a well qualified teacher shall be given to each Normal class on the
subject of mental practice and _malpractice_. One student in the
class shall prepare a paper on said subject that shall be read to
the class, thoroughly discussed, and understood; this paper shall be
given to the teacher, and he shall not allow it or a copy of it to
remain, but shall destroy this paper.
Signatures. SECTION 3. The signature of the teacher and of the
President of the College shall be on all certificates issued.
Remuneration and Free Scholarship. SECTION 4. Tuition of class
instruction in the Board of Education shall be $100.00. The bearer of
a card of free scholarship from the President, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy,
shall be entitled to a free course in this department on presentation
of the card to the teacher. Only the President gives free admission
to classes.
Surplus Funds. SECTION 5. Any surplus funds left in the hands of the
Board of Education shall be paid over annually to the Treasurer of
The Mother Church.
Primary Students. SECTION 6. Students of Christian Science, duly
instructed therein and with good moral records, not having the
certificate of C.S.D. may enter the Normal class in the Board of
Education, which will be held once in three years beginning A. D.
1907; provided their diplomas are for three _consecutive_ years
under Mrs. Eddy's daily conversation on Christian Science, or from
the Massachusetts Meta-physical College Board of Education.
Healing Better than Teaching. SECTION 7. Healing the sick and the
sinner with Truth demonstrates what we affirm of Christian Science,
and nothing can substitute this demonstration. I recommend that each
member of this Church shall strive to demonstrate by his or her
practice, that Christian Science heals the sick quickly and wholly,
thus proving this Science to be all that we claim for it.
If both husband and wife are found duly qualified to teach Christian
Science, either one, not both, should teach yearly one class.
Not Members of The Mother Church. SECTION 8. No person shall receive
instructions in Christian Science in any class in the Massachusetts
Metaphysical College, nor receive the degree of C.S.B. or C.S.D., who
is not a member of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,
Mass.
Only those persons who are members of this Church and possessed
of the qualifications named in Sect. 9 of Article XXVI of these
By-Laws shall be deemed loyal teachers of Christian Science.
BOARD OF LECTURESHIP
Article XXXI--ORGANIZATION AND DUTIES
Election. SECTION 1. This Church shall maintain a Board of
Lectureship, the members of which shall be elected annually on Monday
preceding the Annual Meeting, subject to the approval of the Pastor
Emeritus. The lecture year shall begin July 1 of each year.
Duty of Lecturers. SECTION 2. It is the duty of the Board of
Lectureship to include in each lecture a true and just reply to
public topics condemning Christian Science, and to bear testimony to
the facts pertaining to the life of the Pastor Emeritus. Each member
shall mail to the Clerk of this Church copies of his lectures before
delivering them.
No Disruption of Branch Churches. SECTION 3. The Board of Lectureship
is not allowed in anywise to meddle with nor to disrupt the
organization of branch churches. The lecturer can invite churches
within the city whither he is called to unite in their attendance on
his lecture, and so make for their churches a less lecture fee; but
the churches shall decide their action.
Receptions. SECTION 4. As a rule there should be no receptions nor
festivities after a lecture on Christian Science, but there may occur
exceptions. If there be an individual who goes to hear and deride
truth, he should go away contemplating truth; and he who goes to seek
truth should have the opportunity to depart in quiet _thought_ on
that subject.
Circuit Lecturer. SECTION 5. Upon the written request of Mrs. Eddy,
The Mother Church shall appoint a Circuit Lecturer. His term of
office, if approved, shall not be less than three years. He shall
lecture in the United States, in Canada, in Great Britain and
Ireland.
A member shall neither resign nor transfer this sacred office.
Article XXXII--CALLS FOR LECTURES
The Directors. SECTION 1. When the need is apparent, the Christian
Science Board of Directors of The Mother Church may call on any
member of this Board of Lectureship to lecture at such places and
at such times as the cause of Christian Science demands.
From Branch Churches. SECTION 2. The branch Churches of Christ,
Scientist, may apply through their clerks to a member of this Board
of Lectureship for a speaker, and one shall be assigned them by the
Board.
