To think--in the Supreme Church--is the New Unpardonable Sin.
To nearly every severe and fierce rule, Mrs.Eddy adds this rivet: "This By-law shall not be changed without the consent of the Pastor Emeritus." Mrs.Eddy is the entire Supreme Church, in her own person, in the matter of powers and authorities.
Although she has provided so many ways of getting rid of unsatisfactory members and officials, she was still afraid she might have left a life-preserver lying around somewhere, therefore she devised a rule to cover that defect.

By applying it, she can excommunicate (and this is perpetual again) every functionary connected with the Supreme Church, and every one of the twenty-five thousand members of that Church, at an hour's notice--and do it all by herself without anybody's help.
By authority of this astonishing By-law, she has only to say a person connected with that Church is secretly practicing hypnotism or mesmerism; whereupon, immediate excommunication, without a hearing, is his portion! She does not have to order a trial and produce evidence--her accusation is all that is necessary.
Where is the Pope?
and where the Czar?
As the ballad says: "Ask of the winds that far away With fragments strewed the sea!" The Branch Church's pulpit is occupied by two "Readers." Without them the Branch Church is as dead as if its throat had been cut.

To have control, then, of the Readers, is to have control of the Branch Churches.

Mrs.Eddy has that control--a control wholly without limit, a control shared with no one.
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No Reader can be appointed to any Church in the Christian Science world without her express approval.
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