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Title: Manual of the Mother Church
The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts

Author: Mary Baker Eddy

Release Date: March 23, 2006 [EBook #18039]

Language: English

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Eighty-Ninth edition

Manual of The Mother Church

The First Church of Christ

Scientist

In Boston, Massachusetts

BY

MARY BAKER EDDY

Discoverer and founder of Christian Science
And author of Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures

PUBLISHED BY THE
TRUSTEES UNDER THE WILL OF MARY BAKER G. EDDY

BOSTON, U.S.A.

Authorized literature of
The first Church of Christ, Scientist
In Boston, Massachusetts

COPYRIGHT, 1895
_By_ CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Copyright renewed, 1923

COPYRIGHT 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1901
_By_ JAMES A. NEAL _and_ THOMAS W. HATTEN
Copyright renewed, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929

COPYRIGHT, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1908
_By_ MARY BAKER G. EDDY
Copyright renewed, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1936

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

EXTRACT FROM A LETTER IN "MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS"

_By Mary Baker Eddy_

The Rules and By-laws in the Manual of The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, Boston, originated not in solemn conclave as in ancient
Sanhedrim. They were not arbitrary opinions nor dictatorial demands,
such as one person might impose on another. They were impelled by
a power not one's own, were written at different dates, and as
the occasion required. They sprang from necessity, the logic of
events,--from the immediate demand for them as a help that must
be supplied to maintain the dignity and defense of our Cause;
hence their simple, scientific basis, and detail so requisite to
demonstrate genuine Christian Science, and which will do for the
race what absolute doctrines destined for future generations might
not accomplish.

TENETS

_of The Mother Church_

_The First Church of Christ, Scientist_

_To be signed by those uniting with The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, in Boston,