From the Editors October 16, 1995 Issue

Two letters from Mary Baker Eddy on the subject of litigation

The Church History department at The Mother Church is publishing here, for the first time, excerpts from two letters by Mary Baker Eddy. The first excerpt is part of a letter she wrote to The Christian Science Board of Directors on February 18, 1903. In the letter, Mrs. Eddy counsels the Board members to retain the Church's original 1879 charter—and in no case to become involved in any kind of legal battle. The following paragraph appears in her letter:

I wish to be exempt from all legal obligations growing out of the situation of our church hereafter. I desire also to have The Mother Church strictly guarded against any false claims that may be brought by disloyal students or any litigation whereby either the ownership of the Mother church property can be forfeited or its present Tenets and Church Government be changed.

Mrs. Eddy wrote the following letter to the first manager of Committees on Publication, Alfred Farlow, on January 4, 1906. Mrs. Eddy tells Farlow in this excerpt, and in a number of other letters she wrote him about this time, to make sure that the corrective work in no way involve the Church in litigation.

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