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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Famous quotes containing the word preachers:
“Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)