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Rh previous chapter how the founder of Christian Science solved the difficult problem of organization, and in these important amendments of the Manual is shown her wise provision for the harmonious government of the church, and the removal of a motive for religious pilgrimages to the Mother Church by advancing its form of Communion to the spiritual understanding of its gracious compact with the branch churches of the entire world.

It had been said to the author of this book by one of Mrs. Eddy’s very oldest loyal students, that the Leader would stand by her post until her work was done, that the world’s criticisms, the lawsuits of enemies, the burden of years, would not affect her to drive her from the post of duty until her plans and purposes for the church in the world were accomplished. On September 28, 1910, Mrs. Eddy sent a notice to the Publishing House for insertion in three issues of the Sentinel:

I hereby announce to the Christian Science field that all inquiries or information relating to Christian Science practise, to publication committee work, reading-room work, or to Mother Church membership should be sent to the Christian Science Board of Directors of the Mother Church; and I have requested my secretaries not to make inquiries on these subjects, nor to reply to any received, but to leave these duties to the Clerk of the Mother Church, to whom they belong. &emsp;

During the year 1909 Mrs. Eddy’s labors for the Monitor and her attention to a heavy cor-