demonstrating the rules of
divine Love.

Forbidden Membership. SECTION 17. A member of The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., shall not be a member of any
church whose Readers are not Christian Scientists and members of
The Mother Church.

Officious Members. SECTION 18. A member of The Mother Church is not
entitled to hold office or read in branch churches of this
denomination except by invitation.

Legal Titles. SECTION 19. Students of Christian Science must drop the
titles of Reverend and Doctor, except those who have received these
titles under the _laws_ of the _State_.

Illegal Adoption. SECTION 20. No person shall be a member of this
Church who claims a spiritually adopted child or a spiritually
adopted husband or wife. There must be legal adoption and legal
marriage, which can be verified according to the laws of our land.

Use of Initials "C.S." SECTION 21. A member of The Mother Church
shall not place the initials "C.S." after his name on circulars,
cards, or leaflets, which advertise his business or profession,
except as a Christian Science practitioner.

Practitioners and Patients. SECTION 22. Members of this Church shall
hold in sacred confidence all private communications made to them by
their patients; also such information as may come to them by reason
of their relation of practitioner to patient. A failure to do this
shall subject the offender to Church discipline.

A member of The Mother Church shall not, under pardonable
circumstances, sue his patient for recovery of payment for said
member's practice, on penalty of discipline and liability to have
his name removed from membership. Also he shall reasonably reduce
his price in chronic cases of recovery, and in cases where he has
not effected a cure. A Christian Scientist is a humanitarian; he
is benevolent, forgiving, long-suffering, and seeks to overcome
evil with good.

Duty to Patients. SECTION 23. If a member of this Church has a
patient whom he does not heal, and whose case he cannot fully
diagnose, he may consult with an M. D. on the anatomy involved. And
it shall be the privilege of a Christian Scientist to confer with
an M. D. on Ontology, or the Science of being.

Testimonials. SECTION 24. "Glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God's" (St. Paul). Testimony in regard to the
healing of the sick is highly important. More than a mere rehearsal
of blessings, it scales the pinnacle of praise and illust