Manual of the Mother Church - The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts
Eddy, Mary Baker, 1821-1910
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, Mass._
1. As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as
our sufficient guide to eternal Life.
2. We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We
acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter;
and man in God's image and likeness.
3. We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin
and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But
the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.
4. We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evidence of divine,
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