive covenant stipulated that "Said Board shall not suffer or allow any building to be erected upon said lot except a church building or edifice, nor shall they allow said church building or any part thereof to be used for any other purpose than for the ordinary and usual uses of a church" (covenant #4).

16. To permanently attach the church edifice to the lawfully restricted use of the land, another restrictive covenant required that "Said church building shall not be removed from said lot except for the purpose of rebuilding thereon a more expensive or a more convenient structure..." (Covenant #8).

17. Then to permanently attach the church Manual to the lawfully restricted use of the land, and to make it a legal instrument that is seen as law by Law, Mrs. Eddy, in her legal Deeds of 1903-1904 and "In addition to the trusts (covenants) contained in said deed of September 1, 1892," attached "the further trusts (covenants) that no new...by-law shall be adopted, nor any...by-law amended or annulled...unless the written consent of said Mary Baker
G. Eddy, the author of the textbook Science and Health with key to the Scriptures, be given therefore.... to said 1892 Deed of Trust... Conveying land for Church Edifice.... recorded with Suffolk Deeds, Book 2591, page 398..." (Man. 136).

18. Three weeks after the transfer of land by the 1892 real estate Deed of Trust, in acquiescence to the coaxing of her students and to finish the history of her church, Mrs. Eddy reluctantly directed them to once again form an organization, under her guidance and control as a "suffer it to be so now" (Matthew 3:15) temporary association. Her students met on September 23, 1892, and formed the second Church organization and named its congregation, "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts" (Man. 18, line 17 and Man. 132, covenant 6).

19. The fact that Mrs. Eddy did not attend this meeting is highly significant of her feelings about this socalled "progressive" (regressive) move. A mother sometimes lets her children find out things the hard way, when no other way will do.

20. SECTION 1 of Chapter 39 of the Public Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts permitted the four Director/Trustees to be "a perpetual body or corporation" (Man. 130, covenant 1) for the purpose of holding church property and funds, without organizing the Church as a corporation licensed by the State. Hence, the action of her students was merely palliative; they legally organized nothing at all, leaving the Church free from State influence and control.

21. Mrs. Eddy was determined that any semblance of material organization should last only so long as she was personally here with her students to guide them; which she did with a wise and firm hand.

22. Three years later (1895), Mrs. Eddy published the "Church Manual of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts," its actual title as shown on the title page (Man. page 1), and in the box on the frontispiece (Man. page 3), of its first edition, to impersonally direct and govern her Church and its members in her stead.

23. Three years after that (1898), Mrs. Eddy conveyed by legal Deed of Trust, a second transfer of land on which to establish an independent Christian Science Publishing Society "for the purpose of more effectually promoting and extending the religion of Christian Science as taught by me."

24. Five years later, in February of 1903, Mrs. Eddy added a fifth member to the four-man fiduciary Board of Director/Trustees of The First Church of Christ, Scientists, in Boston, Massachusetts, to established a temporary, ecclesiastical Board of Directors for what was then and is now called "The Mother Church," to prepare for its dissolution at her demise.

25. The following month (March, 1903) -- to accommodate the need for an enlarged place of worship for the annual Communion Service which drew many church members from near and far -- Mrs. Eddy conveyed, by legal Deeds of Trust, a transfer of land "for Church Purposes" (Man. 136) to the four Director/Trustees of her Boston Church, on which was to be built a large Extension.

26. Next Mrs. Eddy established a permanent system of Checks and Balances for the government of her Church, by instituting additional by-laws, to bring all of the conditions of The Christian Science Publishing Society, and its real estate Deed of Trust, under her governing Church Manual.

27. The fact that Mrs. Eddy never entered the large Extension to her Church is highly significant of her feelings about this so-called "progressive" (regressive) move. Mrs. Eddy was not even a member of her Church; she refused it as a gift after it was completed in 1894 saying, "I have more of earth than I desire...my work for The Mother Church is done."

RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS DEFINED

28. Restrictive covenants in real estate Deeds of Trust are privately imposed limitations on the use of real property, that are imposed by a landowner and set forth in a legal Deed of Trust (in this instance, the legal Deeds of Trust) or in a separately recorded legal Declaration (in this instance, Mrs. Eddy's church Manual).

