PUBLIC TEACHERS

Applicants for admission to this industry must pass a thorough three days’ examination before the Board of Education “in Science and Health, chapter on ‘Recapitulation’; the Platform of Christian Science; page 403 of Christian Science Practice, from line second to the second paragraph of page 405; and page 488, second and third paragraphs.”

BOARD OF LECTURESHIP

The lecturers are exceedingly important servants of Mrs. Eddy, and she chooses them with great care.  Each of them has an appointed territory in which to perform his duties—­in the North, the South, the East, the West, in Canada, in Great Britain, and so on—­and each must stick to his own territory and not forage beyond its boundaries.  I think it goes without saying—­from what we have seen of Mrs. Eddy—­that no lecture is delivered until she has examined and approved it, and that the lecturer is not allowed to change it afterwards.

The members of the Board of Lectureship are elected annually—­

“Subject to the approval of Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy.”

MISSIONARIES

There are but four.  They are elected—­like the rest of the domestics —­annually.  So far as I can discover, not a single servant of the Sacred Household has a steady job except Mrs. Eddy.  It is plain that she trusts no human being but herself.

THE BY-LAWS

The branch Churches are strictly forbidden to use them.

So far as I can see, they could not do it if they wanted to.  The By-laws are merely the voice of the master issuing commands to the servants.  There is nothing and nobody for the servants to re-utter them to.

That useless edict is repeated in the little book, a few pages farther on.  There are several other repetitions of prohibitions in the book that could be spared-they only take up room for nothing.

The creed It is copyrighted.  I do not know why, but I suppose it is to keep adventurers from some day claiming that they invented it, and not Mrs. Eddy and that “strange Providence” that has suggested so many clever things to her.

No Change.  It is forbidden to change the Creed.  That is important, at any rate.

COPYRIGHT

I can understand why Mrs. Eddy copyrighted the early editions and revisions of Science and Health, and why she had a mania for copyrighting every scrap of every sort that came from her pen in those jejune days when to be in print probably seemed a wonderful distinction to her in her provincial obscurity, but why she should continue this delirium in these days of her godship and her far-spread fame, I cannot explain to myself.  And particularly as regards Science and Health.  She knows, now, that that Annex is going to live for many centuries; and so, what good is a fleeting forty-two-year copyright going to do it?