Applicants who have not studied with Mrs.Eddy can get in only "by invitation and recommendation from students of Mrs.Eddy....
or from members of the Mother-Church." Other paragraphs explain how two or three other varieties of applicants are to be challenged and obstructed, and tell us who is authorized to invite them, recommend them endorse them, and all that.
The safeguards are definite, and would seem to be sufficiently strenuous--to Mr.Sam Jones, at any rate.

Not for Mrs.Eddy.She adds this clincher: "The candidates be elected by a majority vote of the First Members present." That is the aristocracy, the aborigines, the Sanhedrin.

It is Mrs.
Eddy's property.

She herself is the Sanhedrin.

No one can get into the Church if she wishes to keep him out.
This veto power could some time or other have a large value for her, therefore she was wise to reserve it.
It is likely that it is not frequently used.