The spiritual law and the legal guards that undergird the perpetuity of the Church of Christ, Scientist, and its form of government are discussed in detail in a pamphlet long available at Christian Science Reading Rooms. The pamphlet is titled "Permanency of The Mother Church and Its Manual."
The contents of this pamphlet show, through historical documentation, Mrs. Eddy's inspired intention that The Mother Church's form of government should continue unchanged after her passing. The pamphlet also tells of court decisions adjudicating "the legal validity of the church institution and church government which Mrs. Eddy designed and left to the members of her Church.""Permanency of The Mother Church and Its Manual" (Boston: The Christian Science Publishing Society, 1972), pp. 16-17.
It makes clear how our Leader, impelled by divine direction, organized the Church of Christ, Scientist, as an enduring and active institution that would help bring, demonstration by demonstration down the centuries, Christ's full salvation to all mankind.
