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Not Dictatorial, Under Her JurisdictionIn the EXTRACT FROM A LETTER in Miscellaneous Writings, Mary Baker Eddy clearly states that the "Rules and By-laws in the Manual of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston . . . "were not arbitrary opinions nor dictatorial demands, such as one person might impose on another" (Mis 148: 8, emphasis added). "On the twenty-third day of September, 1892, at the request of Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, twelve of her students and Church members met and reorganized, under her jurisdiction, the Christian Science Church and named it, THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST" (Man 18:12, emphasis added). These two statements are not contradictory and an understanding of them is vital to proper governance of Mary Baker Eddy's Church. When one leaves all for Christ, as she did, the so-called person, or ego-powered personality, is humbled into compliance and total reliance on God's government. As a genuine Christian Scientist, she lived, organized, and founded under God's jurisdiction and so was enabled to exercise jurisdiction over the human condition and her spiritual sense of church. "Mind, supreme over all its formations and governing them all, is the central sun of its own systems of ideas, the life and light of all its own vast creation; and man is tributary to divine Mind" (SH 209:5). Behold, we are under God's jurisdiction, and must dictate what Love has in Mind! "With God, all things are possible." - Jesus EXTRACT FROM A LETTER IN "MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS"
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