That is, it does after we have read the rest of the By-law three or four times, wondering and admiring to see Mrs.Eddy--Mrs.Eddy--Mrs.Eddy, of all persons--throwing away power!--making a fair exchange--doing a fair thing for once more, an almost generous thing! Then we look it through yet once more unsatisfied, a little suspicious--and find that it is nothing but a sly, thin make-believe, and that even the very title of it is a sarcasm and embodies a falsehood--"self" government: "Local Self-Government.

The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, shall assume no official control of other churches of this denomination.

It shall be officially controlled by no other church." It has a most pious and deceptive give-and-take air of perfect fairness, unselfishness, magnanimity--almost godliness, indeed.

But it is all art.
In the By-laws, Mrs.Eddy, speaking by the mouth of her other self, the Mother-Church, proclaims that she will assume no official control of other churches-branch churches.

We examine the other By-laws, and they answer some important questions for us: 1.