What is the Manual of The Mother Church—The First Church of Christ, Scientist—to this Church?
It is a strong watchtower, staff and rod to its flock. Protector and guardian, it contains the governing rules for the entire Cause of Christian Science.
It is all this and more. Enunciating divine Principle's rule of right unfolded to human consciousness, the Manual is a vital part of Mary Baker Eddy's writings. She says of its By-Laws: "They sprang from necessity, the logic of events,—from the immediate demand for them as a help that must be supplied to maintain the dignity and defense of our Cause; hence their simple, scientific basis, and detail so requisite to demonstrate genuine Christian Science, and which will do for the race what absolute doctrines destined for future generations might not accomplish."Miscellaneous Writings, p. 148;
