Eighty-Ninth edition
Manual of The Mother Church
The First Church of Christ
Scientist
In Boston, Massachusetts
Discoverer and founder of Christian Science
And author of Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures
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
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 ancientSanhedrim. They were not arbitrary opinions nor dictatorial demands,such as one person might impose on another. They were impelled bya power not one's own, were written at different dates, and asthe occasion required. They sprang from necessity, the logic ofevents,—from the immediate demand for them as a help that mustbe supplied to maintain the dignity and defense of our Cause;hence their simple, scientific basis, and detail so requisite todemonstrate genuine Christian Science, and which will do for therace what absolute doctrines destined for future generations mightnot accomplish.
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 asour sufficient guide to eternal Life.
2. We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. Weacknowledge 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 sinand the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. Butthe belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.
4. We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evidence of divine,efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity with God through Christ Jesusthe Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ,through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophetin healing the sick and overcoming sin and death.
5. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrectionserved to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allnessof Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter.
6. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be inus which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would havethem do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.
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