CHAPTER IX

We may now make a final footing-up of Mrs. Eddy, and see what she is, in

the fulness of her powers. She is:

The Massachusetts Metaphysical College Pastor Emeritus; President; Board

of Directors; Board of Education; Board of Lectureships; Future Board of

Trustees, Proprietor of the Publishing-House and Periodicals; Treasurer;

Clerk; Proprietor of the Teachers; Proprietor of the Lecturers;

Proprietor of the Missionaries; Proprietor of the Readers; Dictator of

the Services; sole Voice of the Pulpit; Proprietor of the Sanhedrin;

Sole Proprietor of the Creed. (Copyrighted.); Indisputable Autocrat

of the Branch Churches, with their life and death in her hands; Sole

Thinker for The First Church (and the others); Sole and Infallible

Expounder of Doctrine, in life and in death; Sole permissible

Discoverer, Denouncer, Judge, and Executioner of Ostensible Hypnotists;

Fifty-handed God of Excommunication--with a thunderbolt in every hand;

Appointer and Installer of the Pastor of all the Churches--the Perpetual

Pastor-Universal, Science and Health, “the Comforter.”

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