TY - BOOK AU - Eddy,Mary Baker TI - Manual of the Mother Church: The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts AV - BX PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Christian Science N1 - Date of origin: first chartered 1879, reorganized 1892; Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_of_The_Mother_Church; Release date is 2006-03-23; Originally published; Boston: The First Church of Christ, Scientist, 1908 N2 - "Manual of the Mother Church" by Mary Baker Eddy is a church governance manual first published in 1895. Functioning like a constitution, it establishes the structure and operations of The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston. Through 89 editions until 1910, Eddy created detailed by-laws governing church officers, practitioners, and members. The manual's unique "estoppel clauses" required Eddy's personal consent for certain decisions, creating lasting questions about church governance after her death and sparking significant legal controversies. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18039 ER -