Article August 8, 1983 Issue

FROM THE DIRECTORS

An important court decision

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The Chancery Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey ruled on June 17, 1983, that a church group in Plainfield, New Jersey, from which branch church recognition was withdrawn on June 14, 1977, must stop using the name Independent Christian Science Church; using the terms "Christian Science" and "Church of Christ, Scientist" to identify their organization.

From 1907 to 1977 the Plainfield group had functioned under the name First Church of Christ, Scientist, Plainfield, as a branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

However, because of what The Mother Church found to be "conduct that grossly misrepresents the teachings of Christian Science in its community" beginning in 1975, branch church recognition was withdrawn. Many members of the Plainfield branch had earlier withdrawn from the local church for these same reasons.

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