Pastor and Preachers
In 1894, Mary Baker Eddy added the following ordination to the Manual of the Mother Church:
- I, Mary Baker Eddy, ordain the BIBLE, and SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, Pastor over The Mother Church,—The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.,—and they will continue to preach for this Church and the world.
In Christian Science churches worldwide, an explanatory note is read concerning the role of the Readers, the Bible, and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which begins with the sentence
- Friends: The Bible and the Christian Science textbook are our only preachers.
Specifically, Readers in Christian Science churches are neither pastors nor preachers.
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“Taking men into the union is just the kindergarten of their education and every force is against their further education. Men who live up those lonely creeks have only the mine owners’ Y.M.C.As, the mine owners’ preachers and teachers, the mine owners’ doctors and newspapers to look to for their ideas. So they don’t get many.”
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