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402 and Health, which is soon to be issued, and in any subsequent edition thereof."

That these trustees should be called the Board of Directors and should constitute a perpetual body or corporation, fill ing any vacancy in their body by election, and filling it only with such an one as should be "a firm and consistent believer in the doctrines of Christian Science as taught in a book entitled Science and Health by Mary Baker G. Eddy, beginning with," etc.

That this board should elect the pastor, speaker, or reader, maintain public worship, and was "fully empowered to make all necessary rules and regulations" for this purpose.

That "the omission or neglect on the part of said directors to comply with any of the conditions herein named, shall constitute a breach thereof, and the title shall revert to the grantor, Mary Baker G. Eddy, her heirs and assigns," etc.

That "Whenever said directors shall determine that it is inexpedient to maintain preaching, reading or speaking in said church in accordance with the terms of this deed, they are authorised and required to reconvey forthwith said lot of land with the building thereon, to Mary Baker G. Eddy, her heirs and assigns forever, by a proper deed of conveyance."

At last, then, Mrs. Eddy had the Boston church where she wanted it; an institution without congregational government, controlled by four directors whom she should appoint and who should elect their successors at her suggestion; who were pledged to see that the church taught only what was in the seventy-first edition of Science and Health, and whatever Mrs. Eddy might please to put into any subsequent edition; and who, if they