From Societies. SECTION 3. If called for, a member of the Board may
lecture for a Society.
Annual Lectures. SECTION 4. The Mother Church and the branch churches
shall call on the Board of Lectureship annually for one or more
lectures.
No Lectures by Readers. SECTION 5. No lecture shall be given by a
Reader during his term of Readership. The duties alone of a Reader
are ample.
No Wednesday Evening Lectures. SECTION 6. The Board of Lectureship
shall not appoint a lecture for Wednesday evening.
Lecture Fee. SECTION 7. The lecture fee shall be left to the
discretion of the lecturer.
Expenses. SECTION 8. The lecturer's traveling expenses and the cost
of hall shall be paid by the church that employs him.
Exceptional Cases. SECTION 9. If a lecturer receive a call to lecture
in a place where he sees there is special need, and the local church
is unable to meet the expense, he is at liberty to supply that need
and trust to contributions for his fee.
COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION
Article XXXIII
In The Mother Church. SECTION 1. There shall be appointed by The
Mother Church a Committee on Publication, which shall consist of
one loyal Christian Scientist who lives in Boston, and he shall
be manager of the Committees on Publication throughout the United
States, Canada, Great Britain and Ireland. He shall be elected
annually by a unanimous vote of the Christian Science Board of
Directors and the consent of the Pastor Emeritus given in her own
handwriting, and shall receive an annual salary, paid quarterly,
of not less than four thousand dollars.
Duties. SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the Committee on
Publication to correct in a Christian manner impositions on the
public in regard to Christian Science, injustices done Mrs. Eddy
or members of this Church by the daily press, by periodicals or
circulated literature of any sort. This Committee on Publication
shall be responsible for correcting or having corrected a false
newspaper article which has not been replied to by other Scientists,
or which has been forwarded to this Committee for the purpose of
having him reply to it. If the correction by the Committee on
Publication is not promptly published by the periodical in which it
is desirable that this correction shall appear, this Committee shall
immediately apply for aid to the Committee on Business. Furthermore,
the Committee on Publication shall read the _last proof sheet_ of
such an article and see that it is published according to copy; he
shall circulate in large quantities the papers containing such an
article, sending a copy to the Clerk of the Church. It shall also be
the duty of the Committee on Publication to have published each year
in a leading Boston newspaper the letter sent to the Pastor Emeritus
by the Church members in annual meeting assembled. The State
Committees on Publication act under the direction of this Committee
on Publication.
In Branch Churches. SECTION 3. The Readers of the three largest
branch churches in each State of the United States and in Canada
shall annually and alternately appoint a Committee on Publication to
serve in their localities. For the purposes of this By-Law, the State
of California shall be considered as though it were two States, the
dividing line being the 36th parallel of latitude. Each county of
Great Britain and Ireland, except as hereinafter specified, through
the Readers of its three largest branch churches, shall annually
and alternately appoint a Committee on Publication to serve in
its locality. Each church is not necessarily confined to its own
members in selecting this Committee, but if preferred, can appoint
a Committee on Publication who is in good fellowship with another
Church of Christ, Scientist.
This By-Law applies to all States except Massachusetts, in which the
Committee on Publication is elected only by the Christian Science
Board of Directors. The Committee for the counties in which London,
England, is situated shall be appointed by the Christian Science
Board of Directors, and he shall, in addition to his other duties,
act as District Manager of the Committees on Publication for Great
Britain and Ireland.
Appointment. SECTION 4. The Committees on Publication shall consist
of men generally. Each State Committee shall be appointed by the
First and Second Readers of the church employing said Committee.
If prior to the meeting of the church for the election of officers,
Mrs. Eddy shall send to the First Reader of the church the name of
a candidate for its Committee on Publication, the Readers shall
appoint said candidate. Or if she shall send a special request to any
Committee on Publication, the request shall be carried out according
to her directions.
Removal from Office. SECTION 5. If the Committee on Publication
neglects to fulfil the obligations of his office according to these
By-Laws, and this becomes apparent to the Christian Science Board
of Directors, it shall be the duty of the Directors immediately to
act upon this important matter in accordance with said By-Laws.
