Manual of The Mother Church

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

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Eighty-Ninth Edition
Manual of The Mother Church
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts

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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,