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CHAPTER VII
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Leave it permanently.

To make sure that it will not go off some time or other when he is not watching, it will be safest for him to spike it.

If he should forget himself and think just once, the By-law provides that he shall be fired out-instantly-forever-no return.
"It shall be the duty of this Church immediately to call a meeting, and drop forever the name of this member from its records." My, but it breathes a towering indignation! There are forgivable offenses, but this is not one of them; there are admonitions, probations, suspensions, in several minor cases; mercy is shown the derelict, in those cases he is gently used, and in time he can get back into the fold--even when he has repeated his offence.

But let him think, just once, without getting his thinker set to Eddy time, and that is enough; his head comes off.

There is no second offence, and there is no gate open to that lost sheep, ever again.
"This rule cannot be changed, amended, or annulled, except by unanimous vote of all the First Members." The same being Mrs.Eddy.It is naively sly and pretty to see her keep putting forward First Members, and Boards of This and That, and other broideries and ruffles of her raiment, as if they were independent entities, instead of a part of her clothes, and could do things all by themselves when she was outside of them.
Mrs.Eddy did not need to copyright the sentence just quoted, its English would protect it.


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