A writ of injunction was issued under the seal of the said Court, restraining the defendant from directly or indirectly printing, publishing, selling, giving away, distributing, or in any way or manner disposing of, the enjoined pamphlet, on penalty of ten thousand [25] dollars. The infringing books, to the number of thirty-eight hundred or thereabouts, were put under the edge of the knife, and their unlawful existence destroyed, in Boston, Massachusetts. [30] It has been written that “nobody can be both founder and discoverer of the same thing.” If this declaration [Page 382.] were either a truism or a rule, my experience would [1] contradict it and prove an exception. No works on the subject of Christian Science existed, prior to my discovery of this Science. Before the publi- cation of my first work on this doctrine, a few manu- [5] scripts of mine were in circulation. The discovery and founding of Christian Science has cost more than thirty years of unremitting toil and unrest; but, comparing those with the joy of knowing that the sinner and the sick are helped thereby, that time and eternity bear witness to [10] this gift of God to the race, I am the debtor. In the latter half of the nineteenth century I discov- ered the Science of Christianity, and restored the first patient healed in this age by Christian Science. I taught the first student in Christian Science Mind-healing; was [15] author and publisher of the first books on this subject; obtained the first charter for the first Christian Science church, originated its form of government, and was its first pastor. I donated to this church the land on which in 1894 was erected the first church edifice of this denomination [20] in Boston; obtained the first and only charter for a metaphysical medical college,—was its first and only president; was editor and proprietor of the first Christian Science periodical; organized the first Christian Scientist Association, wrote its constitution and by- [25] laws,—as also the constitution and by-laws of the National Christian Science Association; and gave it _The Christian Science Journal_; inaugurated our denom- inational form of Sunday services, Sunday School, and so the entire system of teaching and practising Christian [30] Science. In 1895 I ordained that the Bible, and “Science and [Page 383.] Health with Key to the Scriptures,” the Christian Science [1] textbook, be the pastor, on this planet, of all the churches of the Christian Science denomination. This ordinance took effect the same year, and met with the universal ap- proval and support of Christian Scientists. Whenever [5] and wherever a church of Christian Science is established, its pastor is the Bible and my book.