The Christian Science Board of Directors may notify any Church of
Christ, Scientist, to remove its Committee on Publication and to
appoint another Committee to fill the vacancy; and it shall be the
duty of that church to comply with this request. In such cases it
shall be the privilege of this Board to name the Committee if it so
desires, and any Committee so named by the Board shall be elected by
the branch church.
Case of Necessity. SECTION 6. If a suitable man is not obtainable for
Committee on Publication, a suitable woman shall be elected. If at
any time the Christian Science Board of Directors shall determine
that the manager of the general Committee on Publication needs an
assistant, the Board shall, with the approval of the Pastor Emeritus,
appoint an assistant manager, who shall receive an adequate salary
from The Mother Church.
CHURCH-BUILDING
Article XXXIV
Building Committee. SECTION 1. There shall be a Building Committee
consisting of not less than three members, and this committee shall
not be dissolved until the new church edifice is completed. This
committee shall elect, dismiss, or supply a vacancy of its members
by a majority vote.
Designation of Deeds. SECTION 2. All deeds of further purchases of
land for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.,
shall have named in them all the trusts mentioned in the deeds given
by Albert Metcalf and E. Noyes Whitcomb in March, 1903; but this rule
shall not apply to land purchased for any purpose other than the
erection of a church edifice. Also there shall be incorporated in all
such deeds the phrase, "Mary Baker Eddy's Church, The Mother Church
or The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass."
The Mother Church Building. SECTION 3. The edifice erected in 1894
for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., shall
neither be demolished, nor removed from the site where it was built,
without the written consent of the Pastor Emeritus, Mary Baker Eddy.
CHURCH MANUAL
Article XXXV
For The Mother Church Only. SECTION 1. The Church Manual of The First
Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., written by Mary Baker
Eddy and copyrighted, is adapted to The Mother Church only. It stands
alone, uniquely adapted to form the budding thought and hedge it
about with divine Love. This Manual shall not be revised without the
written consent of its author.
Seventy-third Edition the Authority. SECTION 2. The Board of
Directors, the Committee on Bible Lessons, and the Board of Trustees
shall each keep a copy of the Seventy-third Edition and of subsequent
editions of the Church Manual; and if a discrepancy appears in any
revised edition, these editions shall be cited as authority.
Amendment of By-Laws. SECTION 3. No new Tenet or By-Law shall be
adopted, nor any Tenet or By-Law amended or annulled, without the
written consent of Mary Baker Eddy, the author of our textbook,
SCIENCE AND HEALTH.
Appendix
Special Instructions Regarding Applications for Church Membership
1. Loyal members of The Mother Church are eligible to approve
candidates to unite with this Church.
2. No persons are eligible to countersign applications except
loyal students of Mrs. Eddy, Directors, and students of the Board
of Education who have been given a degree, and are members of The
Mother Church.
3. Those who approve applicants should have applications returned
to them after being filled out by the applicants, as required by
Article V, Sect. 6, and should compare them with the forms here
given, and see that names are legibly written, before sending
them to the Clerk of the Church. If not correct, the applicant
will be notified, and new applications will be required, as
none will be returned that are not correctly made out. This
requirement is to prevent applications being duplicated and the
confusion that might result therefrom. It is important that these
seemingly strict conditions be exactly complied with, as the
names of the members of The Mother Church will be recorded in the
history of the Church and become a part thereof.
4. All names, whether of applicants, signers, or countersigners,
must be plainly written, and one, at least, of the given names of
each, written in full. Initials only of first names will not be
received. Women must sign Miss or Mrs. before their names as the
case may be.
All names must be written the same in all places where they are
required.
TO APPLICANTS
1. In filling out the application blank, one of the Christian
names must be written in full. Initials alone will not be
received.
2. If the applicant is a married woman she must sign her own
Christian name, not her husband's, and prefix her signature with
"Mrs;" unmarried women must sign "Miss."
