Manual of the Mother Church: The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, MassachusettsEddy, Mary Baker
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Manual of the Mother Church: The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts
Eddy, Mary Baker
Christian Science
Beginning at the junction of Falmouth street, and a forty-foot street
now called Caledonia street; thence running Southwest on said
Falmouth street one hundred and sixteen and eighty-eight hundredths
feet; thence Northwest at a right angle to a point where a line drawn
at right angles to said forty-foot street at a point thereon one
hundred and sixteen and fifty-five hundredths feet Northwest from
the point of beginning meets the said boundary at right angles to
Falmouth street, sixty-six and seventy-eight hundredths feet; thence
at an obtuse angle on said line at right angles to said forty-foot
street sixty-seven and thirty-five hundredths feet to said forty-foot
street; thence Southeasterly on said forty-foot street one hundred
and sixteen and fifty-five hundredths feet to the point of beginning;
containing seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight square
feet more or less, and subject to the agreements and restrictions
mentioned in a deed recorded in Suffolk Registry of Deeds Lib. 1719,
Fol 83 so far as the same are now legally operative.
This deed of conveyance is made upon the following express trusts
and conditions which the said grantees by accepting this deed agree
and covenant for themselves and their successors in office to fully
perform and fulfil.
1. Said grantees shall be known as the "Christian Science Board of
Directors," and shall constitute a perpetual body or corporation
under and in accordance with section one, Chapter 39 of the Public
Statutes of Massachusetts.[5] Whenever a vacancy occurs in said
Board the remaining members shall within thirty days fill the same
by election; but no one shall be eligible to that office who is not
in the opinion of the remaining members of the Board a firm and
consistent believer in the doctrines of Christian Science as taught
in a book entitled "SCIENCE AND HEALTH," by Mary Baker G. Eddy
beginning with the seventy-first edition thereof.
[5] The deacons, church wardens, or other similar officers of
Churches or religious societies, and the trustees of the Methodist
Episcopal churches, appointed according to the discipline and usages
thereof, shall, if citizens of this commonwealth, be deemed bodies
corporate for the purpose of taking and holding in succession all
grants and donations, whether of real or personal estate, made either
to the and their successors, or to their respective churches, or to
the poor of their churches.
2. Said Board shall within five years from the date hereof build or
cause to be built upon said lot of land a suitable and convenient
church edifice, the cost of which shall not be less than fifty
thousand dollars.
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