Manual of the Mother Church Part 9

ACCORDING TO ARTICLE VI, SECT. 2

If you have not been taught by a loyal student who has taken a degree at the Ma.s.sachusetts Metaphysical College, or by one who has pa.s.sed an examination by the Board of Education, fill this blank.

FORM 2

One who is not a member of any church, excepting a branch church of Christ, Scientist, who loves Christian Science, and reads understandingly the Bible, and SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, by Reverend Mary Baker Eddy, and other works by this author, and who is Christianly qualified and can enter into full fellows.h.i.+p with the Tenets and Rules of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Ma.s.s., is eligible to members.h.i.+p.

_To The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Ma.s.s._

Gordon V. Comer Clerk.

I hereby make application for members.h.i.+p, and subscribe to the Tenets and the By-Laws of the Church. I have not studied Christian Science with a teacher, and am not a member of any church excepting _Second_ Church of Christ, Scientist, at _New York, N.Y._

I was formerly a member of the .............................

............ denomination, but have definitely severed my connection therewith.

FORM 2--(Continued)

Name .............. Miss Emma L. French .................

Street and Number ...... 293 Emerson St., ...............

Town or City ................ New York ..................

State ............................ N.Y. .................

Date ................. Jan. 2nd, 1901 ...................

I cordially approve the applicant.

(a) ............. Miss Mary E. Grant, C.S. ...............

Countersigned by .... James B. Brown, C.S.D. .............

DO NOT DETACH.

To the applicant: Name ....... Miss Emma L. French .......

Please fill out the Street and Number .. 293 Emerson St. ...

following for the use Town or City ............ New York .....

of the Treasurer of State ......................... N.Y. ...

the Church:

Present Order of Services in The Mother Church and Branch Churches

_Republished from the_ Sentinel

SUNDAY SERVICES

1. Hymn.

2. Reading a Scriptural Selection.

3. Silent Prayer, followed by the audible repet.i.tion of the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation.

4. Hymn.

5. Announcing necessary notices.

6. Solo.

7. Reading the explanatory note on first leaf of _Quarterly_.

8. Announcing the subject of the Lesson Sermon, and reading the Golden Text.

9. Reading the Scriptural selection, ent.i.tled "Responsive Reading,"

alternately by the First Reader and the congregation.

10. Reading the Lesson-Sermon. (After the Second Reader reads the BIBLE references of the first Section of the Lesson, the First Reader makes the following announcement: "As announced in the explanatory note, I shall now read correlative pa.s.sages from the Christian Science textbook, SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, by Mary Baker Eddy.")

11. Collection.

12. Hymn.

13. Reading the scientific statement of being, and the correlative SCRIPTURE according to I John 3:1-3.

14. p.r.o.nouncing Benediction.

The services should be preceded and followed by organ or piano music of an appropriate character in all cases where this is possible.

On the first Sunday of each month Article VIII, SECT. 1, _A Rule for Motives and Acts_, is to be read.

WEDNESDAY MEETINGS

1. Hymn.

2. Reading from the BIBLE, and correlative pa.s.sages from SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES.

3. Silent Prayer, followed by the audible repet.i.tion of the Lord's Prayer, its spiritual interpretation being omitted.

4. Hymn.

5. Announcing necessary notices.