3. There are two regular forms of application. 1. For those who
have studied Christian Science with an authorized teacher; 2. For
those who have not studied Christian Science with a teacher.
Applicants will find the chief points of these instructions
illustrated in Form 1 and Form 2, on pages 114 and 118.
4. Those whose teachers are deceased, absent, or disloyal, or
those whose teachers refuse, without sufficient cause, to sign
applications (see Art. V, Sect. 4), will be furnished special
forms on application to the Clerk.
5. When branch churches are designated by number, as First Church,
Second Church, etc., the number must be written First, Second,
as shown on page 118. The article "the" either capitalized (The),
or small (the), must not be used before titles of branch churches.
See Article XXIII, Sect. 2.
6. If the applicant is not a member of a branch church, he should
fill out his application in this respect according to the form on
page 114.
APPLICATION FORMS
Application I
PROPERLY SIGNED AND ENDORSED,
ACCORDING TO ARTICLE V, SECT. 2
If you have been taught by a loyal student who has taken a degree at
the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, or by one who has passed an
examination by the Board of Education, fill this blank.
FORM 1
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., is
designed to be built on the rock of Christ--Truth and Life--and to
reflect the Church Triumphant.
One who is not a member of any church, excepting a branch church
of Christ, Scientist, who loves Christian Science, and reads
understandingly the Bible, and SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE
SCRIPTURES, by Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, and other works by this
author, and who is Christianly qualified and can enter into full
fellowship with the Tenets and Rules of The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, in Boston, Mass., is eligible to membership.
_To The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass._
Gordon V. Comer Clerk.
I hereby make application for membership, and subscribe to the
Tenets and the By-Laws of the Church.
My teacher in Christian Science is
...............James B. Brown, C.S.D. ..................
I am not a member of any church.
FORM 1--(Continued)
I was formerly a member of the .............................
............ denomination, but have definitely severed my
connection therewith.
Name .............. Mrs. Jennie W. Field, C.S. ..........
Street and Number ....... 18 Forest St., ................
Town or City ................ Chicago, ..................
State ............................ Ill ..................
Date ................. Jan. 2nd, 1901 ...................
I cordially approve the applicant.
(a) ............... James B. Brown, C.S.D. ...............
Countersigned by ..........................................
DO NOT DETACH.
To the applicant: Name ...... Mrs. Jennie W. Field, C.S. ......
Please fill out the Street and Number ... 18 Forest St., ........
following for the use Town or City ............ Chicago, ..........
of the Treasurer of State ............................ Ill ......
the Church:
Application I
PROPERLY SIGNED AND ENDORSED,
ACCORDING TO ARTICLE V, SECT. 2
If you have been taught by a loyal student who has taken a degree at
the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, or by one who has passed an
examination by the Board of Education, fill this blank.
FORM 1
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., is
designed to be built on the rock of Christ--Truth and Life--and to
reflect the Church Triumphant.
One who is not a member of any church, excepting a branch church
of Christ, Scientist, who loves Christian Science, and reads
understandingly the Bible, and SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE
SCRIPTURES, by Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, and other works by this
author, and who is Christianly qualified and can enter into full
fellowship with the Tenets and Rules of The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, in Boston, Mass., is eligible to membership.
_To The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass._
Gordon V. Comer Clerk.
I hereby make application for membership, and subscribe to the
Tenets and the By-Laws of the Church.
My teacher in Christian Science is
...............James B. Brown, C.S.D. ..................
I am not a member of any church, excepting Church of Christ,
Scientist, at ........................
FORM 1--(Continued)
I was formerly a member of the .............................
............ denomination, but have definitely severed my
connection therewith.
Name .............. Mrs. Jennie W. Field, C.S. ..........
Street and Number ....... 18 Forest St., ................
Town or City ................ Chicago, ..................
State ............................ Ill ..................
Date ................. Jan. 2nd, 1901 ...................
I cordially approve the applicant.
(a) ............... James B. Brown, C.S.D. ...............
Countersigned by ..........................................
DO NOT DETACH.