29. Such covenants constitute an "appurtenance" to the real property and "run with the land." In other words, the limitations of the restrictive covenants transfer to the new owner or owners with the transfer of the real estate Deed of Trust, that consummates the deal.

30. An "appurtenance" in real estate Law, is a right, privilege, improvement, limitation, or obligation that passes on with the land as an incident to its use; such as a right of way, or an obligation to do something or not do something, or to specifically perform in some way (in this instance, the specific performance of the restrictive covenants in the Deeds of Trust and in the Manual at page 105).

31. Restrictive covenants in real estate Deeds of Trust are enforceable as law by Law.

32. The restrictive covenants were cited in the by-laws of the Manual of the Church, to protect her Revelation from the manipulations of the human mind. The restrictive covenants require that the use of church property be, "on the further trusts that no new tenet or by-law shall be adopted nor any tenet or by-law amended or annulled by the grantees unless the written consent of said Mary Baker Eddy, the author of the textbook SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES be given therefore. (Man. 137 and 105). Mrs. Eddy referred to "the textbook" in the Deeds of Trust, and to "our textbook" in the Manual of the Church.

33. The last by-law in her governing church Manual likewise requires that the by-laws shall not be altered nor annulled without Mrs. Eddy's explicit consent. This covenant in her Manual makes it a legal instrument that is seen "as law by Law." It requires obedience to all of the covenants in the church Manual.

34. Mrs. Eddy insisted on leaving the estoppel covenants in her church Manual even though she was repeatedly asked by her five-member ecclesiastical Board of Directors to modify or remove them, and warned that if she did not, the Church would be crippled at the time of her passing. She firmly insisted that they were "God directed and would stand as is." Mrs. Eddy made them a part of the legal Deeds of Trust.

35. The estoppel covenants in the Manual, terminated the Mother Church and its ecclesiastical Board and other Officials at Mrs. Eddy's passing, leaving remaining, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston Massachusetts, to operate as a unique, "detached branch," since every vital activity of the Mother Church required Mrs. Eddy's written approval or some other type of consent.

36. The intent of the Manual of the Boston Church is to liberate the "Science of Christian Science" from the shackles of organized religion and ecclesiastical monopoly, and so begin to solve for mankind the problem of life seemingly held captive to matter. The real Church, The Church of Christ, Scientist, is a spiritual state of consciousness which everyone will some day attain in witness to the truth.

37. Mrs. Eddy discontinued the Mother Church and its "mothering" activities, at her passing, to prevent the development of an ecclesiastical hierarchy and the idolatry of loyalty to five officious individuals in Boston, rather than to divine Principle, leaving the Boston Church to operate as a unique Branch, detached from the Vine, growing directly from the Root (Rev. 5:5, 22:16).

38. The Theocratic government of Mary Baker Eddy's Mother Church, passed on with her at her departure. The high standard of Theocratic government which she maintained, by obeying God.s prompting, should never have been replaced by a dictatorial regime of five individuals in Boston. Had she intended for this to happen, she would have legally enacted the Mother Church as she did the Publishing Society and the local Boston Church, both of which she established on the firm foundation of legal real estate Deeds of Trust, with conditions of use (restrictive covenants) attached.

39. Material organization and voluntary association are not the same. Both cannot be obeyed, for one absolutely destroys the other, since one or the other becomes, to us, supreme.

THE JUDASIAN BETRAYAL

40. Within weeks of Mrs. Eddy's passing the five-member ecclesiastical Board of Directors put forth a revised church Manual of their own -- the doctored, 89th Manual -- and falsely announced themselves to be Mrs. Eddy's successor, and gradually assumed the papal, kingly position of "the highest ecclesiastical court in the land," in continuing the government of The Mother Church after the Annual Meeting of June, 1911, when this could only be done by breaching the restrictive covenants in the real estate Deeds of Trust and annulling the estoppel covenants in the Manual that required that the by-laws of the church Manual be neither amended or annulled.

41. The Directors' refusal to obey the restrictive covenants in the real estate Deeds of Trust and the estoppel covenants in the Manual of the Church led to a number of lawsuits, the most notorious being The Great Literature Litigation of 1919.

42. The Bill in Equity that the three Publishing Society Trustees filed with the court named the four-member fiduciary Board of Director/Trustees of the Boston Church, not the five-member ecclesiastical Board of The Mother
Church, because "that Board" did not come under the jurisdiction of secular law; therefore the distinction between The Boston Church and The Mother Church was at first hidden from the court.

