And copyrighted, of course.

It lifts the Mother-Church away up in the sky, and fellowships it with the rare and select and exclusive little company of the THE's of deathless glory--persons and things whereof history and the ages could furnish only single examples, not two: the Saviour, the Virgin, the Milky Way, the Bible, the Earth, the Equator, the Devil, the Missing Link--and now The First Church, Scientist.

And by clamor of edict and By-law Mrs.Eddy gives personal notice to all branch Scientist Churches on this planet to leave that THE alone.
She has demonstrated over it and made it sacred to the Mother-Church: "The article 'The' must not be used before the titles of branch Churches-- "Nor written on applications for membership in naming such churches." Those are the terms.

There can and will be a million First Churches of Christ, Scientist, scattered over the world, in a million towns and villages and hamlets and cities, and each may call itself (suppressing the article), "First Church of Christ.

Scientist"-- it is permissible, and no harm; but there is only one The Church of Christ, Scientist, and there will never be another.