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
3. When said church building is completed said Board shall elect a
pastor, reader or speaker to fill the pulpit who shall be a genuine
Christian Scientist; they shall maintain public worship in accordance
with the doctrines of Christian Science in said church, and for this
purpose they are fully empowered to make any and all necessary rules
and regulations.
4. Said Board of Directors shall not suffer or allow any building to
be erected upon said lot except a church building or edifice, nor
shall they allow said church building or any part thereof to be
used for any other purpose than for the ordinary and usual uses of
a church.
5. Said Board of Directors shall not allow or permit in said church
building any preaching or other religious services which shall not be
consonant and in strict harmony with the doctrines and practice of
Christian Science as taught and explained by Mary Baker G. Eddy in
the seventy-first edition of her book entitled "SCIENCE AND HEALTH,"
which is soon to be issued, and in any subsequent edition thereof.
6. The congregation which shall worship in said church shall be
styled "The First Church of Christ, Scientist."
7. Said Directors shall not sell or mortgage the land hereby
conveyed; but they shall see that all taxes and legal assessments
on said property are promptly paid.
8. Said church building shall not be removed from said lot except
for the purpose of rebuilding thereon a more expensive or a more
convenient structure in which said doctrines of Christian Science
only shall be preached and practised. If said church building is
removed for either of the purposes above set forth, any and all
tablets and inscriptions which are or shall be upon said church
building at the time of removal shall be removed therefrom and placed
upon the walls of the new edifice. If said building is burned, the
Directors shall forthwith proceed to rebuild the church.
9. Said Directors shall maintain regular preaching, reading or
speaking in said church on each Sabbath, and an omission to have
and maintain such preaching, reading or speaking for one year in
succession shall be deemed a breach of this condition.
10. Whenever said Directors shall determine that it is inexpedient to
maintain preaching, reading or speaking in said church in accordance
with the terms of this deed, they are authorized and required to
reconvey forthwith said lot of land with the building thereon to Mary
Baker G. Eddy, her heirs and assigns forever by a proper deed of
conveyance.
11. The omission or neglect on the part of said Directors to strictly
comply with any of the conditions herein contained shall constitute
a breach thereof, and the title hereby conveyed shall revert to the
grantor Mary Baker G. Eddy, her heirs and assigns forever, upon
her entry upon said land and taking possession thereof for such
breach.
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