OBFUSCATION OF THE FIELD

43. The church membership has been misled through skillful propaganda to believe that the five-member ecclesiastical Board of Directors are Mrs. Eddy's Successor, which according to the Manual by-laws they are not.

44. What's more, the ecclesiastical Board of the to be dissolved Mother Church forced the once independent Publishing Society into undeclared bankruptcy by creating a hostile financial embargo of its publications by influencing the Church membership to cancel their subscriptions to the periodicals of the Church.

45. Because of this financial assault, the Publishing Society Trustees lacked the funds needed to carry an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. The Directors of The Mother Church were, however, found guilty of contempt of court, regarding a court order against such an assault, and fined for their contempt of court and their contempt of the Publishing Society Trustees.

46. When Mrs. Eddy drew up her Will, in 1901, only the four-member fiduciary Trustee/Board existed at that time. The five-member ecclesiastical Board was not created until just before the 1903 conveyance of land for the Extension of the Church. The five-member Board.s failure to account for the controlling real estate Deeds of Trust in the Great Litigation make the second and last codicil to her Will conclusive.

47. The Court said,"Every instrument in writing is to be interpreted with a view of the material circumstances of the parties at the time of execution. A trust instrument is to be so constructed as to give the effect to the founder's intent as manifested by the words used, illumined by all attendant factors."

MARY BAKER EDDY'S INTENT

48. The court stated that to understand the founder's "intent" according to law, "all the attendant factors" in the case must be considered by the court, and that "at the time of the execution. of the first of the ten Deeds of Trust in 1903, Mrs. Eddy had explicitly provided for two distinct Christian Science Boards of Directors -- a fiduciary Board and an ecclesiastical Board."

49. Mrs. Eddy intended for the five-member ecclesiastical Board to be temporary, subject to the restrictive covenants of the real estate Deeds of Trust and the covenants in the Manual of the Church.

50. Mrs. Eddy's personal attorney, General Frank Streeter, acting in accord with the "law of agency," opposed the five-member ecclesiastical Board's waiver, abandonment, and avoidance of the estoppel by-laws that Mrs. Eddy had imposed on every church member, including herself, contending that his client (Mrs. Eddy) intended that the estoppel by-laws be expressly obeyed as written.

THE FINDINGS OF THE COURT

51. 1. The Court Ruled on only one point -- that the four-member fiduciary Board of Director/Trustees of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts -- the board that was named in the suit -- could discharge a Trustee of the then self-perpetuating independent Christian Science Publishing Society. The Trustee's suit was therefore dismissed.

52. 2. The Court identified and recognized an ecclesiastical board of five Directors under the Manual, and a fiduciary board of four Directors under the 1892 real estate Deed of Trust.

53. 3. The court never gave the ecclesiastical Directors the right to arbitrarily rule the Christian Science Church as Mrs. Eddy's successor, as they have been doing since 1910.

54. 4. The court, instead, declared its opinion that the estoppel covenants legally control the church Manual (the court was never asked for a ruling on this).

55. The all-important 1903-1904 Deeds of Trust that legally control the Manual have never been taken into account in a court of law. Nor have annulments or breaches of trust ever been considered by the courts!

WHY NO APPEAL?

56. 1. As mentioned, the Trustees of the Christian Science Publishing Society made no appeal to the United States Supreme Court because the Directors of the Mother Church had bankrupted them.

57. 2. ...and the members, not having full disclosure of the facts, acquiesced.

58. 3. What's more, the Directors conspired for the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to intervene on their behalf, in gross violation of the "establishment" clause in the Constitution of the United States.

IN SUMMATION

59. Mary Baker Eddy's intent is to ensure eternal freedom of conscience to her students, in keeping with the Christian Science Magna Charta (Misc. 246,247) and the Christian Science Declaration of Independence (S&H 106:6-10).

60. Mrs. Eddy's forever directive to her Church is that the estoppel covenants in her church Manual are legally binding, and hence must be obeyed.

"The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish." -- Proverbs 14:11.

"The students who truly love me are they who obey carefully my explicit instructions. Such are saved from the toils of the evil one." -- Mary Baker Eddy.