To the applicant: Name ...... Mrs. Jennie W. Field, C.S. ......
Please fill out the Street and Number ... 18 Forest St., ........
following for the use Town or City ............ Chicago, ..........
of the Treasurer of State ............................ Ill ......
the Church:
Application II
SIGNED, ENDORSED, AND COUNTERSIGNED,
ACCORDING TO ARTICLE VI, SECT. 2
If you have not been taught by a loyal student who has taken a degree at
the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, or by one who has passed an
examination by the Board of Education, fill this blank.
FORM 2
One who is not a member of any church, excepting a branch church
of Christ, Scientist, who loves Christian Science, and reads
understandingly the Bible, and SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE
SCRIPTURES, by Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, and other works by this
author, and who is Christianly qualified and can enter into full
fellowship with the Tenets and Rules of The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, in Boston, Mass., is eligible to membership.
_To The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass._
Gordon V. Comer Clerk.
I hereby make application for membership, and subscribe to the
Tenets and the By-Laws of the Church. I have not studied Christian
Science with a teacher, and am not a member of any church excepting
_Second_ Church of Christ, Scientist, at _New York, N.Y._
I was formerly a member of the .............................
............ denomination, but have definitely severed my
connection therewith.
FORM 2--(Continued)
Name .............. Miss Emma L. French .................
Street and Number ...... 293 Emerson St., ...............
Town or City ................ New York ..................
State ............................ N.Y. .................
Date ................. Jan. 2nd, 1901 ...................
I cordially approve the applicant.
(a) ............. Miss Mary E. Grant, C.S. ...............
Countersigned by .... James B. Brown, C.S.D. .............
DO NOT DETACH.
To the applicant: Name ....... Miss Emma L. French .......
Please fill out the Street and Number .. 293 Emerson St. ...
following for the use Town or City ............ New York .....
of the Treasurer of State ......................... N.Y. ...
the Church:
Present Order of Services in The Mother Church and Branch Churches
_Republished from the_ Sentinel
SUNDAY SERVICES
1. Hymn.
2. Reading a Scriptural Selection.
3. Silent Prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's
Prayer with its spiritual interpretation.
4. Hymn.
5. Announcing necessary notices.
6. Solo.
7. Reading the explanatory note on first leaf of _Quarterly_.
8. Announcing the subject of the Lesson Sermon, and reading the
Golden Text.
9. Reading the Scriptural selection, entitled "Responsive Reading,"
alternately by the First Reader and the congregation.
10. Reading the Lesson-Sermon. (After the Second Reader reads the
BIBLE references of the first Section of the Lesson, the First Reader
makes the following announcement: "As announced in the explanatory
note, I shall now read correlative passages from the Christian
Science textbook, SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES,
by Mary Baker Eddy.")
11. Collection.
12. Hymn.
13. Reading the scientific statement of being, and the correlative
SCRIPTURE according to I John 3:1-3.
14. Pronouncing Benediction.
The services should be preceded and followed by organ or piano music
of an appropriate character in all cases where this is possible.
On the first Sunday of each month Article VIII, SECT. 1, _A Rule for
Motives and Acts_, is to be read.
WEDNESDAY MEETINGS
1. Hymn.
2. Reading from the BIBLE, and correlative passages from SCIENCE AND
HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES.
3. Silent Prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's
Prayer, its spiritual interpretation being omitted.
4. Hymn.
5. Announcing necessary notices.
6. Experiences, testimonies, and remarks on Christian Science.
7. Closing Hymn.
The services should be preceded and followed by organ or piano music
of an appropriate character in all cases where this is possible.
Thanksgiving Day.
Order of Service for The Mother Church and Branch Churches.
1. Hymn.
2. Reading the Thanksgiving Proclamation of the President of the
United States, or the Governor of the state, or both.
3. Reading a Scriptural Selection.
4. Silent Prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's
Prayer with its spiritual interpretation.
5. Hymn.
6. Reading the Explanatory Note on the first leaf of the _Quarterly_.
7. Announcing the subject of the Lesson Sermon, and reading the
Golden Text.