“Let us endeavor to lift up our hearts in thankfulness to . . . our Mother in Israel for these evidences of generosity and self-sacrifice that appeal to our deepest sense of gratitude, even while surpassing our comprehension.”

A year or two later, Mrs. Eddy promulgated some By-laws of a self-sacrificing sort which assuaged him, perhaps, and perhaps enabled his surpassed comprehension to make a sprint and catch up.  These are to be found in Art.  XII., entitled.

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING SOCIETY

This Article puts the whole publishing business into the hands of a publishing Board—­special.  Mrs. Eddy appoints to its vacancies.

The profits go semi-annually to the Treasurer of the Mother-Church.  Mrs. Eddy owns the Treasurer.

Editors and publishers of the Christian Science Journal cannot be elected or removed without Mrs. Eddy’s knowledge and consent.

Every candidate for employment in a high capacity or a low one, on the other periodicals or in the publishing house, must first be “accepted by Mrs. Eddy as suitable.”  And “by the Board of Directors”—­which is surplusage, since Mrs. Eddy owns the Board.

If at any time a weekly shall be started, “it shall be owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist”—­which is Mrs. Eddy.

CHAPTER VIII

I think that any one who will carefully examine the By-laws (I have placed all of the important ones before the reader), will arrive at the conclusion that of late years the master-passion in Mrs. Eddy’s heart is a hunger for power and glory; and that while her hunger for money still remains, she wants it now for the expansion and extension it can furnish to that power and glory, rather than what it can do for her towards satisfying minor and meaner ambitions.

I wish to enlarge a little upon this matter.  I think it is quite clear that the reason why Mrs. Eddy has concentrated in herself all powers, all distinctions, all revenues that are within the command of the Christian Science Church Universal is that she desires and intends to devote them to the purpose just suggested—­the upbuilding of her personal glory —­hers, and no one else’s; that, and the continuing of her name’s glory after she shall have passed away.  If she has overlooked a single power, howsoever minute, I cannot discover it.  If she has found one, large or small, which she has not seized and made her own, there is no record of it, no trace of it.  In her foragings and depredations she usually puts forward the Mother-Church—­a lay figure—­and hides behind it.  Whereas, she is in manifest reality the Mother-Church herself.  It has an impressive array of officials, and committees, and Boards of Direction, of Education, of Lectureship, and so on—­geldings, every one, shadows, spectres, apparitions, wax-figures:  she is supreme over them all, she can abolish them when she will; blow them out as she would a candle.  She is herself the Mother-Church.  Now there is one By-law which says that the Mother-Church: