When Mary Baker Eddy gave the Church of Christ, Scientist, its present form as The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, with membership open to Christian Scientists anywhere in the world, she made clear that it was a universal and not merely a local church.See Manual of The Mother Church 19:1-6, Art. XIV, Sect. 1, and Miscellaneous Writings 382:32-3;
However, she also made clear by the very title of her Church that physically, legally, and administratively it would forever be located "in Boston, Massachusetts." In taking the preliminary steps toward organizing the Church in 1892, she found it necessary to get a firm basis in Boston before proceeding to develop it as The Mother Church of a potentially worldwide organization with branches in many lands.
She was concerned at that time to form a Church with a Board of Directors which could hold title to the Church property in Boston as a recognized legal entity. This purpose was accomplished in September 1892 by a "Deed of Trust Conveying Land for Church Edifice," described also as a "deed of conveyance."See Man., pp. 128, 130;
