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

"The Church Manual of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston Mass., written by Mary Baker Eddy...is adapted to The Mother Church only..." -- Article 35, Section 1, page 104.

These are the duties the five member TEMPORARY Board of The Mother Church could NOT perform on their own without Mrs. Eddy's consent:

1. ...elect the President of the Mother Church

2. ...elect the Clerk and Treasurer of this Church (also...the editors and the manager of The Christian Science Publishing Society, and the Manager of the general Committee on Publication in Boston)

3. ...elect Readers .in the Mother Church.

4. "fill a vacancy occurring on that Board." (the Board of Directors of The Mother Church)

5. ...form Trusteeships or Syndicates

6. ...remove an .inadequate or unworthy...Reader in The Mother Church.

7. ...allow the .First Reader of the Mother Church to occupy, during his term of Readership, the house of the Pastor Emeritus, No. 385 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston...."

8. ...elect .the individuals who take charge of the Reading Room of The Mother Church. (the Librarian)

9. ...appoint the "Committee on Finance"

10. ...make "Donations from this Church"

11. ...sanction "important movements of the Committee on Publication"

12. "elect a Committee on Business...of the Mother Church"

13. ...fill a vacancy in the Trusteeship of the Christian Science Publishing Society by appointment

14. ...elect "the editors and manager of The Christian Science Publishing Society"

15. ...accept an employee of the Christian Science Publishing Society

16. ...elect "the vice-presiden" or "the teacher" of the Board of Education of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College

17. ...fill a vacancy "should the President [of the Board of Education] resign over her own signature or vacate her office of President of the Massachusetts Metaphysical College"

18. ...elect the Members of the Board of Lectureship

19. ...elect the Committee on Publication of the Mother Church

20. ...appoint an assistant to the manager of the general Committee on Publication

21. ...revise "The Church Manual of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass."

22. ...adopt nor annul any "new Tenet or By-Law..."


These are the duties the five member TEMPORARY Board of The Mother Church could perform on their own:

1. "provide a suitable building for the publication of the...Christian Science literature published by The Christian Science Publishing Society"

2. "watch and make sure that the officers of this Church perform the functions of their several offices promptly and
well"

3. ...receive or reject "applicants for membership in this Church"

4. ...grant or withhold permission for public debating on Christian Science

5. "discipline, place on probation, remove from membership, or to excommunicate members of The Mother Church"

6. "declare vacancies in the trusteeship" of the Christian Science Publishing Society, but not "fill the same" without
Mrs. Eddy's approval.

7. ...remove cards "from our periodicals" by a majority vote

8. "notify any Church of Christ, Scientist, to remove its Committee on Publication and to appoint another Committee to fill the vacancy."


These are the forever duties of the four member PERPETUAL Board of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. free of Mrs. Eddy's involvement or control

1. "fill...by election...within thirty days...a vacancy...in said Board...with anyone who is in the opinion of the remaining members of the Board a firm and consistent believer in the doctrines of Christian Science as taught in a book entitled "SCIENCE AND HEALTH," by Mary Baker G. Eddy beginning with the seventy-first edition thereof"

2. "build or cause to be built...a suitable and convenient church edifice"

3. "maintain public worship in accordance with the doctrines of Christian Science in said church, and... make any and all necessary rules and regulations...for this purpose"

4. "not 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"

5. "not allow or permit in said church building any preaching or other religious services which shall not be consonant and in strict harmony with the doctrines and practice of Christian Science as taught and explained by Mary Baker G. Eddy in the seventy first edition of her book entitled "SCIENCE AND HEALTH"...and in any subsequent edition thereof"

6. "not sell or mortgage the land hereby conveyed [by the Deeds of Trust of the Church]; but they shall see that all taxes and legal assessments on said property are promptly paid"

7. ...not allow the removal "from said lot except for the purpose of rebuilding thereon a more expensive or a more convenient structure in which said doctrines of Christian Science only shall be preached and practised,. and see to it that "if said church building is removed for either of the purposes above set forth, any and all tablets and inscriptions which are or shall be upon said church building at the time of removal shall be removed therefrom and placed upon the walls of the new edifice. If said building is burned, the Directors shall forthwith proceed to rebuild the church"

8. "maintain regular preaching, reading or speaking in said church on each Sabbath, and an ommission to have and maintain such preaching, reading or speaking for one year in succession shall be deemed a breach of this condition"

9. "reconvey forthwith said lot of land with the building thereon to Mary Baker G. Eddy, her heirs and assigns forever by a proper deed of conveyance ...whenever said Directors shall determine that it is inexpedient to maintain
preaching reading or speaking in said church in accordance with the terms of [the 1892] deed.

CONCLUSIONS

No officer of The Mother Church can exist without Mrs. Eddy.s approval and consent.

The centralized organization of "The Mother Church" was to dissolve, leaving remaining "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts," as the unique detached Branch of the Society of Christ, Scientist -- there being no estoppel restrictions to the forming of Branch Christian Science Societies.

The distinction between practitioners, teachers, students, committees on publication, lecturers, and readers having been dissolved; for we are all One in Christ. All adherents to the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy are of one Class.

The self perpetuating four Grantees of the Deeds of Trust of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, have been authorized to "make any and all necessary rules and regulations...for the purpose...of maintaining public worship in accordance with the doctrines of Christian Science in said church" whereas the five temporary Directors of The Mother Church could not, without Mrs. Eddy's consent.