The officials are all shadows, save herself; she is the only reality.

She allows no one to hold office more than a year--no one gets a chance to become over-popular or over-useful, and dangerous.

"Excommunication" is the favorite penalty-it is threatened at every turn.

It is evidently the pet dread and terror of the Church's membership.
The member who thinks, without getting his thought from Mrs.Eddy before uttering it, is banished permanently.

One or two kinds of sinners can plead their way back into the fold, but this one, never.